Perfect Day for Maguire and McCain
Donald McCain’s stable jockey Jason Maguire made no secret of his desire to be Champion Jockey at the start of the new National Hunt season and did his prospects no harm at Sedgefield on Tuesday, when...
View ArticleAnthony Knott Quits Racing
The worst kept secret in National Hunt racing was finally revealed, publicly, on Tuesday, with the news that Anthony Knott had agreed the private sale of Hunt Ball to American syndicate Atlantic...
View ArticleA.P. McCoy Returns on Thursday
Tony McCoy will have his first ride since being unseated by Quantitativeeasing at Cheltenham on April 18 on Jonjo O’Neill’s 5-year-old Church Field in the Lycett Insurance Brokers Novices’ Handicap...
View ArticleSprinter Sacre Top of Chasing Tree
Unsurprisingly, Nicky Henderson’s 7-year-old Sprinter Sacre, who barely came off the bridle in winning all five Grade 1 starts in the 2012/13 National Hunt season, including the Queen Mother Champion...
View ArticleRuby Walsh Quits Ditcheat
AsPaul Nicholls put it, “for personal rather than professional reasons” Ruby Walsh has decided to step down as stable jockey to the Ditcheat trainer to concentrate on riding in Ireland. Walsh’s...
View ArticleMcCoy Makes up for Lost Time
Tony McCoy, who won the British Jump Jockeys’ Championship for the eighteenth year in a row in 2012/13, didn’t have his first ride of the new National Hunt season until May 16, after suffering broken...
View ArticleMark Johnston Falls Foul of BHA
Middleham Moor trainer Mark Johnston had just one runner under National Hunt rules in the 2012/13 season but, after finishing second in a bumper at Wetherby in February, the rather unfortunately named...
View ArticleWeird Al Retired
Donald McCain’s 10-year-old Weird Al, who could only finish thirteenth of eighteen, beaten 60 lengths, behind Storm Survivor in the John Smith’s Summer Cup at Uttoexeter last Sunday, has been retired....
View ArticleColeman Off The Mark
Aidan Coleman, better known as stable jockey to National Hunt trainer Venetia Williams, was granted a licence to ride on the Flat earlier this month and has taken very little time to get off the mark....
View ArticleFollow Scott Strike-rate at Worcester – Daily Power Stat
A big day of National Hunt action this Thursday and that’s the code we are focusing on today as we head to Worcester. Plenty of leading yards have runners, but today we are interested in the Jeremy...
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