Monthly Archive: February 2017

Just like the word ‘Festival’, the phrase ‘Gold Cup’ really means only one thing to a fan of horse racing at this time of the year – the pinnacle of the jumping game. Steeped in history and the ultimate test…
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With the Cheltenham Festival now only a month away, my penultimate look at the ante-post markets focuses on possibly the least loved of the championship races. Recent times have been dominated by specialist horses such as Baracouda, Inglis Drever, and…
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In this second of a four part series examining the ante post markets for the Cheltenham Festival championship races, my focus turns to the supreme test of jumping at speed. A glance over the roll call of honour down the…
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I didn’t watch it until Sunday night. Busy weekend, you see. But my wife had told me the previous evening; she’d heard it somewhere on the news. I couldn’t work out whether that was good or not, that a person…
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