Horse racing enthusiast, owner and writer; betting systems developer, tester and champion; fan of AFC Bournemouth football club; and occasional internet marketer. Google+
This Sunday, 3rd April, The Curragh racecourse hosts its Mothers Day at the Races meeting, featuring the Group 3 Big Bad Bob Gladness Stakes and the Listed Geegeez.co.uk Alleged Stakes. The Curragh has been kind enough to offer all subscribers of both horse-racing.ie and geegeez.co.uk a special two for one offer for this Sunday. So [...]
Continue reading …
Horse-Racing.ie’s sister site, geegeez.co.uk, is delighted to announce its sponsorship of the Listed Alleged Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday 3rd April. And you could be there to celebrate this occasion too! Horse-Racing.ie is offering two lucky people the chance to bring themselves and a friend or loved one (maybe your mum, as it’s mother’s [...]
Continue reading …
Irish trained runners look to hold all the aces in the National Hunt Chase and there are sure to be some long faces among the visitors from across the Irish Sea if one of their contenders fail to land the prize. Trainer Gordon Elliott is one of the bright young things on the Irish racing [...]
Continue reading …
Statistics and trends are now part and parcel of the analysis of the Cheltenham Festival. Here are five that will give Irish supporters heart and five races where a strong challenge may well result. In a few of the handicaps at the Festival the Irish have a poor record, mostly the handicap chases but they really [...]
Continue reading …
After mulling over his three options over the last month, Irish trainer Mouse Morris has confirmed that his exciting young hurdler First Lieutenant will take his chance in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle, the second race on day two of the Cheltenham Festival 2011, writes Elliot Slater. Morris had entered his Grade 1 winner [...]
Continue reading …
Just as in any other walk of life there are some people worth listening to more than others, so when Nigel Twiston-Davies says he has a horse who could be exceptional, it’s probably worth your while sitting up and taking notice, writes Elliot Slater. On a day when he invited the racing media to take [...]
Continue reading …
Noel Meade’s leading Irish chaser Pandorama worked in fine style on Monday morning at Leopardstown racecourse as the build-up to his bid to rest the Cheltenham Gold Cup from the clutches of the home team builds to a crescendo, writes Elliot Slater. Meade expressed himself “absolutely thrilled” with the way the eight-year-old went, galloping the best [...]
Continue reading …
Former Irish Champion Jockey Paul Carberry could be an interesting outsider in the market for the top Cheltenham jockey. Carberry is renowned for his style and ice cool temperament in the saddle and he has long been considered as the man for the big occasion. He can already boast eleven Festival winners and is fancied [...]
Continue reading …
The 2010 Flat season in Britain will be remembered for many tremendous races involving star horses such as Workforce, Snow Fairy, Canford Cliffs and Frankel, but many will also remember the season for the titanic battle for the jockeys’ championship which went right down to the wire with the result in doubt even on the [...]
Continue reading …
Tim Vaughan is looking forward to running his progressive youngster Our Island in the Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle on the final day of the four-day Cheltenham Festival, following the six-year-old’s impressive winning effort at Newbury last week, writes Elliot Slater. Our Island was sent off a 5/1 chance for the Totesport Novices’ Hurdle on the [...]
Continue reading …
Veteran trainer Alan Bailey has always been a dab hand at laying a horse out for a handicap and he could barely hide his enthusiasm for the chance of his Lowther who is set to take his chance in the first big event of the 2011 flat season, the William Hill Lincoln, writes Elliot Slater. [...]
Continue reading …
There are no other races at the Cheltenham Festival that are dominated by the Irish more than the Festival Bumper and the Cross Country race. This year it looks as though that dominance is set to continue over the banks and hedges of the Cross Country race but judging by events so far on the [...]
Continue reading …
The Nicky Henderson-trained A Media Luz has always looked a filly of considerable potential and she finally got everything right at Huntingdon in midweek when nonchalantly disposing of decent opposition to land the Chatteris Fen Juvenile Hurdle and book herself a place at the forthcoming Cheltenham Festival, writes Elliot Slater. The four-year-old ex-French filly had [...]
Continue reading …
Pipe to saddle two in Totesport Trophy Last year’s narrow runner-up Ronaldo des Mottes is being lined up for another crack at the valuable Totesport Trophy Handicap Hurdle staged at Newbury on February 12, and is set to be joined in the feature two-mile event by stable companion Notus de la Tour, writes Elliot Slater. [...]
Continue reading …
Last year’s winner Joncol looks set to lead the home team into battle at Leopardstown on Sunday in what promises to be a fine renewal of the Grade 1 Hennessy Gold Cup, writes Elliot Slater. The Paul Nolan-trained eight-year-old got the better of a titanic struggle with his arch rival Cooldine in last year’s renewal, [...]
Continue reading …
The Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle is the last of three hurdles for the very best novice hurdlers and the most gruelling of the trio and this is the one that is most likely to go to a traditionally bred National Hunt type rather than a horse off the flat. The Albert Bartlett Hurdle could develop [...]
Continue reading …
Donald McCain thought he had everything going to plan as he prepares his unbeaten Peddlers Cross for a crack at the Stanjames.com Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on March 15, that was until Haydock’s Champion Hurdle Trial fixture was unexpectedly abandoned due to frost, writes Elliot Slater. There had been little, if any sign [...]
Continue reading …
County Durham-based trainer Howard Johnson will be hoping to hit the headlines for all the right kind of reasons when his enigmatic Tidal Bay bids for the Grade 2 Argento Chase at Cheltenham at the end of January, writes Elliot Slater. Johnson and Tidal Bay had a happy time of things at the fixture 12 [...]
Continue reading …
Recent Fairyhouse winner Golden Silver is more likely to bid for glory at the Cheltenham Festival in the Ryanair Chase than the Queen Mother Champion Chase, according to his trainer Willie Mullins, writes Elliot Slater. The talented Mansonnien gelding landed his second win from four outings so far this term when cosily accounting for Rubi [...]
Continue reading …
On a day that trainer Nicky Henderson will not forget in a hurry champion hurdler Binocular bounced back to something approaching his very best form to impressively land the Grade 1 William Hill.com Christmas Hurdle, the fourth leg of a sparkling five-timer on the card for his red-hot handler, writes Elliot Slater. Prior to the [...]
Continue reading …
