Twinspires Louisiana Derby (G2)
Twinspires Louisiana Derby (G2) EMERGING MARKET made it 2 wins from 2 starts for Chad Brown and took an enormous step forward from last month’s debut win at Tampa Bay Downs to win the Louisiana Derby. Despite being drawn widest in stall 9, he certainly received a lot of market support and having broken smartly […]
Fast Track Harry
Fast Track Harry Sometimes Racing can bring you back down to earth with a bump. Having tipped a couple of winners earlier in the week, I was feeling fairly confident about my sole selection on Newcastle’s Thursday evening card. For what it’s worth, Heavenly Heather ran a perfectly respectable race and clearly wasn’t suited by […]
Gaelic Warrior
Gaelic Warrior Gaelic Warrior (Paul Townend) wins the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham Racecourse 13.03.26 Photo © Francesca Altoft focusonracing.com “How did he get beat in the Fred Winter off a mark of 129?” Everyone else seems to want to insert that line into their assessment of this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner so […]
Cheltenham 2026 – The Novice Chases
Cheltenham 2026 – The Novice Chases There were 28 races at Cheltenham last week and that left me with a lot of racing to choose from for this week’s column. I watched it all back over the weekend and began to make copious amounts of notes, the vast majority of which will probably prove to […]
Ryanair Chase
Ryanair Chase A first winner of the week for Henry De Bromhead and it is a deserved Grade 1 success for Heart Wood, who was 2nd in this race to Fact to File 12-months ago. He’s had a different campaign this year and having won the New Year’s Day Chase at Tramore, he was kept […]
BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase
BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase Il Était Temps I have put the name of the winning horse at the top of this piece, but in reality I should probably have put the name of the jockey first. This was a riding masterclass from Paul Townend, who read the race and in particular the early pace […]
Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy
Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy Lossiemouth Will she? Won’t She? Should she? Yes. The debate that has raged on for the last 3 seasons is finally over and the question has been answered. Lossiemouth is a Champion Hurdler. This was a 4th victory at the Cheltenham festival for Willie Mullins mare, who must surely now […]
San Felipe Stakes Presented by DK Horse (G2)
San Felipe Stakes Presented by DK Horse (G2) Bob Baffert won the 10th San Felipe Stakes of his career on Saturday evening at Santa Anita, but not with the horse that the market expected. Brant was the talking horse from the Baffert barn coming into the race and he was supported into 2.25 favouritism at […]
Cheltenham Festival Data Clues 2026
Cheltenham Festival Data Clues 2026 The initial plan was for this to be a “horses to follow” piece and I will be adding some tips from the data on this blog in the next week, but the more I worked on the research and looked through the data, the more angles I found that I […]
Rebel’s Romance
Dubai City of Gold (G2) This is a very easy job on certain days. Sometimes you just look at the horses that need to be covered on the schedule and you know it will be an enjoyable watch. There are just a small handful of horses who can be considered to be genuinely 125+ performers […]