Former Group 3 and Listed winner Al Shabab Storm was purchased for 45,000gns in October last year and has proved another shrewd acquisition for Value Racing Club. The five year old, who joined Mick Appleby, won the Gosforth Park Cup at Newcastle off a mark of 98 in late June. Beaten less than a length in the Portland Handicap and Sky Bet Sprint Trophy at Doncaster and York respectively, he success...
Carlisle staged their first jumps season meeting of the season on Thursday and a healthy crowd was in attendance at the Cumbrian venue. The feature event was the rescheduled Listed Panoramic Hurdle which was transferred from Kempton Park and it produced a good spectacle with the improving Wilful getting the better of Grade 1 winning novice chaser Mirabad. Jonjo & A.J.O'Neill's winner won two v...
Champion trainer Dan Skelton has already unleashed some hugely exciting novice chasers this Autumn with Sinnatra and Kabral Du Mathan impressing on their fencing bows at Ffos Las and Perth respectively. Stablemate Talk To The Man looked cut from similar cloth when winning the two and a half miles beginners chase at Worcester on Wednesday. The Walk In The Park gelding won twice over hurdles for Pau...
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The Top 40 Prospects in OJA is due to have a couple of runners over the next few days and I am very much looking forw...
Talk of New York gained his first Group 1 win in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on champions day on Saturday. Charlie Appleby and his team have done an outstanding job with the Wootton Bassett colt throughout 2026 gradually stepping him up in class and their decision to supplement him was fully vindicated as he beat a high-class field by upwards of a length and a quarter. William Buick's m...
Ffos Las hosted the chases which were due to take place at Chepstow last weekend and National Hunt enthusiasts were treated to a most impressive fencing debut by Sinnatra on Wednesday. Twice a winner over timber last season and rated 141, Dan Skelton's gelding was expected to improve for the outing but he proved far too strong nevertheless trouncing his four opponents by upwards of seven and a hal...
The 153 rated and Grade 1 winning hurdler Potters Charm was a workmanlike winner on his chasing debut at Worcester on Monday. The Valirann gelding jumped adequately without being spectacular before having to be pushed out to beat Jupiter Des Mottes by a length with the pair nearly fifty lengths clear of the third. The runner-up, who was having his first run for Dan Skelton, was rated twenty pounds...
It was a disappointing day for followers of Ahead On The Flat with the two selections in the Cesarewitch at Newmarket failing to trouble the judge. Highlighted in the Autumn Update, Cock And Bull wasn't good enough and came under pressure half a mile from home, while Mountain Road was given little chance being ridden in rear from the outset. Admittedly, Jim Goldie's runner wasn't aided by his wide...
There was some excellent racing on Friday with Group 1 action at Newmarket and a competitive card at York. Godolphin spent in excess of £27m on yearling at the Book 1 Tattersalls Sale during the week and their exciting juvenile Musical Times remained unbeaten following her hard fought win in the Fillies' Mile. Later on the card, Song of The Clouds won the Group 3 Pride Stakes with William Ha...
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My Racing TV colleague Gordon Brown was working at Ayr on Thursday and h...
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