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My Tent Or Yours To Enter The William Hill Supreme Novices Hurdle At Cheltenham

Trainer Nicky Henderson says My Tent Or Yours will run in the William Hill Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival next month.

There had been talk that the six-year-old could go for the Stan James Champion Hurdle following his cruising to victory in the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury.

Connections however have decided to run him in the Supreme on March 12.

"He's very good and he goes for the Supreme," said Hend

Black Caviar Makes Winning Return To Racing

Black Caviar broke the Flemington track record as she returned from eight months off to record her 23rd win.

/ The unbeaten Australian mare had been on the brink of retirement after tearing a quadriceps muscle while running at Royal Ascot last June.

But she was a convincing winner of a race named in her honour - the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes - leading the field by two lengths.

"I am just so proud of her and my tea

Black Caviar Will Consider Ascot Return

Connections of Black Caviar will discuss the possibility of the unbeaten mare returning to Royal Ascot this year - although the chances are still "very slim" at this stage. The seven-year-old mare stretched her record to 23 without defeat at Flemington on Saturday, sparking debate over whether she would return to Berkshire. While connections were initially not too keen on the idea, they have now conceded it will at least be discussed - with the car

No Chasing At Taunton

An all-hurdle and bumper card has been arranged for Taunton on Tuesday after the chase events were abandoned due to waterlogging.

Bob Young, chief executive at Taunton, said: "Even though the course has only had a further 30mm of rain since February 7, it has still not fully recovered from the deluge it received prior to that. The hurdle course remains heavy, but the steeplechase course is still waterlogged in places.

"We are gra

Utopie Des Bordes Still Unbeaten In The Uk

Utopie Des Bordes retained her unbeaten British record in the Listed Jane Seymour Mares' Novice Hurdle at Sandown. Nicky Henderson's recruit was smart in France and went off the 11-10 favourite after opening her account at Doncaster. When Twigline crashed out at the last, Barry Geraghty's most significant danger was She Ranks Me, but she held her off bravely. Henderson said: "She's not very big but she can jump and she will go for the Albert Ba

Paul Carberry Back On Monbeg Dude

Paul Carberry will be reunited with Monbeg Dude in Saturday`s Betfred Grand National Trial after a merry-go-round of jockey bookings for Haydock's big race. The Irishman delivered one of his hold-up specials on Michael Scudamore's stayer to secure a famous victory over hot favourite and weekend rival Teaforthree in the Coral Welsh National. Scudamore was placed in a slightly difficult position as Carberry was initially unavailable, leaving him to bo

Injury Forces Tidal Bay Out Of The Grand National

Paul Nicholls has confirmed that Tidal Bay will miss both the Ladbrokes World Hurdle and the John Smith's Grand National.

The 12-year-old has returned to his brilliant best this season, winning a exciting renewal of the Lexus Chase over Christmas, and had been allotted what looked a favourable handicap mark for the Aintree spectacular.

Nicholls tho has now confirmed in his blog that a minor injury has been discovered. "He was out

The Racecourse Newbury - Free Ticket For British Showjumping / British Dressage Members Offer

The Racecourse Newbury in partnership with The Royal Agricultural College is holding an event called Greatwood Charity Raceday on Saturday 2nd march 2013, this is a day that alongside some of the season's best Jump racing, celebrates the beauty and versatility of the horse with a host equestrian demonstrations and an interactive riding zone. This fixture also recognises the fantastic work of racehorse rehabilitation charity, Greatwood. As in previous year

Tidal Bay Top Weight For The Grand National

Tidal Bay has been handed top weight of 11st 10lb for the John Smith`s Grand National at Aintree on 6 April.

The 12-year-old, trained by Paul Nicholls has been in great form this season, finishing second in the Hennessy at Newbury to Gold Cup favourite Bobs Worth and then winning the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown.

He has an official BHA mark of 171 but has been rated on 162 by official handicapper Phil Smith, who is allowed to use h

Black Caviar To Make Long Awaited Return To Racing

Undefeated sprinter Black Caviarwill make her long-awaited return to competition on Saturday at Flemington after nearly eight months since her nail-biting victory at Royal Ascot, in a race in Australia named in her honor, the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes. Thirteen horses have been entered in the 1,000-meter (about five-furlong) race to face the 6-year-old Bel Esprit mare, who will bid to win a record third straight Lightning and take her undefeated rec

Chases Abandoned At Wincanton

Wincanton will host an all-hurdles card on Saturday after announcing that the chases have been abandoned. The Somerset course will hold the final significant Champion Hurdle trial at the weekend, the Bathwick Tyres Kingwell Hurdle, but the entries for the Grade Two event have been reopened until Tuesday. Two handicap chases and a veterans' event, all sponsored by Bathwick Tyres, have been scratched and new hurdles races will replace them on ground w

Decrease in number of thoroughbreds in Britain

The number of registrations of thoroughbreds at the British racehorse organization BHA the past five years decreased by almost one third. In 2008, 5,920 foals registered in 2012 there were only 4,366. Major cause of the BHA awareness of overproduction. The surplus of horses is a major problem in the UK horse industry. The BHA reported that five years is busy horse owners and breeders aware of this problem. "The recession and market forces have played a ro

Flemenstar Not At His Best Claims Stephen Curran

Stephen Curran, owner of Flemenstar says his horse did not show his true form in his defeat to Sir Des Champs at Leopardstown on Saturday. Debate has raged for weeks about the best distance for the chaser trained by Peter Casey, who has looked so smart at up to two and a half miles, and connections were keen to give him another chance at three miles after his third-placed finish in the Lexus Chase over Christmas. Flemenstar was held up by Andrew Ly

Hurdles Cancelled At Lingfield

A plan to stage an all-chase and bumper card at Lingfield on Tuesday will be implemented after the hurdle races were abandoned due to waterlogging today.

The fixture will include the three chases already scheduled plus three additional chases and a National Hunt Flat race, which will be run on the all-weather track.

Clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross said: "We've had steady rain all day, at 2pm we'd had just over five milli

Plumpton Officials To Inspect

Officials at Plumpton have called an inspection for 8am ahead of Mondays meeting at the East Sussex venue following more bad weather. The going on the hurdle course is described as soft, heavy in places with the chase course soft. Twelve millimetres of rain had been recorded at 2.30pm on top of five millimetres overnight.

Silviniaco Conti Winner of Denman Chase

Silviniaco Conti maintained his unbeaten record this season with an emphatic victory in the Betfair Denman Chase.

The seven-year-old enhanced his claims for the Cheltenham Gold Cup with an accurate display of fencing in testing going.

Mail De Bievre made the running on his first run for over 500 days but Tom George's charge ran out of steam as the winner and The Giant Bolster came to fight out the finish from the third last.

Sir Des Champs Sees Off Flemenstar

Sir Des Champs won for the first time this season as he got the better of a thrilling match with Flemenstar in the Grade 1 Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown. Willie Mullins' seven-year-old, winner of the Jewson Chase at last year's Cheltenham Festival, pulled out all the stops to deny Peter Casey's stable star by a couple of lengths. The winner's stable-mate Quel Esprit jumped beautifully in front for the first circuit but he was under pressure afte

My Tent Or Yours Gamble Landed

My Tent Or Yours ran out an emphatic winner of the Grade 3 Betfair Hurdle, the most valuable handicap hurdle in Europe. Tony McCoy had to abandon plans of getting a helicopter from Warwick to Newbury but his journey proved to be more than worthwhile as his mount made light work of the opposition. Always handy off a strong early gallop, he merely had to push out the Desert Prince gelding to record a convincing victory. Cotton Mill travelled every

Simonsig To Miss Newbury Date

Arkle favourite Simonsig will miss his intended Cheltenham prep race after being ruled out of the Betfair Super Saturday Chase at Newbury.

Nicky Henderson's exciting grey was set to be a heavy odds-on favourite for Saturday's race but won't now run following an unsatisfactory scope.

Henderson told racingpost.com: on Thursday evening: "Simonsig's trachea wash result today was 95 per cent but we'd only run if it was 100 per cent.

Willie Mullins And Ruby Walsh Four Timer At Clonmel

There was a sparkling Clonmel four-timer for trainer Willie Mullins and jockey Ruby Walsh with a cosy success in the Surehaul Mercedes-Benz Novice Hurdle at Clonmel. The seven-year-old was last seen running second to At Fishers Cross in a Cheltenham handicap and he went one better under a confident ride. Inish Island, the 11-10 favourite, brushed aside his only serious rival, Venture Capital, in the closing stages to score by two lengths. Mu

Solwhit Not Certain For The Cheltenham Festival

Charles Byrnes has revealed it is 50-50 at best stable star Solwhit will line up in Ladbrokes World Hurdle at next month's Cheltenham Festival.

Despite being sidelined for the best part of two years by injury, the six-time Grade One winner has returned seemingly as good as ever this winter.

The nine-year-old ran a fine comeback race behind the top-class Bog Warrior at Punchestown in late December and took another step forward to

Silviniaco Conti Enters The Denman Chase at Newbury

Silviniaco Conti could face up to eight rivals in Saturday`s Betfair Denman Chase at Newbury.

The Grade Two three miler carries the name of his former Gold Cup and dual Hennessy-winning stablemate.

The race was reopened for 24 hours on Monday after failing to attract enough entries.

Silviniaco Conti has carried his top novice form of last season into the new campaign.

He claimed an easy win in the Charlie

Racing UK Offer Free Trial

Racing UK is offering a free one-month trial for any new subscriber to the TV channel (Sky 432). New subscribers will get all the vital build-up to the Cheltenham Festival, including Betfair Super Saturday at Newbury, the Kingwell Hurdle meeting at Wincanton, Haydock's Betfred Grand National Trial day and Racing Plus Chase day at Kempton. The offer is open until 8pm on Friday February 8 and only applicable to Sky subscribers. Visit www.racinguk.c

Mail De Bievre Booked For Denman Chase

Mail De Bievre, Tom George`s exciting French recruit is on course to debut on the British circuit in the Betfair Denman Chase at Newbury on Saturday. One of the real stars of the French chasing scene in the spring of 2010, the 8 year old has run just once since then in a hurdle race at Auteuil back in September 2011. George has been impressed with what the Cadoudal gelding has produced on his gallops at down farm this term "He's had a good preparat

Rock On Ruby Wins Listed Hurdle In Tragic Circumstances

Rock On Ruby went on to beat Countrywide Flame after a fatal last-hurdle fall from Darlan just as he was making his challenge.

The race turned completely at the final hurdle with Darlan travelling powerfully behind Rock On Ruby, who had been in front for most of the home straight. Jockey Tony McCoy had been keen to keep Darlan tucked in behind Rock On Ruby and Countrywide Flame for as long as he could with a strong wind gusting at Doncaster a

Overturn Makes It 3 From 3 Over Fences

Last season`s Champion Hurdle second continued his progression over the bigger obstacles with an easy victory in the two mile contest.

A straightforward looking task became even more so when Asaid, one of just three rivals in the race, wouldn`t move off the start but Donald McCain's nine year old was in a different class from his rivals.

Tetlami, ninth in last year's Supreme, had been expected to give him some competition having

Great Leighs Racecourse Set To Host Races In 2014

The owners of Great Leighs racecourse have submitted an application to host races, four years after its closure.

The Essex all-weather course was the first horse racing venue to open in Britain in 81 years when it put on its first card in April 2008. Owners MC Racetracks are hoping to hold 35 to 45 races per year from 2014.

"I think we're very close to seeing racing in about a year's time," chairman of the venue Keith Brown told

Another Win For Sizing Europe

Sizing Europe went off at odds of 1/8 in the Boylesports.com Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown today and duly abliged albeit with a slight scare. Things looked easy enough for the market leader when his rivals gave him a ten lengths lead at the start but by the third last Foildubh (9/1) had moved smoothly into his slipstream. Paul Carberry had yet to ask the eventual runner-up a question at that stage but just as Sizing Europe hit 30/100 in running,

Pique Sous Easy Winner On Flat Debut

Pique Sous went off at 4/7 and ran out an easy winner on his Flat debut in the Bookings At dundalkstadium.com Maiden at Dundalk.

Last season's Weatherbys Champion Bumper third warmed up for a possible tilt at the Cheltenham Festival in unusual fashion with a spin on the polytrack in the two mile contest.

Paul Townend was quick to get the grey across to the rails from his wide draw and settled the six year old in third, tracking t

Sandown Hurdle Decision Delayed

A decision as to whether the four hurdle races will be run at Sandown's meeting on Saturday has been delayed until Friday morning. Officials at the Esher venue have been given the flexibility by the British Horseracing Authority to put a final decision back until a further inspection at 8am after they looked at the track on Thursday afternoon. Should the hurdles course be declared unfit then a six-race all-chase card will take place. The hurdl

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Frankel set for first 2012 run in Newbury`s Lockinge Stakes

Frankel set for first 2012 run in Newbury`s Lockinge Stakes

Frankel glides to Queen Elizabeth II Stakes win (UK users only) Unbeaten Frankel looks set to open his 2012 campaign in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on 15 May. The colt, trained by Sir Henry Cecil and owned by Khalid Abdullah, was the first equine winner of the President's Award at the Horserace Writers and Photographers' Association Awards.

Belmont Stakes Contender Nehro to Undergo Surgery

Belmont Stakes Contender Nehro to Undergo Surgery

Nehro, the fourth place finisher in the June 11 Belmont Stakes, will undergo surgery for a nonlife-threatening injury likely sustained during the final jewel of the Triple Crown. The 3-year-old colt is scheduled to undergo surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, in Lexington, Ky., to remove a bone chip from his right front fetlock.

"We

Hurricane Fly and Binocular Set To Clash At Leopardstown

Hurricane Fly and Binocular Set To Clash At Leopardstown

Two former champion hurdlers look likely to clash at Leopardstown on Sunday, with Hurricane Fly and Binocular amongst six remaining possible runners in the BHP Irish Champion Hurdle.

The Willie Mullins-trained Hurricane Fly is going for a hat-trick in Ireland's feature hurdle race and has looked right back to his best this season in wi

Gamilati is to miss the Qipco 1,000 Guineas

Gamilati is to miss the Qipco 1,000 Guineas

Gamilati looks set to miss the race on May 6 after Godolphin on Monday said she had undergone surgery to have a chip removed from her near fore ankle.The UAE 1,000 Guineas winner has had two victories at Meydan this year but connections said she would take time out of training to recover from the operation.

Quoted on Godolphin's website, Si

Ruby Walsh Makes Winning Return To Racing After Injury

Ruby Walsh Makes Winning Return To Racing After Injury

Ruby Walsh, who fractured an ankle in a fall in the Galway Hurdle last month, had to work hard to get hot-pot, trained by Willie Mullins to the front in the Kerrymaid Hurdle.

Miley Shah looked like making all the running but he was far from fluent at the last two flights.

Rattan (4-9 favourite) met the last hurdle running

Somerset`s Daryl Jacob secures job with Paul Nicholls

Somerset`s Daryl Jacob secures job with Paul Nicholls

Daryl Jacob has been appointed as second stable jockey to Ruby Walsh at Paul Nicholls' Somerset stables. Jacob successfully deputised for Walsh after he broke his leg last November. And he is already third in the jockeys table, with six winners from 12 rides for Nicholls' Manor Farm yard, since the new season started on 24 April.

"I'm su

Niall Madden aims for National double

Niall Madden aims for National double

Jockey Niall "Slippers" Madden believes his mount Numbersixvalverde can become the first horse since Red Rum to win consecutive Grand Nationals. Madden steered the Irish horse to a six-length victory over the 2005 winner Hedgehunter in last year's big race at Aintree. And despite carrying 9lbs more in weight this time, the jockey believes the burde

William Muir Talks About Plans For Purr Along

William Muir Talks About Plans For Purr Along

Purr Along could have put herself in the frame for a trip to France in search of Group One success following her narrow defeat at Doncaster on Friday.

Trainer William Muir is considering the Prix Marcel Boussac for the filly who just lost out by a head to Certify after a ding dong battle in the Group Two May Hill Stakes over the straight

Bryan Cooper Dream Week Continues With Double At Wexford

Bryan Cooper Dream Week Continues With Double At Wexford

Jockey Bryan Cooper completed one of best weeks in his career by landing a double at Wexford on Sunday.

Cooper rode three winners at the Cheltenham Festival and was back tio winning ways closer to home.

Gates Of Rome came in at 5-2 for his first in the St Patrick`s Day Hurdle, winning comfortably from Salesin back in se

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The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kilograms) and fillies 121 pound

David Nolan Handed 10 Day Ban

David Nolan Handed 10 Day Ban

David Nolan has been handed a 10 day ban stewards at Ripon after they deemed him guilty of dropping his hands.

His ride, Petrol was 7/2 joint-favourite Petrol in the Eura Audit UK Selling Handicap and looked odds on for a win a furlong out.

Nolan eased up on his mount in the closing stages but was then caught and passed by Chanki

James Millman Signs Off With A Winner

James Millman Signs Off With A Winner

James Millman`s last ever ride was a winner as Ishi broke her maiden tag at Lingfield.

The 5/2 chance, trained by his father Rod, saved ground as she hugged the rail around the home turn and kept for his rider's urgings in the final stages as she held off the challenge of Island Express by a length and a quarter.

Millman, who par

Kilworth`s Adrian Heskin stars at Naas races

Kilworth`s Adrian Heskin stars at Naas races

SEVENTEEN-YEAR old talented teenager Adrian Heskin from Kilally Kilworth, showed star qualities at Naas races on Sunday last where he oozed confidence, on 12/1 chance Dancing Tornado, to easily win the € 25,000 Naas Supporters handicap hurdle over 2m 3f. Confidently ridden, he made significant progress into 9th four out, went 5th traveling well two

Imperial Commander Out Of The Betfair Chase

Imperial Commander Out Of The Betfair Chase

Imperial Commander will not run in thi weekend's Betfair Chase at Haydock after suffering a setback.

The 2010 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner hasn't run since being sidelined by injury in the Prestbury Park showpiece in March of last year, but trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies had been looking forward to seeing him return on Saturday for a race he w

















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