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All except Meetingofthewaters which I have already backed.

Minella Missile has been declared for the 2:20 race at Aintree on Friday over two and a half miles. Now rated 131 and his price is currently 33/1. Hansard - needs a strong pace apparently - is 20/1.

Dr TJ Eckleburg is one of 14 runners in the Red Rum Handicap Chase. Last year's winner Sans Bruit has been declared, and Matata may run instead in Friday's Melling Chase.

I've watched all three parts of a Star Sports Betting People Interview with author Chris Pitt on YouTube. He said that his book - A Long Time Gone ( on closed racecourses ) took around seven years to write. Another titled Go Down to the Beaten concentrates on the stories of the jockeys who...

Good point. Many Clouds won in a time under nine minutes which suggests that the going was good rather than the official good ( good to soft in places ). Royale Pagaille has reminded me a lot of Bristol De Mai who was another Haydock specialist in usually heavy ground. He tried the National...

3:25 Curragh ( 7f maiden ) - Radial Symmetry (33/1) for Jim Bolger and Gabriella Hill (10). Jockey's great-grandmother rode a few winners. A Dream To Share drops down in distance after finishing well over a mile two weeks ago.

I've heard of Tim O'Brien and was fairly sure he appeared on Transatlantic Sessions- recorded in Scotland - which used to be broadcast on Friday evenings on BBC4 over ten years ago. I've got a couple of cds from series 4 and he's not on those, but he features in series 3 from 2007 and series 6...

https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20423306 This may link into a report in the Equine Veterinary Journal titled Risk factors for fatality in jump racing Thoroughbreds in GB ( 2010 - 23 ) which was published on 12 December 2024. It concluded that reducing the risk of falling and racing...

And even he couldn't win both the Irish National and the Champion Chase ( 2nd to Pearlyman ) let alone do it in the same season like Flyingbolt. The only footage I have seen of Flyingbolt is of him splashing up the hill at Cheltenham to win the Massey Ferguson ( or Mackeson ) and his third...

Last week I went back through the Grand National winners from 2005 onwards, and noted that both Hedgehunter and I Am Maximus had won the Bobbyjo in their races prior to Aintree which could be a pointer to Nick Rockett this year. In the 19 GNs from 2005, six horses had won their previous race...

Horantzau d'Airy (66/1) - number 35 on the list of remaining entries- has been sold by the Riccis for 50,000g and has joined Michael Keady in Newmarket from Willie Mullins. A second to Flooring Porter in the Kerry National last September isn't a bad piece of form

I found Willie Mullins's chat with Matt Chapman on ITV Racing after the Ryanair Chase and he said that Fact To File would probably be a Gold Cup horse next year. " JP didn't want him to have a real hard race in the Gold Cup this year. Some times that can ruin a horse's career. " Was he thinking...

It will be more of a challenge to have fewer picks - three to five maybe - after the 48 hour declaration stage. And it will save time on typing the horses' names. Anything between 35 and 40 in the list of weights might get a run, and those from 41 onwards probably won't.

Brian Gleeson's name cropped up on another thread over the weekend and I remembered that his son rode the winner of the Cheltenham Bumper for JP a couple of years ago. I remembered that John Kiely was the trainer, but had to search for the name of the horse as it hadn't run much subsequently...

I forgot to watch, but read what had happened. The Mighty Celt won in Sue Magnier's colours and could be a jumps sire in a few years' time. Nietzsche Has ( already at stud ) won the 2024 race, and Pic d'Orhy a few years earlier.

It's a bit early to start a thread for the 2026 Triumph Hurdle, but Willie Mullins runs Dead Cert in the 2:50 at Auteuil today. Prix Rush - hurdle race over 1m 7f for 3yo colts and geldings unraced over obstacles. Home-bred, runs in Patrick's colours, and Rachael Blackmore - with a weight...

Saturday - 4:15 Thurles. Jimmy Neville Memorial Hurdle, 2m 6f level weights race. 6 runners including Asterion Forlonge, Hewick, Kilcruit and Amirite. Charles Byrnes runs Aodhan May ( receives the 7 pounds mare's allowance) which won 4 times last season, but hasn't quite managed to recapture...