Festival Preview Evenings 2018

[Diamond Geezer]

Saturday 17 February - Ascot
Venue: King Edward VII Admission, Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7JX
Start time: after racing
Panel: Paul Nicholls, Nick Luck and Barry Orr
Cost and Booking: Free with King Edward VII admission to the racing
Sponsored by: Betfair and Racing UK


Thursday 22 February - Wembley Park
Venue: Watkins Folly Bar and Restaurant, 1 Empire Way, Wembley HA9 0EW
Start time: 7.30pm
Panel: Richard Johnson, John "Shark" Hanlon, Dan Skelton, Rachel Blackmore, Gordy Clarkson
Cost and booking: £25.00 with complimentary nibbles. Call 0208 902 9944 or email watkinsfollypub@gmail.com
In aid of: Injured Jockeys Fund, St Luke's Hospice
Sponsored by: Paddy Power


Thursday 22 February - Huntingdon Racecourse
Venue: Huntingdon Racecourse
Start Time: 6.15pm
Panel:
Cost and Booking: £10 Book online here
Sponsored: Weatherbys


Wednesday 28 February - Emirates Stadium, London
Venue: Emirates Stadium, Hornsey Rd, London N7 7AJ
Start time: 7.30pm
Panel: Bruce Millington, Paul Nicholls, Gordon Elliott, Olly Murphy, Gary O'Brien, Kevin Blake, Barry Orr
Cost and booking: Live streamed on Betfair, Betfair's Twitter and Facebook pages.
Sponsors: Betfair, media partner Racing Post.
March 2018

Thursday 1 March - Hereford RacecourseVenue: Hereford Racecourse, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU
Start time: TBC
Panel: Richard Hoiles, Kerry Lee, Richard Johnson and Dean Goddard from myracing.com
Cost and booking: £10pp including sausage and mash supper. hereford-racecourse.co.uk or 01432 273560
Sponsor: myracing.com



Friday 2 March - Jack Berry House
Venue: Jack Berry House, Old Malton Road, Malton, YO17 7YE
Start time: 7pm
Panel: Brian Hughes, Andrew Thornton, Brian Ellison, Nicola McGeady, Niall Hannity
Cost and booking: £15. Refreshments available. Ring Jack Berry House on 01653 602090 or email jo.russell@ijf.org.uk
Sponsored by: Ladbrokes
In aid of: Injured Jockeys Fund


Monday 5 March - Bath Racecourse
Venue: Bath Racecourse
Start time: 7pm
Panel: Tony Ennis, Andrew Thornton, Charlie Morlock, Zac Baker, Tom Humphries, Dean Goddard
Cost an booking: Free. Book online prior to the event at: Bath Racecourse
In aid of: The Injured Jockeys Fund


Tuesday 6 March - London with Racing Breaks
Venue: M Bar, 2-3 60 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8HP
Start time: 6.30pm to midnight
Panel: Mick Fitzgerald, Richard Johnson, Bill Esdaile, Luke Tarr
Cost and booking: £25 seated table, steak, chips and a pint of Guiness. £10 standing, free pint of Guinness. Call 0207 157 1576 or email info@racingbreaks.com
Hosted by: Racing Breaks


Tuesday 6 March - Chester Racecourse
Venue: County Long Room, Chester Racecourse, Chester, CH1 2LY
Start time: 7.30pm
Panel: Oliver Greenall, Henry Daly, John Morris, Stewart Machin
Cost and booking: £20, £15 for annual members Book here 01244 304600
In aid of: North West Air Ambulance


Tuesday 6 March - Exeter Racecourse
Venue: Exeter Racecourse, Kennford,Nr. Exeter,Devon,EX6 7XS
Start time: After racing
Panel: Bryony Frost, Philip Hobbs, David Pipe, Tom Earle
Cost and booking: with racing only
Sponsored by: 188bet


Tuesday 6 March - Malton
Venue: Suddabys Bar and Pub, 12 Wheelgate, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 7HP
Start time: 7.30pm
Panel: Brian Ellison, Danny Cook, Michael Shinners, Bobby Beevers
Cost and booking: £10 (includes pie and pea supper). www.horsetownbeers.com
In aid of: Racing Welfare.
Sponsored by: Skybet


Tuesday 6 March - Evesham
Venue: The Wood Norton Hotel, Worcester Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4YB
Panel: Dr Richard Newland, Paddy Brennan, Harry Skelton
Cost and booking: £35 per person includes a 2-course meal, followed by tea and coffee. Book here
In aid of: St Richard's Hospice


Tuesday 6 March - Newcastle Racecourse
Venue: Newcastle Racecourse, High Gosforth Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE3 5HP
Start time: 6pm, 7pm start, with 9.30pm finish
Panel: Graham Wylie, Gordon Clarkson, Brian Hughes
Costs and booking: £15 including Sausage and Mash dinner. Does not include entry to the racing. Book here
Sponsored by: 188bet


Tuesday 6 March - West Berkshire Racing Club
Venue: Paddock View Room, 1st Floor, Berkshire Stand, Newbury Racecourse, Newbury, RG14 7NZ
Start time: 7.15 fron 8pm start
Panel: Lee Mackenzie, Jaime Snowden, Lizzie Kelly, Mike Cattermole, Charlie Mann
Cost and booking: £3 West Berkshire Racing Club members, £7 non members. More information contact the club directly



Wednesday 7 March - Lambourn
Venue: Oaksey House, Oxford Street, Lambourn, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 8XS
Start time: 7pm for 7.15
Panel: Nico de Boinville, Warren Greatrex, Chris Cook, Simon Clare, Jonathan Powell
Cost and booking: £15. Refreshments available. Call Oaksey House on 01488 674242 or email helen.sanderson@ijf.org.uk
Sponsored by: Corals
In aid of: Injured Jockeys Fund


Wednesday 7 March - Doncaster Racecourse
Venue: The Grandstand, Doncaster Racecourse, Leger Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB
Start time: Doors open 6.30pm, starts 7.30pm, Pie and pie supper 8.45pm, Finishes 10.30pm.
Panel: Ed Chamberlin, Oli Bell, Michael Shinners, Ben Pauling and Mark Howard
Cost and booking: £12. Book here
Sponsored by: Skybet


Wednesday 7 March - Sedgefield Racecourse
Venue: Sedgefield Racecourse,
Start time: 6pm, start time 7pm to 11pm
Panel: Brian Ellison, Danny Cook, Henry Brooke
Cost and booking: £10 including supper
Sponsored by:


Wednesday 7 March - Middleton Cheney
Venue: Middleton Cheney Sports and Social Club, Astrop Road, Middleton Cheney, OX17 2PG
Start time: Doors open at 7pm, starts 7.45pm
Panel: Richard Hoiles, Nicola McGeady, Charlie Longsdon, Tom Messenger, Paul Jones
Cost and booking: £10.Andrew Hook - 07900 692154
Sponsored by: Ladbrokes
In aid of: Transplant Sport UK


Wednesday 7 March - Cirencester
Venue: The Kings Head, 24 Market Place, Cirencester, GL7 2NR
Start time: 6.30pm
Panel: Aiden Coleman, Mattie Batchelor, David Bass, Fergal O'Brien, Luke Tarr. Ben Hastie
Cost and booking: £15pp includes welcome drinks and nibbles. 01285 700900
Sponsored by: Strutt and Parker
In aid of: The Injured Jockeys Fund


Thursday 8 March - Rawdon Cricket Club
Venue: Rawdon Cricket Club, 28 Larkfield Rd, Rawdon, Leeds LS19 6DZ
Panel: Danny Cook, Martin Dixon, Jonathan Doidge
Cost: £10. Purchase tickets from the bar before the event or contact Jonathan Doidge or James Doidge to secure your ticket.


Thursday 8 March - London Racing Club: Kensington, London
Venue: Kensington Forum (Holiday Inn), 97 Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 4DN
Start time: 7pm - 10pm
Panel: Lee Mottershead, Phil Smith, Lydia Hislop, Matt Tombs, Luke Tarr (Star Sports).
Cost and Booking: £8 LRC members, £15 non-members. Buy on the door, no pre bookings.

Thursday 8 March - Liverpool
Venue: The Railway Pub, 18 Tithe Barn Street, Liverpool, L2 2DT
Start time: 6.30pm
Panel: Joe Nordoff, Tom Bellamy, Jamie Bargary, Willy Twiston Davies, Bobby Beevers, Luke Tarr, Ryan Hatch, Vanessa Ryle, John Neild
Cost and booking: £10 including Scouse Supper. Contact 07811 268337, peter@transformsuk.com
In aid of: Stamp out Suicide
Sponsored by: Star Sports


Friday 9 March - Mayfair
Venue: 3 Deanery St, Mayfair, London W1K 1AX
Start time: 6pm
Panel: Davy Russell, Bill Esdaile, Luke Tarr
Cost and booking: Free limited places - email office@startsportsmayfair.com
Sponsored by: Starsports


Friday 9 March - Taunton Racecourse
Venue: Orchard Portman, Taunton Racecourse, Taunton, Somerset, TA3 7BL
Start time: 7pm. Doors open 6pm
Panel: TBC
Cost and bookings: Tickets are £10 in advance purchased via Book Here or (£12.50 on the door)
In aid of: the MH and WSH Point to Point


Friday 9 March - East Garston
Venue: East Garston Village Hall, Back Street, East Garston, Berkshire, RG17 7EX
Start time: Bar opens 7pm, starts 7.30pm
Panel: Ed James, Oliver Sherwood, John Francome, Noel Fehily, Colin Brown, Stan Moore, Pat Murphy and Jamie Snowden
Cost and bookings: Tickets £10 - please reserve. Contact Ed James edjames@sportingagenda.co.uk 01488 649770
In aid of: The Injured Jockeys Fund


Saturday 10 March - Sandown
Venue: Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey
Start time: After racing
Panel: Oli Bell, Nicky Henderson, Alan King, Emmet Kennedy and Richard Johnson
Cost: £5 (not including racing)
In aid of: Injured Jockeys Fund


Sunday 11 March - Cheltenham Racecourse
Venue: Cheltenham Racecourse, Prestbury Park,Cheltenham, GL50 4SH
Start time: 6.30pm, for 7pm start. Ends 10pm
Panel: Jeremy Kyle, John Francome, Fergal O'Brien, Ruby Walsh, Cornelius Lysaght
Cost and bookings: £6.00pp, annual members free. Book here
Sponsor: OLBG


Sunday 11 March - Bel and Dragon, Kingsclere
Venue: Bel and Dragon Pub, Swan Street, Kingsclere, Newbury, RG20 5PP
Start time: 7pm
Panel: Nico de Boinville, Andrew Balding, Kieran O'Sullivan
Cost and booking: £20 (including a chicken dinner). Call Tyron Mills on 07595 944524
In aid of: The Lewis Moody Foundation (Brain Tumour)


Sunday 11 March - Market Rasen, "The Big Tip Off"
Venue: Brocklesbury Suite, Market Rasen Racecourse, Legsby Road, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN8 3EA
Start time: 45 minutes after the last race, expected to be 5.10pm
Panel: Olly Murphy, Fergal O'Brien, Sean Bowen, Tom Earl, Gareth Topham and Steven Powell.
Cost and bookings: £28 (including racing), £15 (preview only), £13 (annual members). All include Winter Warmer dish. Book here



Sunday 11 March - Warwick Racecourse
Venue: Warwick Racecourse, Hampton Street, Warwick, Warwickshire. CV34 6HN
Start Time: 11.15am to 5.30pm
Panel: Rupert Bell, Dan Skelton, Olly Murphy, Jason Maguire
Cost and Booking: £85. Includes raceday marquee, drinks reception, two-course lunch and afternoon tea, course walk, auction prizes. Email Jo Payne for more details
In aid of: The Air Ambulance Service


Monday 12 March - Chelmsford City Racecourse
Venue: Chelmsford City Racecourse, Essex County Show Ground, Moulsham Hall Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 1QP
Start time:
Panel: Bob Champion
Cost and bookings: from £15. Book here

 

[Diamond Geezer]

AP added to the panel at Cheltenham on the Sunday before the Festival.

 

[Colin Phillips]

How many festival panels has he been on?

 

[Grasshopper]

Fu*ck AP........it's about time I was invited onto one of these, for a £250 fee and a nice steak dinner.

 

[edgt]

Kanturk Rugby Club have a Preview Night March 8 at 8.30.
Our own Baldeagle is organising.
Mick Winters, Tom Hogan, Ciaran Fennessey, Eugene O'Sullivan and Paddy Wilmott with MC Pat Healy it could be quite a night.
One of two Ricky Healy Appeal nights, the other is in Arches Bar Mallow March 1 with Ted Walsh among the panel.

 

[redundant pal]

Ciaran Fennessy had drifted off the radar, good to see him taking a few rides of late. Decent value for his claim.

Is Wilmott still in the game?!

 

[Grey]

The Kanturk panel looks as lively as any of them.

Nobody seems to be inviting Matt Chapman this year, so I'll have him on my panel, along with Grassy (£2.50 + a Pukka Pie, pal). Who else should we invite?

 

[Grasshopper]

Sold!

:lol:

 

[Colin Phillips]

If you can afford the 20 million baht, TANLIC would be good.

 

[Grasshopper]

You should really get both me and Tanlic on the same Preview night..........Ted Walsh and Matt Champman would look like kindergarten stuff in comparison.

 

[Grey]

Fine, you're both booked. Now who else?

 

[Colin Phillips]

You’ve just mentioned them, Chappers and Ruby.

You wouldn’t be able to find a big enough venue.

 

[TheBear]

You wouldn’t be able to find a big enough venue.

To accommodate their egos?


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[Colin Phillips]

Oooooh.......very sharp!

 

[Danny]

You should really get both me and Tanlic on the same Preview night..........Ted Walsh and Matt Champman would look like kindergarten stuff in comparison.

Book me a ringside seat for this one.

 

[archie]

http://sportsnewsireland.com/racing/racing_irish/list-of-cheltenham-preview-nights-2015/

 

[wilsonl]

Reminder for those that hadn't noticed in DG's list that the Betfair event, hosted by TH's favorite editor, is being streamed live tonight. In the past couple of years they've had some half decent price boosts during the evening.

 

[moehat]

Has anyone got a link to that one? And does anyone remember the one last year that Jamie Codd was on that had a live link; it was when he tipped Labaik and everyone laughed at him. Some really good tips came from that night, and it was also the funniest preview I've ever heard.

 

[JamesRB]

Has anyone got a link to that one? And does anyone remember the one last year that Jamie Codd was on that had a live link; it was when he tipped Labaik and everyone laughed at him. Some really good tips came from that night, and it was also the funniest preview I've ever heard.

it's next week

looks like they swapped codd out for barry this time

 

[moehat]

Thanks so much! By the way, has the betfair one been cancelled [just saw something on facebook to that effect?

 

[wilsonl]

Yep, the Betfair one has been cancelled due to weather and they're hoping to reschedule, possibly as a live stream event only.

 

[Grasshopper]

Are you sure it hasn't been cancelled because Millington was hosting, and everyone suddenly realised he's a gigantic ring-piece?

 

[hezz]

I'd be keen to go to the FF preview at The Goat, only up the road from my current digs.

But I can't stand the Kennedy fella. I can't listen to the FF Pod anymore because of him.

Blake and Keenan provide very good insights and opinions, but the other lad with his fake laughs and constant melodramatic good-natured opinions make my blood boil.

 

[moehat]

W Hill racing radio are doing one on Tuesday 6pm. So that's my Tuesday and Wednesday evenings sorted out for next week! Just need to buy a pie and a pint and put a glitter ball on the ceiling and pretend I'm at our old racing club previews at the Stirchley workingmens club#heaven

 

[bob]

Main points from Gordon Elliott at a preview in Leixlip.
Shattered Love could end up in a weak JLT
He wanted to run Dounikos in the 4 miler but the owners wanted to run in the RSA.
Jamie Codd booked to ride jury duty but might save him for the Irish national if Dounikos shows up here. [HNC]
Felix desjy will run in the bumper.
Davey R will ride the de plotting shed in the novice chase
Donagh meyler is qualified to ride in the Martin pipe and will ride one of his. Mentioned flawless escape, blow by blow/Dortmund park depending on weights.
J Codd will ride squouateur in the kim muir if he gets in.