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The Cheltenham Festival - Champion Chase 2025

7 Mar, 2025

On Day Two of the Cheltenham Festival the nerves of Nicky Henderson will be jangling all afternoon in anticipation of Jonbon (5/6) taking his chance in the Queen Mother Champion Chase. The state of play is that it's essentially Jonbon versus a host of Irish contenders; talented contenders at that. A break-neck gallop from start to finish is assured, with Solness (7/1) likely to be pushing a fast pace from the off.Jonbon has looked bulletproof this year, arguably putting up a lifetime best performance when defeating Energumene (7/1) in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot. The only real chink in...

The Cheltenham Festival - Supreme Novices' Hurdle 2025

6 Mar, 2025

The curtain raiser of the Cheltenham Festival will be the Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Novices' Hurdle. The race has been aptly named to honour the late Michael O'Sullivan who sadly lost his life after a bad fall at Thurles. A tragic loss for the sport and it seems only right that the race he won two years ago, aboard Marine Nationale, carries the name of the young talent.Kopek Des Bordes (5/6) is likely to go off a short priced favourite for the race, but there's an abundance of unexposed talent in opposition. Kopek Des Bordes, trained by Willie Mullins, has won...

Today's Racing - 22/02/2025 - Saturday's Staying Chases

22 Feb, 2025

Today's Racing is all about the staying chases we get to enjoy at both Kempton and Newcastle. These long distance handicap races taking place over the larger obstacles are seldom uneventful and both races look super competitive on paper. In a game of limited certainties, one thing we can be sure of is that the winner of either race will be required to jump fluently and dig deep into their stamina reserves. The Eider Handicap Chase at Newcastle (14:10) is run over the marathon trip of 4 miles and a furlong. The progressive O'Connell (6/1) heads the market after landing...

Tomorrow's Horse Racing - 08/02/2025 - Newbury Super Saturday

7 Feb, 2025

Newbury's Super Saturday Card has been a successful stepping stone to Cheltenham Festival glory in the past and there are a number of contenders on Saturday's card who aim to enhance their credentials for this year's showpiece. Protektorat was third in last year's renewal of the Denman Chase before going on to claim Ryanair Chase glory at the festival on his very next start.We have insights and analytics available to weave a passage through Saturday's racecard and analyse some of the standout performers on show.Before his unfortunate injury on the gallops, Sir Gino was due to compete in open-company over...

Horse Racing Tomorrow - 04/02/2025 - Standout Stats

4 Feb, 2025

It's time to delve into some of the stand out stats on tomorrow's horse racing cards. We have racing on the turf at Fairyhouse, Ludlow and Sedgefield and all weather action at Kempton.Horse formTom Creen (11/8) - 14:35 Sedgefield. Tom Creen has an impressive 5 wins from his 10 starts at the course. He is top weight in the race tomorrow, having been moved up 3lbs from his win here on Boxing Day last year. Bebside Banter (5/2) - 16:05 Sedgefield. Bebside Banter is 3 from 6 at the track, placing in 5 of his 6 starts here. However, he...

Friday Lookahead - 30/01/2025 - Standout Stats

30 Jan, 2025

As we move into the weekend let's dive into some of the standout stats amongst tomorrow's racecards. We have the AW meetings at Dundalk, Newcastle and Southwell as well as turf action at Catterick and Lingfield.Horse FormBeat The Edge - Catterick 15:05. Beat The Edge is the only horse in this race with a course win to its name. Despite only winning in 1 of his 5 starts, he has placed in all 5 at the course and is currently trading at 4/1 to take the win in tomorrow's 3 mile trip.Champ Royal - Catterick 15:35. Champ Royal is unbeaten...

Recent Results - 28/01/2025 - Cheltenham Festival Clues

28 Jan, 2025

Glancing back over the racing results from the last few days, we can see there's been a number of Cheltenham Festival clues on both sides of the Irish Sea. This all started on Saturday at Cheltenham when some major British challengers staked their claim as leading contenders for the March showpiece. Willie Mullins then unleashed some ammunition of his own in Ireland. Let's get stuck into it.East India Dock backed up his previous Course win at Cheltenham and hosed up by 10 lengths in the JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle after being supported in from 6/5 to 1/2. The James...

Midweek Lookahead - 22/01/2025 - Standout Stats

22 Jan, 2025

The Horse's Mouth racecards offer a breadth of readily accessible form metrics. And these aren't confined to the form of the horse itself - our Trainer and Jockey metrics should feature in anyones researching repertoire. So let's take a look at some of the standout stats on tomorrow's racecards.Horse formWe have some impressive Course form on display in the 13:30 Wetherby tomorrow. No Risk Des Flos (7/2) has a 57% strike rate at the track, winning 4 of his 7 starts. Interestingly, 1 of these wins was in the same race last year, and the other was over the exact...

Tomorrow's Racing - 18/01/2025 - Ascot

17 Jan, 2025

Willie Mullins has sent Energumene (2/1) to Ascot for another bid at the Grade 1 BetMGM Clarence House Chase (15:32) as he aims to make amends for his close defeat at the hands of Shishkin in the 2022 edition of the race. This year he will face another Nicky Henderson superstar in the form of Jonbon (4/6). The pair require no introduction as they've both won multiple high profile Grade 1 races over the last few seasons. They're only split by 1lb on Official Ratings, it should be a thriller.Last month Energumene returned from 593 days off the track to...

Today's Racing - 15/01/2025 - Newbury Grosvenor Sport Raceday

15 Jan, 2025

There are six races on the card over at Newbury this afternoon, with a mixture of Class 1, 3 and 4 action.First up is the 13:25, a Class 3 Novices' Hurdle, with Jurancon (6/5), Kloth Of Utopia (2/1) and Big Ginge (5/2) heading the market. As shown on our THM Class Move Indicator, Jurancon and Big Ginge are both up in class today. Kloth Of Utopia is down in class having raced in Class 2 company last time out. The newly formed training partnership of Noel George & Amanda Zetterholm have only had 18 runners in Britain. They will be...

Today's Racing - 11/01/2025 - The Big Freeze Continues

11 Jan, 2025

Unfortunately the big freeze doesn't want to go away and consequently we have a reduced horse racing schedule today. Kempton, Warwick and Wetherby have all been abandoned with Fairyhouse, Ffos Las and of course the all weather meetings of Chelmsford, Newcastle and Wolverhampton still set to go ahead. With what's left, one of the feature races of the day is the 13:45 Fairyhouse, and it seems to be hotly contested. Hunters Yarn (4/1) for Willie Mullins currently heads the market and perhaps rightfully so. He has won 4 of his 10 starts on the ground, 2 of his 4 starts...

Today's Racing - 29/11/2024 - Newbury in November

29 Nov, 2024

There's a solid racecard at Newbury today and punters are trying to work out how well handicapped Galop De Chasse is in the Coral Handicap Chase (14:30). If we accept at face value his victory last year over Kandoo Kid at this Course and Distance, many believe he could easily be a stone ahead of the handicapper.Galop De Chasse and Kandoo Kid were both rated 123 when they clashed in a Handicap Chase last year, with the Venetia Williams charge just getting the better of Paul Nicholls' Kandoo Kid. It's worth noting that there was a yawning 30-length gap back...

Cheltenham November Meeting

16 Nov, 2024

Cheltenham truly is the home of jump racing and the 3-day November meeting continues in full force this weekend. The Saturday Racecard is flush with both Premier Handicap and Graded action; in this newsletter we'll begin to dissect both. It's a long road to the festival in March, but it starts here.Punters have always considered Course form at Cheltenham to be of upmost importance. Horses face a unique test here: the undulating nature of the track, big fences and a stiff uphill finish will push horses to their limits. The significance of Cheltenham Course form again came to the fore...

Exeter Haldon Gold Cup Day

8 Nov, 2024

High quality racing at Exeter will be shown live on ITV4 today, the feature race being the Haldon Gold Cup Handicap Chase (14:25). This is a tough early season handicap to unpick given the main protagonists are all returning from more than 200 days off the track. It's a small yet competitive field of five that go to post for the £60,000 prize and it's difficult to gauge who will be fully tuned up for their return. Punt responsibly.The feature race is preceded by the Future Stars Silver Bowl Novices' Chase (13:50) where we essentially have a match race between...

Ascot Champions Day Roundup

20 Oct, 2024

Qipco British Champions Day did not disappoint, living up to its name in spectacular style. All three of the big early favourites duly obliged and by 3:30pm bookmakers were on the ropes - a sight we all love to see. Kyprios, Kalpana and Charyn were all comfortable winners of their races, returning at odds of 8/11, 10/3 and 13/8 respectively. Accumulators were brewing.It was then time for the Champion Stakes, the race of the day. It had everything. Calandagan, the 6/4 favourite, missed the break and found himself trapped up the inside with nowhere to go. With favourite backers around...