We’re keeping our powder dry just for now in the ante-post markets for the Cheltenham Festival but the hugely influential Tom Segal of Pricewise fame is getting stuck in and his latest punt is Planet of Sound for the Arkle.
There was plenty of 16/1 available for Philip Hobbs’ charge before Segal’s column but only Coral remain […]
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The heroes of an excellent weekend’s racing were Brave Inca and Big Buck’s on the hurdling front, while Joe Lively did the business for the Tizzard family in the Cotswold Chase - however none of them particularly appeal for the Festival.
Instead two of the beaten horses in their races may pay to follow, rather than desert.
Sublimity scoped […]
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It’s a cracking card at Cheltenham on Saturday as we build up to the greatest four-day festival in the whole wide world of racing - the heart is already starting to pound!
Trilaists for the March meeting abound but centre stage probably belongs to Punchestowns in the Cleeve Hurdle - Nicky Henderson’s charge is a short-priced favourite for the World […]
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The Cheltenham Festival Tips crew were watching today’s Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park but the biggest eye-catcher for us seems more suited to the Nationals of Aintree and Fairyhouse than to Prestbury Park in March.
Willie Mullins virtually owns the Champion Bumper at the Festival but Arbor Supreme, third in the Thyestes, looks a fascinating encounter for […]
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The three-time World Hurdle winner Inglis Drever has been retired by connections.
Howard Johnson’s inmate was injured at Newbury in November and a poor workout at the weekend made up the trainer’s mind to recommend retirement to owner Graham Wylie.
Never a particularly profitable horse for Cheltenham Festival Tips, we nonetheless had massive respect for his achievements, […]
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Pricewise’s Tom Segal tipped up Celestial Halo in today’s Racing Post and, not surprisingly, the generally available 14/1 soon disappeared - although you can still grab 12/1 if you click the banner below.
This was hardly a gamble of epic Pricewise proportions - most probably due to the fact that most punters seem to believe that Binocular […]
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He was impressive, wasn’t he … but maybe not that much to justify Paddy power’s decision to pay out ante-post bets on Master Minded for the Queen Mother Champion Chase in two month’s time.
Paul Nicholls’ charge looked supreme in sauntering away from his rivals in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday, hammering the useful tool […]
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