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Any Second Now delights Ted Walsh with Navan win ahead of another crack at Grand National

Horse Racing News - 5 hours 56 min ago
Any Second Now tuned up for this third attempt at the Aintree Grand National by winning Navan’s Webster Cup for a second time.
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Never too old or too young to share a dream

Horse Racing News - Sun, 19/03/2023 - 02:30
It was a big Cheltenham for the little guy. A bunch of trainers who normally toil far from the limelight while the glittering prizes go elsewhere beat the big battalions to enjoy a finest hour in the Cotswolds.
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Cheltenham delivers again as human stories and equine excellence reign for top jockeys

Horse Racing News - Sun, 19/03/2023 - 02:30
Just the 359 days till Cheltenham 2024. If you don’t get the fascination, that’s fine, it’s not my job to persuade anyone. I wouldn’t go out the back door to watch the Super Bowl.
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‘Ice-cool’ Paul Townend delivers Galopin Des Champs to glory

Horse Racing News - Sat, 18/03/2023 - 02:30
From the threshold of disaster, they played chicken with the field.
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From comeback of the week to the star of the show: Michael Verney’s stand-out moments from Cheltenham

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 21:11
What a week it was at the Cheltenham Festival, with many more equine memories created that will live long in the minds of racing fans. Here are the stand-out moments as we look back at the winners and losers over a fascinating four days at the Cotswolds.
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Willie Mullins and Paul Townend secure top trainer and jockey honours at Cheltenham Festival

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 19:53
Galopin Des Champs’ Gold Cup victory proved the jewel in the crown as Willie Mullins and Paul Townend once again secured the top trainer and jockey honours at the Cheltenham Festival.
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Colm Murphy back in Cheltenham winner’s enclosure for first time in seven years with Impervious

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 17:40
Impervious battled to a well-earned success in the Mrs Paddy Power Mares’ Chase, as Colm Murphy returned to the Cheltenham winner’s circle.
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Premier Magic springs 66-1 shock with Bradley Gibbs in the Hunters’ Chase at Cheltenham

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 17:16
Prolific point-to-point winner Premier Magic, trained and ridden by Bradley Gibbs, sprang a 66-1 shock in the St James’s Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters’ Chase.
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‘There was pressure’ – Willie Mullins admits relief after Galopin Des Champs Gold Cup win proves him right

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 16:10
Willie Mullins might have won just about everything this great sport has to offer – but the most successful trainer in Festival history admitted to feeling a level of pressure he has never previously experienced ahead of Galopin Des Champs’ victory in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup.
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Cheltenham Day Four: Willie Mullins claims 1-2-3-4 in Triumph Hurdle as Lossiemouth claims victory

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 14:10
St Patrick’s Day got off to a raucous start for the legions of Irish racing fans at Cheltenham as Lossiemouth easily justified favouritism in the JCB Triumph Hurdle.
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Cheltenham 2023: Day Four race card, top tips from the track, TV details and everything you need to know

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 07:00
The big one. The Gold Cup. The blue riband of the Cheltenham Festival.
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‘I don’t think I was ever as involved in something in terms of emotion’

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:30
How did you get started in racing?
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Ahoy Senor can sneak home for the Scots in wide-open blue riband

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:30
The Boodles Gold Cup will celebrate its centenary next year but not since its inaugural running in 1924 – when Red Splash came in first – has it been won by a horse trained in Scotland.
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Perseverance pays off for Mark Walsh as Sire Du Berlais lands famous Festival treble

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:30
Mark Walsh didn’t know whether he would make the Cheltenham Festival a few weeks ago due to injury but his hard work was rewarded when steering Sire Du Berlais to a shock 33/1 success in the Stayers’ Hurdle yesterday.
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Rachael Blackmore proves class on and off the track as Envoi Allen soars again on big stage

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:30
Rachael Blackmore can do little wrong around Cheltenham but trainer Henry de Bromhead paid tribute to her exploits off the track having guided Envoi Allen (13/2) to Ryanair Chase glory yesterday.
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A few will take hammer and blowtorch to Gold Cup but it looks between Galopin Des Champs and A Plus Tard

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:30
Last year’s Gold Cup was more a ballet than a brawl, and it played right into A Plus Tard’s speedy hands. There is a time in every champion’s life when they have it all. That was A Plus Tard last year. It doesn’t look the same this year, and I expect a few horses to try and take a hammer and a blowtorch to this race.
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John McConnell on Cheltenham win: ‘I’ve been dreaming of this since I was five’

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:00
A critic once described Bundini Brown as someone who would “take the dimes off a dead man’s eyes and put back nickels”.
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Michael Verney’s Cheltenham Day 4 tips: Galopin Des Champs’ can gallop his way to Gold Cup glory

Horse Racing News - Fri, 17/03/2023 - 02:00
It’s all about the Gold Cup on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival as Galopin Des Champs bids to back up the hype by etching his place in racing history.
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Cheltenham Day Four: Wayne Bailey’s race-by-race guide as Galopin Des Champs can deliver in Gold Cup

Horse Racing News - Thu, 16/03/2023 - 20:00
I backed Willie Mullins’ Galopin Des Champs in the Turners Novice Chase last year at the short odds of 5/6 – and as he stormed clear in the final stages, I was sure the money was in the bag.
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