Kauto Star sets sights on historic third Cheltenham Gold Cup When the celebrations finally started to settle down after Kauto Star had recorded his astonishing fifth victory in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing day, thoughts turned towards the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. Kauto Star, the winner in 2007 and runner-up [...]

Sizing Europe – Queen Mother Champion Chase Preview The Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival is the 2-mile championship race for chasers and the 2012 renewal looks set to be a clash of the winners of the last two runnings. Sizing Europe took the prize back to Ireland in 2011, driven 5 lengths [...]

Quevega aiming for Cheltenham win number four When marking down the banker bets for the Cheltenham Festival in March 2012 one of the first names on every list will be Quevega in the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle. Willie Mullins will have his sights firmly set on a fourth consecutive win in the race that the [...]

Grandouet puts himself in Cheltenham Champion Hurdle picture Nicky Henderson is no stranger to the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle having nursed the great See You Then to three consecutive victories (1985-7) and subsequently turned out Punjabi (2009) and Binocular (2010) to lift the ultimate hurdling prize. At Cheltenham’s December meeting, Grandouet put his credentials on the [...]

More Horses To Follow for Cheltenham 2012 – November 17th The jumps season is now fully underway and starting to take shape. Much more sculpting will be done, but the month of November has already given us some fantastic performances. The Cheltenham Open Meeting usually throws up one or two horses to strongly note and [...]

Ante Post Betting Explained Ante post bets are bets placed in advance of the event – in horse racing this means bets placed prior to the overnight declaration stage. All the big races would be available well in advance of the day of the race as many punters like to pick a horse early in [...]