Grand National: All The Runners
The inside track on every single horse1. Synchronised *** Recent Gold Cup winner has the class, the stamina and the services of AP McCoy, but does he jump well enough for this stern test? We’re not...
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Saturday April 14, John Smith's Grand National Aintree, 4.15PM, BBC1A Grand day out It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but the Grand National is undoubtedly one of the great spectacles of the UK...
View ArticleEditor's letter
Subtitle: A national dilemma Two more horses die in the world’s greatest horse race: so what now for the Grand National? Neptune Collonges, that grand old stager who for so long raced in the shadow of...
View ArticleHorse racing: QIPCO 2000 Guineas
Saturday May 5, Newmarket, Channel 4/Racing UK 3.10pm If there’s one certainty about this year’s 2000 Guineas, which looks set to take place on a soggy Newmarket track on Saturday, it’s that whichever...
View ArticleHorse play
What horse racing desperately needs, we were saying the other day, is some form of construct by which you can choose horses you think are going to win certain races, and then make that choice work to...
View ArticleHorse racing: JLT Lockinge Stakes, Newbury
Saturday May 19, Channel 4/Racing UK 3.40pm Last Saturday, the unbeaten Australian wonder mare Black Caviar continued her extended journey into horse racing history with victory number 21 of an...
View ArticleRoyal Ascot: top of the jocks
Subtitle: This year's Royal Ascot promises a fiercely competitive battle to be crowned the meet's top jockey. We look at six of the main contenders
View ArticleRoyal Ascot: expert view
Tuesday June 19 BBC and At the Races, 2pmPaul Kealy of the Racing Post picks out a few nags to keep an eye on... Royal Ascot is always special, but the 2012 jamboree will be doubly so because the two...
View ArticleTasty dish
Tasty dish Meet Black Caviar, who this Saturday bids to usurp our own dear Liz in becoming the real queen of Ascot. The six-year-old Aussie wondermare runs in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes on the final...
View ArticleHorse racing: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
Saturday July 21 Ascot BBC Two 4.35pm Three of the biggest names in flat racing have dominated recent runnings of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes – and they are set to do so once again...
View ArticleHorse Racing: Glorious Goodwood
Tuesday July 31 Goodwood Racecourse Channel 4 1.35pmNext Tuesday marks the start of the five-day festival of racing that is Glorious Goodwood. So we asked Paul Kealy, betting editor of the Racing Post,...
View ArticleHorse Racing: QIPCO British Champions Day
Saturday October 20 Ascot BBC One, Racing UK & At the races 1.30pm The sporting gods do like to offer up cruel twists of fate on occasion: witness Donald Bradman falling for a duck in his final...
View ArticleFrankel: The Greatest
As famous horses go, few will ever surpass the feats of the great Frankel. After a final victory secured a perfect 14 from 14, Sport looks back on a glittering career through the eyes of those who know...
View ArticleCheltenham 2013: AP McCoy interview
The most famous jumps jockey of them all may not ride as many winners as Barry Geraghty or Ruby Walsh at this year’s Cheltenham Festival, but AP McCoy has a job he wouldn’t swap for anything… Think of...
View ArticleJim Bolger: 'The Derby is the Derby. It's always very hard to win'
Saturday June 1 Investec Derby Epsom Channel 4 & Racing UK 4pmFive years ago, the multiple classic-winning Irish trainer Jim Bolger brought his then stable star across the Irish Sea to take his...
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