Author: Paul Davidson

Now we all know the Midlands Grand National on this Saturday is in complete contrast to the week just experienced at The Festival. And no race portrays that better than the gruelling, four mile two furlong trip at Uttoxeter. Ms. Parfois could take all the beating based on her novice…

The Pertemps has produced some excellent winners over the years and generally they have gone on to do bigger and better things with the likes of Fingal Bay, Delta Work and Presenting Percy to name a few recent victors. Sire Du Berlais has been well-supported in the ante-post market since…

The Fred Winter is normally run at a frenetic gallop in what can often be an untidy looking race. Paul Nicholls and Gordon Elliot have dominated proceedings in recent seasons and the latter holds a strong hand this year with the Paul Nicholls fancy, Friend Or Foe, missing out at…

The first edition of handicap tips for the Cheltenham Festival this year features the Close Brothers Novices Handicap Chase on Champion Day. Last year’s winner Mister Whitaker runs in the Ultima earlier on the card and he came into this carrying bottom-weight of 11st 2lbs last season. Clearly he was…

Nobody should feel ashamed for wanting Cheltenham to arrive now and on the penultimate weekend before the festival there are plenty of horses being kept away from the action. There’s a nice looking Veterans’ Handicap Chase over at Newbury though with plenty of old favourites on show again like The…

The four-mile Eider Handicap Chase at Newcastle is normally run in an absolute bog. But not this year. This unseasonably quick ground will favour the stronger travelling types over the plodders, and that rules out quite a few who would have preferred more juice in the ground. The current jolly…

It’s great to have the racing back and there is plenty of action this Saturday afternoon with the feature race over at Haydock, the Grand National Trial, looking a strong renewal. The favourite is the improving Ramses De Teillee, who ran Elegant Escape to a close second in the Welsh…

Another top day’s racing will have been experienced at Leopardstown by 16:10 on Sunday afternoon and we have two selections in this ultra-competitive handicap. The first of which is ANY SECOND NOW at 8/1 who is currently 0-8 over fences. It might seem a daft selection with that track record,…

The Dublin Racing Festival hosted at Leopardstown was a massive success last year with two days of brilliant racing packed together. Day one’s feature is the Irish Champion Hurdle, which is set up to be an absolute cracker. But we fancy a couple in the Grade B Ladbrokes Hurdle over…

The connections of 2017 Grand National winner, One For Arthur, will be hoping for a safe round tomorrow as he continues his recovery mission having been off the track for so long and failing to finish on his comeback run. And the Peter Marsh looks a particularly competitive handicap to…