Author: Paul Davidson

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…

There is a decent looking Grade 3 Novice Chase on Sunday’s card at Punchestown with the heavily fancied A Plus Tard currently trading at odds of 6/5. The Cheveley Park purchase won with a stylish performance in a Beginners Chase at Naas last month, beating off Duc Des Genievres by…

The Lanzarote Hurdle takes centre stage at Kempton this weekend, but I like the look of one a little later on the card in the shape of the recent Ian Williams recruit SPEED COMPANY. A convert from flat racing, Speed Company has been steadily improving in each of his three attempts…

These Veterans’ chases have become extremely popular since they were first installed a couple of years ago, and none look more competitive than this Saturday’s affair with 17 runners set to line up. There are plenty in here that you can make a case for with former winners, Pete The…

The racing comes thick and fast over the holiday season, and the Welsh Grand National returns to it’s usual slot of the 27th December, having been rescheduled twice in the last three years. A typically gruelling renewal in what is always a bit of a bog down at Chepstow and…