Gigginstown shutting up shop Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud is to wind down its operation over the next four to five years and is ceasing to invest in young stock. Eddie O’Leary, brother of...
Pat Smullen retires After recovering from pancreatic cancer, Irish champion jockey and Derby winner Pat Smullen announced his retirement from the saddle after taking medical advice. Only the day before his retirement he spoke...
“It’s not what it was” is an oft-heard comment about the bet365 Gold Cup run at Sandown on what is now the last day of the jump season. Indeed, many of those making the...
Grand Finale Sandown’s Jumps Finale fixture delivered the goods in terms of finishing the 2018/19 season with a flourish: ♦ Altior made it a record-breaking 19 successive victories when taking the bet365 Celebration Chase...
The dust had barely settled on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals having their maximum stake reduced from £100 to £2 when a couple of betting shop operators introduced new games that were so close in...
Winner's Enclosure & Steward's Room
by Mike Deasy · Published April 2, 2019 · Last modified April 4, 2019
WINNERS ENCLOSURE What’s been good in racing… Auxerre returning the shortest price Lincoln winner since the race was first run at Doncaster in 1965 when always looking like landing the 5/2 odds with jockey...
WINNERS ENCLOSURE What’s been good in racing in the past week… Noel Fehily bowing out of race-riding with a winner, when 1/3 favourite Get In The Queue won the bumper at Newbury, before attending...
As every business knows, or should know, it is easier and cheaper to keep your existing customers than it is to attract new ones. It is something racecourses must be aware of and there...
“It is what it is” said Rich Ricci, fronting up to grillings on TV at Cheltenham from Lydia Hislop and Alice Plunkett. But it shouldn’t have been. Just over a week before this year’s...
WINNERS ENCLOSURE What’s been good in racing in the past week… Willie Mullins finally landing the Gold Cup with Al Boum Photo, ridden by Paul Townend, the only one of Mullins’ three runners in...
