#Cottage Rake

Can Al Boum Photo join Golden Miller, Arkle, Best Mate and Cottage Rake to become only the fifth horse to win the Gold Cup on three occasions? It's the main event that everyone's talking about: the Gold Cup. Last year's winner, Al Boum Photo, will head to Cheltenham Festival on 19 March with just one start under his belt this season, having won the…

Trainer Willie Mullins' nine-year-old returned to action with a win on New Year's Day at Tramore. He is one of 17 Irish entries for the Festival feature Dual winner Al Boum Photo heads 41 entries for this year's Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup. Willie Mullins' chaser could join Best Mate, Arkle and Cottage Rake as the fourth horse to record a hat-trick…

Friday: Cheltenham Gold Cup, Cheltenham On a gleeful sun-kissed Cotswolds afternoon, Rachael Blackmore executed one of the most daring Gold Cup rides imaginable to avenge last year's narrow defeat and scale the sport's ultimate summit with an utterly mesmerising triumph on A Plus Tard. By the time they crossed the line, they had soared 15 lengths…

First published in the Racing Post on Sunday, April 29, 2018 Speaking to former Channel 4 Racing executive Andrew Franklin, Stan Mellor - three-time champion and the first jockey to ride 1000 winners over jumps - relives his most memorable races 1948 & 1961 Victory H'cap Chase Manchester Originally I wanted to be a professional show-jumper but my…

Recalling some of the greatest gambles in racing history. This week: Vincent O'Brien and a memorable coup Vincent O'Brien, one of the most revered names in horseracing, made his first imprint on the sport aged just 27 when he pulled off an astonishing coup by landing the Irish autumn double in 1944. It is a success that echoes down the decades. The…

Ahead of the highly-anticipated WellChild Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, we cast our eye over each runner including hat-trick chasing Al Boum Photo and Santini Al Boum Photo, the Willie Mullins-trained chaser bidding to join Cottage Rake, Arkle and Best Mate as a three-time winner of the Gold Cup, heads the dozen runners declared for Friday's…