Long Distance Hurdle plan for ever-popular Paisley Park

It is a wide open edition of the Stayers', Thursday's feature race at Cheltenham Fans watch the action on day one of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival Can a Grand National hero win the Stayers' Hurdle crown at Cheltenham? Can the former winner Paisley Park regain his crown at 12 years of age. Can Crambo provide Fergal O'Brien with his first festival…

The ITV cameras are at Newbury to catch five contests from the seven race card, including the feature Long Distance Hurdle (1500). First up, we'll give you a quick list of the horses we believe have the best chances for the races that are being shown on the telly, plus the two that aren't. If you want some more detail on why our tipsters have…

Day one of Newbury's Coral Gold Cup meeting on Friday begins with the much-hyped Jeriko Du Reponet making his debut under Rules (12.10) plus Grade One winner Hermes Allen having his first start over fences (1.50). The highlight, though, is the Coral Long Distance Hurdle (3.00) and if the Grade Two event is half as good as last year, when Champ and…

The Stayers' Hurdle is the feature race on day three of the Cheltenham Festival. It is a three-mile test of stamina over the New Course that will expose any chinks in the armour of contenders that lack the staying power to get up the famous hill finish. First run in 1912, the race has been part of the Cheltenham fabric in its current guise since…

Timeform's John Ingles highlights four talking points on day three of the Cheltenham Festival. Can Mighty Potter avoid the fate of recent favourites in the Turners Novices' Chase? Punters could be forgiven for thinking twice about supporting hot favourite Mighty Potter for the Turners Novices' Chase given the fate of odds-on shots in that contest…

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The Stayers' Hurdle (15:30) at Cheltenham on Thursday is available as a free Race Pass, which means logged-in customers can view all our premium comments and ratings. This is an open renewal of the Stayers' Hurdle (15:30), with four of the first six home from last year among the field of eleven, and while there are just the two home-trained…

ITV viewers will be treated to seven excellent races from across three tracks on Saturday afternoon. Four races will be shown live from Ascot, where the Ascot Chase headlines the action. We'll also enjoy the Grand National Trial and Rendlesham Hurdle live from Haydock, before heading over to Wincanton for the Kingwell Hurdle. I'm happy to take Bold…

Gold Tweet: winner of the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham Gold Tweet could bid to add the Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle to his shock victory in Saturday's Cleeve Hurdle, provided it fits in with connections' ambition to win the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris. Trained by Gabriel Leenders for Gregory and Ambre Vayre, who race the six-year-old under the…

Gold Tweet and Johnny Carron win the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham Saturday: Dahlbury Stallions At Chapel Stud Cleeve Hurdle, Cheltenham Emotional celebrations came thick and fast at Cheltenham on Trials day, but none was louder than the scream from Gabriel Leenders which welcomed his Gold Tweet back into the winner's enclosure after the Cleeve…

Cheltenham 13:20 - ENERGUMENE Cheltenham 13:50 - IL RODOTO Doncaster 14.05 - EPATANTE Cheltenham 14:25 - PROTEKTORAT Doncaster 14.40 - GRAND SOIR Cheltenham 15:00 - PAISLEY PARK Doncaster 15.15 - CAP DU NORD [Each-Way] Cheltenham 15.35 - CAN YOU CALL [Each-Way] *All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate…

Nicky Henderson's Champ was the standout name missing from the Stayers' Hurdle entries, with 28 runners in the Cheltenham Festival race at this stage. The 2020 RSA Chase winner will bypass Prestbury Park in favour of a trip to Merseyside for the Grand National meeting in April. After winning on seasonal return at Newbury, he was beaten by Paisley…

Paisley Park is reported to be in "great order" ahead of a fifth run in the Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Emma Lavelle's stable star Paisley Park won the Paddy Power-backed Thursday feature in 2019 and his name was among the 28 possible runners for the contest when the entries were released on Tuesday. Last seen defying the tight…

In many ways, it's an unsurprising rivalry. Both horses are solid top-level 160+ performers and both are 10-years-old. They have been trained 13 miles apart their whole careers. Both are at their best over three miles. Perhaps the only surprise is that it's only round five. Yet in other ways, you would never have called it. The Champ vs Paisley…

Champ pipped Paisley Park in a thrilling finish to the Coral Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury on Friday. The two 10-year-olds battled it out right to the line in the three-mile contest, with the strong-travelling, front-running Champ just getting the better of the popular former Stayers' Hurdle winner, who powered home under Aidan Coleman. Jonjo…

Lisnagar Oscar: winner of the 2020 Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle Lisnagar Oscar, who produced a huge upset in the 2020 Stayers' Hurdle, has been retired by trainer Rebecca Curtis, who hailed the nine-year-old for providing connections with that "most amazing day". He was a 50-1 shot in the Cheltenham Festival Grade 1 contest but powered clear in the…

Emma Lavelle's gelding has become a constant in the upper echelons of the staying hurdle division and has eight graded victories to his name. The winner of the 2019 Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, he has also landed two Long Walk Hurdles at Ascot, two Cleeve Hurdles at Cheltenham and a Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury. The latter race is…

Tadhg Creedon looks at the ten contenders who will contest the Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle, the day-three highlight at the Cheltenham Festival. Who wins the 2022 Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle at Cheltenham on Thursday? Below is our guide to the final field for the feature race on the third day of the Festival - a contest previously won by great…

Pats Fancy (left): finished a fine second to Bravemansgame at Newbury last month A decade on from her first Cheltenham Festival success with Teaforthree in the National Hunt Chase, Rebecca Curtis will lead the British challenge in the same race with the progressive Pats Fancy. The seven-year-old, who is no bigger than 10-1 and was last seen…

The nine-year-old was a shock 50/1 victor in the staying division at the Festival in 2020 but has failed to win a race since, enjoying no luck in his first three starts this term, including when pulled up in the Long Walk at Ascot. A return to Prestbury Park seemed to reignite his old zest, however, as the gelding travelled and jumped well under…

The Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle appears to be the main Cheltenham target for Champ, with Nicky Henderson pointing at the Cleeve Hurdle as his likely festival prep run. Plans for the ten-year-old had been unclear after he triumphed in the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot on his comeback this season. That run was intended as a warm-up before a return for…

Ascot stages the final major race meeting before Christmas and the card on Saturday afternoon is headlined by the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle. This race has been won by the very best staying hurdlers of this century - Baracouda (four times), Big Buck's (three) and Reve De Sivola (three) among them. Paisley Park has won two of the last three but Emma…

Steve Chambers previews Saturday's Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot, as Thyme Hill and Paisley Park do battle in a Grade 1 thriller, which should be a race that provides vital clues for the Stayers' Hurdle at the 2021 Cheltenham Festival... One of the premier staying hurdles on the National Hunt calendar, the Long Walk Hurdle has a glittering roll of…

Paisley Park should enjoy a victory stroll in the Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle (3.30) at Cheltenham today. Emma Lavelle's star captured Thursday's feature race 12 months ago and returns to the Festival on the back of a seven-race winning streak. "He's done everything right - he's barely foot a put wrong - and hopefully we can do it again," said the…