#Mike Cattermole

The Cheltenham Festival doesn't exactly have a rich musical heritage. True, the Irish folk duo who played the nearby Prince Of Wales pub every evening for seemingly 30 years did perform a wonderful rendition of The Ballad Of Dawn Run twice-a-night. And twice-a-night ratings experts took exception to the line "And Wayward Lad, he knew he'd met the…

Ed de Giles: will appeal a result which was overturned at Chepstow on Friday Connections of Fitzrovia have decided to appeal against the decision of Chepstow stewards to reverse the placings in the track's opening race on Friday, having ruled that first-past-the-post Fitzrovia had intimidated Greg The Great on the way to scoring by a…

Sky Sports Racing's Mike Cattermole thinks the rescheduled Winter Oaks Trial at Lingfield on Thursday could unearth a good filly and has his eye on a lightly-raced contender from the Simon and Ed Crisford team. Lingfield stages another all-weather card on Thursday and easily the most significant and most valuable race is the Talksport Winter Oaks…

Mike Cattermole puts Chepstow's feature contest, the Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle live on Sky Sports Racing, under the microscope. The two-day Jumps Season Opener at Chepstow, all live on Sky Sports Racing, is a step in the right direction for proper winter jumping fans. The fixture is now widely regarded as the first taste of top-class National…

Presenter Mike Cattermole gives his verdict on every contender for Royal Ascot's curtain-raiser on Tuesday, live on Sky Sports Racing at 2.30pm. This will be the 15th year that the Queen Anne Stakes has opened the five-day Royal meeting. I don't think there is a racing fan out there who would want it any other way. It is a fabulous race, with a…

Presenter Mike Cattermole gives his expert verdict on the final British Classic of the year and Doncaster's Saturday feature, the Cazoo St Leger, live on Sky Sports Racing. As autumn arrives, so it's time for the world's oldest Classic, the Cazoo St Leger, first run in 1776 and pre-dating the Derby by some four years. Nobody can claim that this…