Cricket

Nicholls hits another hundred with help of four-timer at Taunton

Summarized by: Live Sports Direct
 
Nicholls hits another hundred with help of four-timer at Taunton

Nicholls has now won 97 races this season. He has won 101 with the help of Harry Cobden. He sent a team of five runners across Somerset. They won the Broadway & Horton Cricket Club Novices’ Hurdle. Afadil won division two. Rare Middleton brought up the trainer's century with victory in the first division of the Invest Southwest Maiden Huddle at Taunton. The son of Camelot gave his supporters a fright by almost refusing at the the start, but he won comfortably by two lengths. Paddy Power cut Afadi's Triumph H hurdling odds to 16-1 from 33-2.

IN THIS ARTICLE
Iliko D'Olivate Paul Nicholls Rare Middleton
Play Diamond Empire Slot
Recommended Slot Game To Play: Diamond Empire Slot
MyBookie Casino Double Your 1st Deposit Up To $1000
Related
Cobden confident Bravemans can up his game for Gold Cup challenge

Cobden confident Bravemans can up his game for Gold Cup challenge

Harry Cobden is expecting Bravemansgame to peak at the right time, as the duo try to turn the tables on Galopin Des Champs in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup. Paul Nicholls' star staying chaser jumped the last matching strides with Willie Mullins' big-race favourite in the blue riband 12 months ago, but it was Galopin Des Champs who pulled out…
Horse Racing
Heltenham takes Greatwood Gold Cup honours

Heltenham takes Greatwood Gold Cup honours

A swift return to action proved no barrier to success for Dan Skelton's Heltenham in the BetVictor Greatwood Gold Cup at Newbury. Turning out just seven days after being beaten half a length into second place at Kempton, the seven-year-old was a 17-2 chance to go one better in the hands of Ciaran Gethings. Heltenham moved strongly onto the heels of…
Horse Racing
MyBookie
Bravemansgame in rude health ahead of Cheltenham Gold Cup

Bravemansgame in rude health ahead of Cheltenham Gold Cup

Last year's Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup runner-up Bravemansgame is approaching his peak in his bid to go one better. While he is among the outsiders this year having failed to win in three outings, trainer Paul Nicholls believes he has valid excuses for all those reverses. As he is a horse who tends to go well fresh, Nicholls has not run him since…
Horse Racing
Bravemansgame likely to head straight to Cheltenham Gold Cup

Bravemansgame likely to head straight to Cheltenham Gold Cup

The nine-year-old was a game runner-up behind Galopin Des Champs in last season's blue riband but has yet to get on the scoresheet this term. After finishing second in the Charlie Hall at Wetherby and Haydock's Betfair Chase, he filled the same position when trying to defend his King George crown at Kempton on Boxing Day. Nicholls said: "He'll go…
Horse Racing
BetOnline Casino

50% up to $1,000 Signup Bonus

Get the latest betting odds & lines for NFL Futures at BetOnline Sportsbook for betting on your favorite sport and snag a huge sign-up bonus.
IN THIS ARTICLE
Iliko D'Olivate Paul Nicholls Rare Middleton
Cheltenham top racing tip: Captain Teague to impose authority under Harry Cobden

Cheltenham top racing tip: Captain Teague to impose authority under Harry Cobden

15:30 Trustatrader Novices' Hurdle (Hyde Novices' Hurdle) (2 miles 5 furlongs) Paul Nicholls is expected to hit the ground running on the first day of the meeting, and after saddling the strongly-fancied Delta Work and Galvin in the previous race, he sends Captain Teague to post here as the hot odds-on favourite under Harry Cobden, who recently…
Horse Racing
late Paul Barber remembered as Knappers Hill carries silks to Rising Stars win

late Paul Barber remembered as Knappers Hill carries silks to Rising Stars win

Paul Nicholls paid an emotional tribute to the late Paul Barber on an excellent day for the champion trainer, as Knappers Hill became the first horse to carry his famous silks to victory since his death in June. The seven-year-old produced an impressive jumping display on just his second start over fences to land the Grade 2 Boodles Rising Stars…
Horse Racing
RELATED LOCATION
Country
Croatia
Paul Nicholls breaks three-year Cheltenham Festival duck with Stage Star

Paul Nicholls breaks three-year Cheltenham Festival duck with Stage Star

Paul Nicholls scratched a three-year itch as Stage Star produced a stirring display in the Turners Novices' Hurdle to end the Ditcheat maestro's Cheltenham Festival drought. Nicholls used to be cock of the walk in these parts and has walked away as leading trainer on six occasions, including every year between 2006 and 2009. Recent times have seen…
Horse Racing
Crambo hits back of the net for O’Brien in EBF Final

Crambo hits back of the net for O’Brien in EBF Final

Crambo came out on top after a pulsating finish to the EBF Final at Sandown. A dual bumper winner at Huntingdon last season, Fergal O'Brien's charge picked up where he left off when making a successful hurdling debut at Ascot in November. The six-year-old was pulled up in the Grade One Challow Hurdle at Newbury on New Year's Eve, but a subsequent…
Horse Racing
Crambo hits back of the net for Fergal O’Brien in EBF Final

Crambo hits back of the net for Fergal O’Brien in EBF Final

Crambo came out on top after a pulsating finish to the EBF Final at Sandown. A dual bumper winner at Huntingdon last season, Fergal O'Brien's charge picked up where he left off when making a successful hurdling debut at Ascot in November. The six-year-old was pulled up in the Grade One Challow Hurdle at Newbury on New Year's Eve, but a subsequent…
Horse Racing
RELATED CATEGORIES
Category Icon
Category
Cricket
Category Icon
Category
Horse Racing
Kempton on Saturday: Key quotes

Kempton on Saturday: Key quotes

Scriptwriter could cement his place as Britain's leading JCB Triumph Hurdle hope in the Coral Adonis Juvenile Hurdle at Kempton. Milton Harris won the Grade Two contest with Knight Salute 12 months ago and is treading the same path to the Cheltenham Festival with his classy recruit from Aidan O'Brien's all-conquering Flat string. A winner of his…
Horse Racing
Thunder Rock could step up in trip and avoid Cheltenham Festival

Thunder Rock could step up in trip and avoid Cheltenham Festival

Having won his first two starts over fences, he lost his unbeaten record to The Real Whacker at Cheltenham on his penultimate run and filled the same spot on his first test in Grade One company in the Scilly Isles Novices' Chase at Sandown. Thunder Rock, owned by the McNeill family and Ian Dale, had travelled well at the back of the seven-strong…
Horse Racing
Olly Murphy dreaming of Supreme glory with Chasing Fire

Olly Murphy dreaming of Supreme glory with Chasing Fire

Exciting prospect Chasing Fire is on course to appear next in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. The Olly Murphy -trained six-year-old took his record over timber to a perfect three with victory at Sandown on Saturday, to stay unbeaten in his career to date having also won a bumper and his point-to-point. Sent off the…
Horse Racing
Cheltenham Saturday review: Paul Nicholls at the double

Cheltenham Saturday review: Paul Nicholls at the double

Paul Nicholls and Harry Cobden completed a 19.63/1 double courtesy of Il Ridoto (9/2) and Springheeled Star (11/4). The former landed the Paddy Power Cheltenham Countdown Podcast Handicap Chase but only after a rare old tussle with 7/2 favourite Fugitif. Cobden was always travelling powerfully aboard the winner but so was Gavin Sheehan on the…
Horse Racing
Paul Nicholls brings up another century with help of Taunton four-timer

Paul Nicholls brings up another century with help of Taunton four-timer

Paul Nicholls broke through the century mark for the season as the champion trainer and Harry Cobden teamed up for a Monday four-timer at Taunton. The Ditcheat handler began the afternoon on 97 winners for the campaign and sent a strong team of five runners across Somerset. He was double-handed in the Broadway & Horton Cricket Club Novices' Hurdle,…
Cricket
Robin Goodfellow's racing tips: Best bets for Monday, January 9th

Robin Goodfellow's racing tips: Best bets for Monday, January 9th

Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Taunton, Ayr and Wolverhampton. TAUNTON ROBIN GOODFELLOW 12.55 Iliko D'olivate 1.25 Call Of The Wild 1.55 Rare Middleton 2.30 Afadil 3.00 American Sniper 3.35 Tintern Abbey 4.10 My Way GIMCRACK 12.55 Iliko D'olivate 1.25 Robin's Dream 1.55 Rare Middleton 2.30…
Horse Racing
Monday racing tips from Taunton, Ayr and Wolverhampton

Monday racing tips from Taunton, Ayr and Wolverhampton

Let's start with some detail on our top tips for Sunday's action, you can find a full list of selections for every race across all the tracks at the bottom of the page. Don't forget to check out the racecards, results and live odds in the Planet Sport racing live centre. Lady Adare can defy a lengthy absence and return with a victory in the Stables…
Horse Racing
Hermes Allen ready for Challow Hurdle challenge

Hermes Allen ready for Challow Hurdle challenge

Hermes Allen (right): bids to deliver Paul Nicholls a record fifth win in the Challow Hurdle Paul Nicholls believes Hermes Allen has the potential to follow the trajectory of King George star Bravemansgame as he bids for Grade 1 success in Saturday's Coral Challow Novices' Hurdle (3.00). The five-year-old dazzled in Grade 2 company last month at…
Horse Racing
Super start for Jet Powered at Newbury

Super start for Jet Powered at Newbury

Jet Powered followed in the hoofprints of some illustrious stablemates by making a sparkling debut under Rules in the Coral Bet Bundles'National Hunt' Maiden Hurdle at Newbury. A 350000 guineas purchase after winning an Irish point-to-point, the Jet Away gelding was the 8-13 favourite provide Nicky Henderson with a sixth victory in the last nine…
Horse Racing
Newbury Friday review: Champ beats Paisley Park in thriller

Newbury Friday review: Champ beats Paisley Park in thriller

Champ pipped Paisley Park in a battle royal in the Coral Long Distance Hurdle. The two 10-year-olds produced a thrilling finish 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, and was in front a stride or two after…
Horse Racing
Paul Nicholls four timer at Taunton Racecourse bring up his century

Paul Nicholls four timer at Taunton Racecourse bring up his century

CHAMPION trainer Paul Nicholls enjoyed a hugely successful afternoon at taunton races on Monday afternoon, notching up four winners to push his total of winners for the season past the 100 mark. Nicholls and Harry Cobden his stable jockey won the first four races as Iliko D'Olivate at 6-4, Cap Du Mathan at 6-4, Rare Middleton at 2-5 and Afadil 8-15…
Horse Racing
  • 18 plus
  • eCogra
  • Trusted Site
  • Game Care