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Andy Stephens identifies an 8-1 chance heading for the £75000 Peter Marsh Chase at Haydock on Saturday and has another quartet to monitor. Watch how they all fare on Racing TV 1.30 Haydock: Sky Bet Supreme Trial Rossington Main Novices' Hurdle Horse: Rare Edition Odds: a general 13-8 Rare Edition's owners seem resigned to their horses costing them…

Hermes Allen was a very easy winner of the Coral Challow Novices' Hurdle at Newbury, to give Paul Nicholls a third successive victory in the Grade One feature. Following on from Bravemansgame and Stage Star, Hermes Allen had to prove he could handle deep ground on this occasion. On paper at least, this year's renewal looked as strong as any in…

Edwardstone: last year's Henry VIII Novices' Chase winner returns to Sandown on Saturday in the Tingle Creek Chase The big races come thick and fast in the run-up to Christmas and the best of Saturday's action comes from Aintree and Sandown. Here we look at three of those races and what the results of the last ten years can tell us about what might…

Connections of Ahoy Senor are hopeful last season's top novice chaser will bounce back in the Boylesports Many Clouds Chase at Aintree on Saturday. He returns to the scene of his Grade One Mildmay Novices' Chase success on the back of a disappointing reappearance, when last of five to Bravemansgame in the Charlie Hall at Wetherby in…

ITV Racing have another excellent afternoon of National Hunt racing to look forward to on Saturday. Sandown hosts a top-quality card, with the Tingle Creek Chase headlining proceedings. We'll also enjoy four races live from Aintree, including the famous Becher Chase run over the Grand National fences. This is a really tricky one, for me, because…

Saturday's Coral Gold Cup (3.05), formerly known as the Hennessy Gold Cup and the Ladbrokes Trophy in recent years, is the flagship event of Newbury's jumps calendar - but who is the likeliest winner of the £250000 handicap based on previous trends? High-class horses such as Denman, Bobs Worth and Native River have won this race en route to…

The Grand National isn't the most prestigious horse race in the world for nothing. It's an incredibly challenging course, featuring 30 jumps (16 fences, with 14 of those being jumped twice) on the four-mile and two and a half furlong race. But, while safety improvements have been made in recent years, the Grand National remains a challenging task…

Rutgers returns to a place where it has some good memories from its last trip out. The Scarlet Knights (4-5, 1-5) face Michigan State (4-5, 2-4) on Saturday at Spartan Stadium, where they played the first game of head coach Greg Schiano's second stint to start the 2020 season. In front of an empty stadium at the height of the coronavirus pandemic,…

Tiger Roll has officially been ruled out of the Grand National as the dual winner was among 14 entrants to be scratched from the Aintree extravaganza on Tuesday. Owner Michael O'Leary is denying the 12-year-old a shot at equalling Red Rum's record of three victories in the world's greatest steeplechase after a row with the British handicapper over…

Harry Allwood shares his verdict on each contender in Saturday's bet365 Charlie Hall Chase, live on Racing TV, plus reveals who he is siding with. Vote for your favourite renewal of the Charlie Hall Chase from the three options above for your chance to win a pair of tickets to Cheltenham Gold Cup Day! We are in for a treat on Saturday with Grade…

The eagerly-awaited rematch will be the third time the duo have met over fences, with Bravemansgame winning the battle in last season's Kauto Star Novices' Chase before Ahoy Senor reversed the form in the Mildmay Novices' Chase. Bravemansgame is the 5/4 favourite with the sponsors to give trainer Paul Nicholls his fifth bet365 Charlie Hall Chase,…