#Darver Star

Colin Tizzard can sign off in style with a win for Eldorado Allen in the Betway Bowl (2.55). The top trainer is soon to hand over the reins to his son Joe and the grey has a fine chance of victory at Aintree. He stayed on determinedly behind star chaser Allaho in Cheltenham's Ryanair Chase last month and is in an upward curve. Earlier, Pied Piper…

Run Wild Fred: declared for the BetVictor Ten Up Novice Chase at Navan on Sunday Leading National Hunt Chase contender Run Wild Fred is set to clash with high-class stablemate Farouk D'Alene at Navan this Sunday after featuring among declarations for the Grade 2 BetVictor Ten Up Novice Chase (4.05). Trainer Gordon Elliott had indicated earlier this…

Kempton's Ladbrokes King George (3.00) was won by the outsider Frodon, giving trainer Paul Nicholls his 12th success in the race Bryony Frost judged her fractions to perfection as Frodon served up a 20-1 shock in the 2020 Ladbrokes King George VI Chase. The pair have had a tremendous partnership in recent seasons and hit the heights in the festive…

Horse racing fans are in dreamland this weekend as the Dublin Racing Festival takes centre stage at Leopardstown. The cream of Irish national hunt racing will strut their stuff and pecking orders will be established with Cheltenham on the horizon. If you need an idea of how good the racing is today then you only to need to look at the second race…

Honeysuckle seems to have spent her whole career making history and yet another milestone will be reached if she makes it win number 17 here. Apple's Jade, Limestone Lad and Solerina all completed a hat-trick of Hatton's Grace Hurdle wins in their stellar careers, but none of them managed to win a fourth. Honeysuckle would break more new ground if…

Nicky Henderson's Constitution Hill is odds-on to take Honeysuckle's crown at Cheltenham in March following his Fighting Fifth romp last Saturday - despite the fact Honeysuckle is already a dual Champion Hurdle winner and yet to meet with defeat in 16 outings. The Henry de Bromhead-trained eight-year-old is tied with Limestone Lad, Solerina and…

Honeysuckle: heads a quality field as she bids for a fourth consecutive Hatton's Grace Hurdle Honeysuckle will face seven opponents when she bids to eclipse Limestone Lad, Apple's Jade and Solerina to become the first four-time winner of the Bar One Racing Hatton's Grace Hurdle (2.30) at Fairyhouse on Sunday. Henry de Bromhead's star mare will make…

The Henry de Bromhead-trained Honeysuckle will be bidding for an unprecedented fourth win in the Grade One showpiece on December 4, which would see her go one better than three-time winners Limestone Lad, Solerina and Apple's Jade. Rachael Blackmore's mount was last seen winning at Punchestown in April, after adding a second Champion Hurdle at…

Reigning champion Honeysuckle should justify long odds-on favouritism and extended her impressive, unbeaten record in the Chanelle Pharma Irish Champion Hurdle in Leopardstown today. The remarkable mare boasts an untarnished record in thirteen races, including nine at Grade 1 level, and is set to better Bula's record if she adds a third'Irish…

Just five runners went to post for the two-and-a-quarter-mile contest but it did not lack intrigue, with Darver Star - runner-up to Honeysuckle in the 2020 Irish Champion Hurdle and third in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham the following month - opposed by three-time Grade One winner Abacadabras. The Gordon Elliott-trained Abacadabras was the 4-6…

Abacadabras (left): having just his fourth start on Tuesday since April 2021 This really ought to be a straightforward assignment for Abacadabras. Only it isn't. The 2020 Supreme runner-up, who got within a head of Shishkin, won the 2021 Aintree Hurdle and retains a rating of 152. Darver Star is two years older than him, rated 3lb inferior to him…

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Darver Star has not been scratched from the the Stayers' Hurdle at Cheltenham, despite trainer Gavin Cromwell expressing concerns over whether he will stay the three-mile trip. The 10-year-old only lost out marginally in the valuable Weatherbys Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide Hurdle at Lingfield last weekend, finding Brewin'Upastorm a length and…

A 10-length winner at Leopardstown's Dublin Racing Festival last year, having rather scrambled home from Darver Star in 2020, Henry De Bromhead's superstar became the first horse to complete a hat-trick of wins in the Grade One February feature since Hurricane Fly. Honeysuckle was far superior to her four Sunday rivals on all known form and had…