#Don Alvaro

Kempton hosts an absolutely cracking card on St Stephen's Day as some of the UK's best National Hunt horses do battle. The King George is the feature race of the day at 2.30pm, but it's a cracking support card too with old rivals Champ and Paisley Park set to do battle again in the rearranged Long Walk hurdle before Champion Hurdle favourite…

It may be some way in the distance, but Paul Nicholls has admitted that he has got his eye on next season's Badger Beers Silver Trophy Handicap Chase for the in-form Don Alvaro (11/10 Favourite), who completed a course and distance double in some style at Wincanton on Thursday afternoon. The six year old has been something of a slow burner for…

Cornicello is well on top under Will Featherstone Thursday: Wincanton Jamie Snowden was spotted sprinting in the direction of the on-course bookies prior to Cornicello's success under Will Featherstone in the novice handicap hurdle for conditional and amateur riders, but it was not to have a flutter on his runner. "I was running to the start - I…

There are five meetings across the UK and Ireland on Thursday, four National Hunt and one Flat. Newcastle (12.00noon-3.23pm), Market Rasen (12.17-3.40), Wincanton (12.25-3.50) and Clonmel (12.42-3.53) stage the jump cards before the all-weather Flat meeting at Chelmsford (5.00-8.30) brings the curtain down. Thursday's nap has made a bright start to…

BAAEED is the star attraction on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday afternoon and he can end on a high with victory in the Group One QIPCO Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (4pm). But at cramped odds he is not really a betting proposition but his Willie Haggas' stable-mate SEA LA ROSA certainly is in the Group One QIPCO…

We bring you live action from Ludlow, Taunton and Newcastle this afternoon - and it promises to be a thrilling day of racing. Favourites won the first five races of the day at Ludlow, culminating in Java Point lifting a competitive renewal of the Forbra Gold Cup (3:00) for Tom George, seeing off the challenge of Head To The Stars, the winner of the…