#Irish Point

Willie Mullins and Paul Townend after Impaire Et Passe won on his hurdling debut at Naas in December Impaire Et Passe was cut for the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle over 2m and the longer Ballymore Novices' Hurdle over 2m5f after impressing at Punchestown. Which race at the festival do our experts favour? If he were mine it would be the Supreme…

Honeysuckle and Rachael Blackmore will aim to bounce back from her first defeat at Fairyhouse to win a fourth consecutive Irish Champion Hurdle This year's Dublin Racing Festival looks set to play host to a star-studded line-up after early entries for the two-day Irish calendar highlight at Leopardstown were revealed on Thursday. Eight Grade 1s…

Kilmaley native, Richard O'Brien, came in for lavish praise following the success of Paul Nolan's well-fancied newcomer, Cut The Rope (5/1), in the concluding four-year-old bumper at Naas on Sunday. O'Brien is a very successful trainer based in Ballingarry, County Limerick and it was on his advice that the Nolan camp purchased Cut The Rope, before…

Okay, it wouldn't be quite as dramatic as Lester Piggott at the 1990 Breeders' Cup. "I have decided to come out of retirement and ride for the short period while Jack [Kennedy] is on the sidelines," Russell said in his statement. But, with Kennedy breaking his leg for a fifth time at Naas on Sunday, the Cheltenham Festival, just two months away,…

The week just gone over jumps was a welcome pause after the unrelenting Christmas and New Year action, but it has nevertheless thrown up several Festival clues in the last few years. The feature event at Sandown, the Unibet Tolworth Hurdle, has gone to subsequent Sky Bet Supreme winners Constitution Hill and Summerville Boy in recent seasons, while…

Jack Kennedy: took a heavy fall from Top Bandit at Naas on Sunday X-rays have confirmed that Jack Kennedy has broken his leg for a fifth time following a fall from Top Bandit at Naas on Sunday, but Gordon Elliott is hopeful his number one jockey will be back in time to ride at the Cheltenham Festival. The 23-year-old leads the Irish jump jockeys'…

Not without late support but sent off at 100/30 as the Willie Mullins second-string behind stablemate Grangeclare West, Champ Kiely set off in front and barely saw another rival en route to winning Sunday's two and a half-mile feature. The seven-year-old son of Ocavango, who disappointed when only fourth as the odds-on jolly in the Royal Bond over…

Champ Kiely led from pillar-to-post to provide Willie Mullins with a ninth victory in the Lawlor's Of Naas Novice Hurdle. The seven-year-old was one of two runners for the champion trainer in the Grade One contest, with the previously unbeaten Grangeclare West the apparent first string as the 15-8 favourite. Champ Kiely won a Limerick bumper, a…

2m4f Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Beginners Chase (5yo+) Instit - 1pt Win - 2/1 (General) singleSelection My first two selections today come in the opening race at Naas. Willie Mullins was quite open ahead of Instit's seasonal reappearance that she would come on for the run and they would find a more suitable race for her over the Christmas/New…

We use the Timeform filter to pick out our two most interesting bets on today's racing. Our Filter tool lets you create your own list of horses to bet on based on the criteria you judge to be most important. Irish Point - 14:20 Naas ✔ Irish jumps racing ✔ Horse is open to improvement ✔ Horse is suited by the ground ✔ Horse is top-rated Irish…

Our presenter and Sunday regular Angus McNae put up four winners from five tips last week - including 8-1 Hector Javilex and 11-2 Marie's Rock - and bids t continue his fine start to 2023 with four more tips from Naas. Enjoy an excellent Grade One card live on Racing TV. Four winners and a second last week made it a really good start to the New…

The last seven favourites have been successful in this Grade 1, including Envoi Allen and Bob Olinger who went on to win the Ballymore, and Grangeclare West will be the one trying to continue that sequence. Willie Mullins has won this race eight times and had the option of running Boodles runner-up Gaelic Warrior, who won at Tramore by 86 lengths…

The Naas Novice Hurdle (14:20) on Sunday is available as a free Race Pass, which means logged-in customers can view all our premium comments and ratings. There are several promising types among the nine runners declared for the Grade 1 Lawlor's of Naas Novice Hurdle (14:20) which has been won by Gordon Elliott in four of the last six years. The…

Shishkin and Energumene produced the race of the season so far at Ascot on Saturday afternoon. The star duo more than lived up to their billing with a frantic and fast-paced battle that was in the balance all the way up to the final 50 yards. Here's our look at the weekend's racing with some possible ante-post considerations for the Cheltenham…

The New Year has certainly seen an upturn in the fortunes of the Tony Carroll string and that augurs well for the chances of Poetic Force in the 1.10 at Lingfield. He's comfortably the oldest in the field but his efforts at Wolverhampton before Christmas confirm that he's no back number just yet, beaten just a short-head and nose when third in…

TAHMURAS can provide Paul Nicholls with another noivce success at the top level in the Unibet Novices' Tolworth Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) (2.25pm) at Sandown Park on Saturday afternoon. Nicholls claimed the Challow Hurdle with Hermes Allen at Newbury last week and he is heading to the Cheltenham Festival with a big chance. Now Tahmuras can book…

Laura Morgan will ready promising novice chaser Loughderg Rocco for the Cheltenham Festival after his impressive success at her local track last week. And the burgeoning Leicester shire stable could be doubly represented at the Prestbury Park track in March if Notlongtillmay builds upon his impressive display over fences at Musselburgh on…

Happy New Year! I don't know about you, but I always forget to say that when I see someone for the first time since the change of the year. The period between Christmas and New Year (I got many an eye roll for calling it Twixmas!) blurs into a succession of days and as I was in bed before 9pm on New Year's Eve, 2022 rolled into 2023 almost…

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Only Money has a fine strike-rate for Chris Gordon in two-mile handicap chases over the last couple of seasons and he began the latest campaign with another couple of wins at Plumpton and Worcester under regular jockey Tom Cannon. He's been beaten off higher marks in better races since at Aintree and Newbury but he looks potentially well…

Jet Powered, second in the ante-post lists for the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle in March, continues his education at Newbury on Saturday. Nicky Henderson is keen not to ask too many questions too early of the Joe Donnelly-owned five-year-old, who was a very impressive 11-length winner on his hurdling debut at Newbury in November. He faces 10…

Brazil: produced a smart performance to beat Fil Dor in Grade 3 company at Naas A race that at its entry stage had the likes of Vauban, Pied Piper, Gaelic Warrior, Icare Allen and Irish Point has ended up in an unexpected match - the first two-horse race at declaration stage in Ireland for a decade. There have been nine match races across the last…

Home By The Lee proved his surprise victory at Navan last month was no fluke with a battling success in the Jack de Bromhead Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown. Joseph O'Brien's charge was a widely unconsidered 28-1 shot for the Grade Two Lismullen Hurdle in mid-November, but knuckled down to see off the strong-travelling Bob Olinger, with Ashdale…

They say that no success or defeat is necessarily final, but Honeysuckle needed to send a message to the precocious young pretender on her traditional Fairyhouse reappearance, and for the first time in her glorious career she was found wanting. Bidding for what would have been a historic fourth Bar One Hatton's Grace Hurdle, she led two out and…

DUNDALK: 4.15 Hero Of The Hour, 4.45 Dancing Tango, 5.15 Riccardi Medici, 5.45 Blue News, 6.15 Lizzy's Filly, 6.45 Magnanimous Mehmus, 7.15 Ivasecret, 7.45 Maccliff FAIRYHOUSE: 11.35 El Fabiolo, 12.05 Clonbury Bridge, 12.37 Marvel De Cerisy, 1.07 Jazzy Matty, 1.37 Peace Party, 2.07 Kilbree Warrior, 2.37 Memory Of Youth, 3.07 Polly's…

Another blank week of jumps racing has forced me, not unreluctantly I should add, to widen the scope of the column this week. The latest prolonged cold snap might not have been as severe as some of those in my living memory - December in 1981 in Newcastle in my second year at Uni living in a soon-to-be-condemned terrace in Elswick with three others…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented here online as a sample. Here he ruminates on a once familiar part of jumps racing in Britain and Ireland that is now almost extinct - subscribers can get more great insight from Martin every Monday to Friday. All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then…

2022-04-09Saturday ITV Racing Tips: Best bets for day three of the Grand National Festival Our five picks are listed below, with full race analysis further down the page, while the highly informative Aintree race card is just a click away in Planet Sport's Racing Live Centre. Selections: Stage Star each-way (14.25 Aintree) Edwardstone (15.00…

2022-12-07Thursday racing tips for Warwick, Newcastle, Chelmsford, Clonmel and Taunton Here's a quick bit of detail on our key selections for Thursday's action, you can find the full list of tips for every race across all the tracks at the bottom of the page. Dan and Harry Skelton rarely leave Warwick without a winner and Galia Des Liteaux can add…

Barry Connell's yellow colours are not new, they will be very familiar to most of you. What is new is the trainer the leading owner is using of late. Himself. It takes a lot of time, energy, motivation and money to go out on your own these days, but it will have been worth every cent and bead of sweat as he watched Marine Nationale surge late to…

If it is to be the beginning of the end for Honeysuckle, Sunday was a day to remember for hugely promising rider Michael O'Sullivan, who showed calmness beyond his years to get Marine Nationale home in front and claim a first Grade One win in the Bar One Racing Royal Bond Novice Hurdle - typically one of the most informative novice events in…

Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott have won the last eight runnings of the Royal Bond between them. Incidentally, the last trainer other than them to get in on the act was Philip Fenton in 2013 with The Tullow Tank, owned by none other than Barry Connell. Nine years later and Connell is trying to win the race as a trainer with the unbeaten and…

Fascinating insight from Barry Connell on Marine Nationale ahead of the Fairyhouse Winter Festival Owner-trainer Barry Connell is optimistic Marine Nationale can see off the powerful team of Willie Mullins in the Bar One Racing Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday. The champion trainer has saddled a record nine previous winners of the…

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 Winter Novices' Hurdle (14:20) at Sandown on Friday is available as a free Race Pass, which means logged-in customers can view all our premium comments and ratings. The Grade 2 Winter Novices' Hurdle (14:20) over nearly two and a half miles is the highlight on Sandown's card with all six of the lightly-raced runners having some sort of…

No horse in training has a higher Timeform rating than Shishkin, who earned a figure of 181 for his stirring success over Energumene in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot in January. That performance in a race for the ages took Shishkin's record over fences to seven from seven and, for some context on what he achieved on the form book, it earned him…

Champ pipped Paisley Park in a thrilling finish to the Coral Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury on Friday. The two 10-year-olds battled it out right to the line 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. Jonjo…

Get ready to place your bets and cheer your horses home - the 2022 Cheltenham Festival is here. Fans return to the four-day meeting after missing out last year, with sales hitting record levels. Over 60000 people will watch the thrilling sporting action from the grandstands during the week. The feature Gold Cup, sponsored by Boodles, is wide open…

Get the most interesting trends and statistics from today's horse racing with the free Stat Selector tips and best bets. Smart Stat: 25% - Harry Skelton's strike rate at Southwell Harry Skelton operates at an impressive overall strike rate around the 22% mark but that increases to 25% at Southwell where he has some interesting rides this afternoon,…

Galvin, Conflated and Fil Dor are among the big names set to be in action for Gordon Elliott over the festive period as the Cullentra handler shuffles his pack for Leopardstown's Christmas Festival. Elliott has enjoyed huge success at the four-day meeting in recent years, with Galvin's thrilling Savills Chase victory over A Plus Tard a clear…

channel to stay up to date on the latest in marketing Nico de Boinville Cheltenham rides are once again about quality over quantity at the Festival this year. That has been something of a hallmark of his career, so here we look at six of the best hopes he gets the leg up on. No British jockey apart from De Boinville is really in the hunt for the…

There is a trio of race meetings on Tuesday across the UK and Ireland, with jumps action holding court in the afternoon. Limerick (12.15-3.45) gets the ball rolling, soon joined by action from Sedgefield (12.25-3.25) and Southwell (12.35-3.35). Tuesday's nap started to get the hang of things last season over fences, remains very low mileage for his…

channel for our exclusive free betting tips, picks and offers. After a 62/1 double yesterday, the horse racing NAP of the Day on Wednesday, 16 November with SportsLens experts is Lookaway. He makes his bow over hurdles in the 2m 5f race at Warwick this afternoon (1:45). Next Best, meanwhile, is Storm Lorenzo in the long distance handicap chase at…

By Graham Clark and Nick Seddon Kieren Buckley did not hold back on the celebrations after enjoying a moment he had dreamt about since starting out riding when tasting victory at Cheltenham for the first time aboard Sweet Will (8-1) in the Markei Insurance Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle today, day one of The November Meeting. Out of luck on…

Kieren Buckley did not hold back on the celebrations after enjoying a moment he had dreamt about since starting out riding when tasting victory at Cheltenham for the first time aboard Sweet Will (8/1) in the Markei Insurance Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle. Out of luck on his 10 previous rides at the track, the 26 year old was not to be denied…

Willie Mullins: saddles Hubrisko The champion trainers of Britain and Ireland clash in an intriguing Grade 2 novice hurdle and, while Willie Mullins might be the king of the Cheltenham Festival, he has an ordinary record at the track away from the four big days in March. Since the start of 2012 Mullins has saddled only five winners from 37 runners,…

2022-11-09Thursday racing tips from Market Rasen, Taunton, Newcastle and Chelmsford We explain each of our main tips below and you can find a full list of selections for all races at the bottom of the page. Henry Daly's Precious Eleanor can kick off her season with a Listed win in the Bud Booth Mares' Chase at Market Rasen. The seven-year-old was…

First up a quick list of our hot tips for Friday's action, with the feature race the Grade 2 Ballymore Novices' Hurdle (1530). You can find more detail on each of our selections further down the page. Selections: 13:10 (Cheltenham) Enki Flacke 13:45 (Cheltenham) The Glancing Queen 14:55 (Cheltenham) Ballyandy 15:30 (Cheltenham)…