#Joyeux Machin

After a feast of festival horse racing action, there is much to take stock of for punters ahead of the big spring festivals. Even at this early stage, there are many hot favourites for the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. Constitution Hill has looked freakish and may even scare off two-time champion Honeysuckle in the Champion Hurdle, while Galopin Des…

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…

13:15 Newbury - Gallic Geordie 13:35 Warwick - Langley Hundred 13:50 Newbury - Martello Sky (each way) 14:10 Warwick - High Counsel (each way) 14:25 Newbury - Laskalin 14:40 Lingfield - Morgan Fairy 15:00 Newbury - Joyeux Machin 15:35 Newbury - Malinello *All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at…

The ITV cameras roll into Newbury on Saturday as the Christmas Racing Festival continues with five races in Berkshire, headlined by the Grade 1 Coral Challow Novices' Hurdle (3.00). It's one of the highlights of the season at the track and in recent years the race has produced top-class names such as Champ, Thyme Hill, Stage Star and this year's…

Newbury's Challow Novices' Hurdle (1500) is the highlight of Saturday's racing, but I'm sure we'll find some other winners to get those champagne corks popping later on in the evening. First let's have a quick list of Saturday's selections, you can find more detail on our highlighted horses further down the page. Happy New Year and the best of luck…

A few of these are struggling for form including Casa Tall, Courtland, Not Available and Mongol Emperor but Only Money won twice in the autumn and has placed in both starts since. GALLIC GEORDIE was closing on the leaders when slipping and falling two out at Lingfield 10 days ago and is handicapped to close in this, though Gamaret is a fascinating…

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…

Join our channel for our exclusive free betting tips, picks and offers. The 2022 Challow Hurdle trends can help you find the best profile of past winners of Saturday's big Newbury horse race. It's a prize the powerful Paul Nicholls yard have won for the last two years and look to have another leading chance with Hermes Allen. Plus, we've a stack…

Only one of Willie Mullins' seven Supreme Novices' Hurdle winners have won this Grade 1 contest en route. That was Appreciate It in 2020, who was sent off 8-11 favourite for the festival opener and Facile Vega is likely to go off at even skimpier odds in March should he make it six from six in impressive fashion here. The five-year-old has been…

Punchestown's John Durkan Memorial Chase card, frozen off last Sunday, is set to be run this Monday, eight days later. Thursday's Naas card has been re-scheduled and is set for Tuesday, Fairyhouse's Saturday card, defeat admitted on Friday morning, has been moved to Wednesday, and what was originally a week that was starved of Irish National Hunt…

2m1f (2m209y) Boylesports Best Odds Guaranteed Novices' Hurdle (Novices' Championship Hurdle Series Qual') (GBB) (Class 3) (4yo+) Pleasant Man - 0.5pt Each Way - 6/1 (General) singleSelection This horse was chucked in the Grade 2 Adonis on debut, which suggests to me that Nicholl's thinks a lot of him. He bled that day, so the run can be…

13:17 Fairyhouse - Benaud 13:37 Chepstow - Southfield Harvest 14:20 Sandown - Homme Public 15:15 Aintree - Langer Dan *All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change. Each and every day of the racing year we bring you a bumper NAPs Table to give you the inside…

Key horse racing results from cards at Kempton, Wetherby, Leopardstown and Limerick. Mullins' winners, at cumulative odds of 305-1, included 28-1 shot Tornado Flyer Ferny Hollow won the Racing Post Novice Chase at Leopardstown Ferny Hollow took charge at the head of the Arkle betting with a top level success at Leopardstown, part of a five-timer…

Shishkin and Energumene are on course for a mouth-watering rematch at Cheltenham on Wednesday with the pair among eight runners declared for the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase. The top-class duo served up one of the races of the season in January's Clarence House Chase at Ascot when the Nicky Henderson -trained Shishkin narrowly got the better…