#Leopardstown Christmas Festival

The treats are going to come thick and fast for racing fans over the Christmas week. They include Leopardstown's four-day Christmas Festival, which begins on St Stephen's Day (December 26). This is a superb meeting with a wide array of Graded contests, competitive handicaps and informative bumpers for punters to enjoy. Danny Archer looks ahead to…

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…

Emerging forces and established stars of the Irish National Hunt scene are set to come out and play at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival. The four-day racing bonanza takes place between Monday, December 26 and Thursday, December 29 and it is set to offer plenty of clues ahead of the big spring meetings. We're sponsoring all seven races on the…

Gaillard Du Mesnil: clears a fence on the way to Grade 1 win at Leopardstown Thursday: Neville Hotels Novice Chase, Leopardstown Willie Mullins believes Gaillard Du Mesnil would have little difficulty excelling over the National Hunt Chase distance, after his high-class six-year-old picked the perfect moment to make his breakthrough over fences in…

Racing tips for Thursday come from Kelso and Doncaster with the Christmas Festival continuing at Leopardstown. talkSPORT have gone through the race cards and form so you don't have to, with betting tips on some of the biggest meetings in the UK. There were a couple of surprises at Leopardstown on Wednesday's meetings but there might not be in the…

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…

The third day of the Leopardstown Christmas festival belonged to Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy, who landed a 101-1 treble courtesy of Sam's Choice, Maxxum and Conflated. Maxxum was cut to 4-1 (from 16) with Paddy Power for the Pertemps Final at Cheltenham after easily overcoming his rivals in the Pertemps qualifier. The five-year-old defied a…

Conflated put himself firmly in the Cheltenham Gold Cup picture with a dominant success in the Savills Chase at Leopardstown. The Gordon Elliott-trained eight-year-old was a surprise winner of the Irish Gold Cup over the course and distance last season and went on to run well before falling two from home in Cheltenham's Ryanair Chase before pushing…

Willie Mullins hailed a sensational six-timer at Leopardstown on Tuesday - with a 102-1 multiple that included a pair of Grade 1 wins - as one of the best days of his training career. Victory in the concluding bumper at Limerick with 11-8 favourite Largy Hill made it an across-the-card seven-timer on the day - a feat that matched his previous best…

Chacun Pour Soi bids to prove he is still a force to be reckoned with in the two-mile division in the Paddy's Rewards Club Chase at Leopardstown today. The Rich and Susannah Ricci-owned gelding has won six times at the highest level, with four of those victories secured at Leopardstown - including in this race in 2020. His most recent triumph came…

Day two of the Leopardstown Christmas Festival takes centre stage in Ireland on Tuesday and there's £10000 up for grabs in the Paddy's Pick 5 competition, which is free to enter. Below, we have shared our selections for the five races. Best of luck! DYSART DYNAMO was a smart novice hurdler last season and was still travelling well when falling…

As British fans eagerly await the start of King George day at Kempton Park, Irish eyes will be fixed on Leopardstown, as their popular Christmas Festival gets underway on Boxing Day. One Grade One race will be run at Leopardstown on Monday, along with a Grade Two, a couple of big handicaps, two maiden hurdles and a classy bumper. Here are our free…

Frost and snow has hit hard in Britain and Ireland but over the festive period ITV are planning on covering action from 14 race meetings, featuring 41 races in total, across six joyous days of high-octane racing. From Boxing Day right through to New Year's Day, the Christmas jumpers are out in force and here we highlight the full schedule including…

Gary Moore is assembling a fine squad of novice hurdlers this term and is eyeing up Kempton on Boxing Day for his taking Huntingdon winner Hansard. The Noel Fehily Racing Club-owned gelding travelled strongly in the hands of Jamie Moore at the Cambridgeshire track on his stable debut and showed plenty of speed to quicken off the slow pace and deny…

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…

With last year's renewal of the Cheltenham Festival being such a fantastic, breakout meeting for Irish trainer Henry de Bromhead, who most notably won the Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase and the Gold Cup, it is easy to forget that it was, in fact, his compatriot Willie Mullins who took home the Leading Trainer award - albeit on the…

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Horse racing fans have plenty to look forward to during the rest of 2022, with the upcoming schedule packed with a host of top-class events. Without further ado, let's take a look at biggest horse racing events still to come in 2022, starting with a thrilling day of action in the United Kingdom. QIPCO British Champions Day Punters will be…