#Pied Piper

Only once since 2010 has the Cheltenham Festival top trainer title been won by a British handler. Proof, as if needed, that the best horses are in Ireland was there for all to see last year. Willie Mullins heads Cheltenham top trainer odds once again with the bookies with what looks a top Festival team. These are our five best betting sites for…

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…

Nicky Henderson believes Epatante must be treated as "still a possible runner" in the Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle - despite her not featuring among the initial entries for the Cheltenham Festival contest. The winner of the Unibet Champion Hurdle in 2020 before placing behind Honeysuckle the following two years, Epatante has been given the option…

THE latest Cheltenham Festival entries have been revealed - and there are some early shocks. Racing's biggest meeting gets underway nine weeks today and several of the fields are starting to take shape. But there were eyebrows raised on Tuesday when it was revealed JP McManus' Epatante had not been entered in the Mares' Hurdle. The Nicky…

MONSTER hurdler Constitution Hill is already on track to beat a Cheltenham Festival record - nine weeks before it begins. Nicky Henderson's superstar two miler is 1-4 to win the Champion Hurdle on the first day of the Festival. Nothing has got within 12 lengths of Constitution Hill in his five runs under rules. And his 17-length demolition job of…

The weekend's action at Leopardstown provided further pointers towards the Cheltenham Festival with plenty of movers in the betting markets ahead of the four-day extravaganza at Prestbury Park in March. Who are the big movers following the sixth renewal of the Dublin Racing Festival? We've taken a look at their impact on the big Grade Ones…

There are thousands of races in Britain and Ireland each year but it is not always the ones you might expect that prove most popular when it comes to watching the action back. This year's top five most-watched replays on racingpost.com include jump and Flat races, with everything from the Derby to the Irish Arkle covered. With the season's leading…

Here at Severn Sport not only do we cast our eyes over Gloucestershire Football, but we also follow horse racing and in particular the road to the Cheltenham Festival in March. As part of our annual coverage we host a tipster league in March and get local players involved as part of the fun and this year with the fact there isn't much football…

Ruby Walsh has offered his expert insight into the upcoming Cheltenham Festival with the legendary jockey expecting another thrilling week of action in England. Walsh is no stranger to Cheltenham having been the leading jockey 11 times at the Festival, nabbing 59 winners and twice racing to Gold Cup glory. And previewing the races, Walsh is backing…

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…

Leopardstown is once more the mainstay for the ITV Racing team on Thursday, with another brace of Grade 1 races from the Foxrock track on the final afternoon of its Christmas Festival. The Neville Hotels Novices Chase (1.45pm) and the Matheson Hurdle (2.20pm) are the features from Leopardstown, with ITV showing four races from Ireland alongside two…

It's a huge week of racing and we'll be bringing your a live blog every day from Royal Ascot. And our many Garry Owen will give you his selections as well as all of the other UK meetings. MY PROSPERO (4.20) can storm to victory in the St James's Palace Stakes on Day One of Royal Ascot. Thriving William Haggas has a serious chance of more big-race…

Royal Ascot 2022 is here with the best fashion and sporting action. Baaeed and Nature Strip are among the stars on show on day one at the Berkshire venue The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall and Mr. Peter Phillips arriving by carriage during the Royal Procession on day one of Royal Ascot Royal Ascot week has begun with all the best sporting…

Wednesday was one of the wettest days seen at a festival and, after watering on Tuesday night, the ground was in a near unraceable state by the time they ran the bumper. We had a drying day on Thursday and the switch to the New course also helped, but it still seems fair to assume the going will be testing for the traditional Gold Cup day…

Clockers' Corner was not as crowded as it was two springs ago, but it still felt lively Thursday morning. Trainers Carla Gaines and Vlad Cerin brought around their dogs, who playfully breached whatever canine protocols there are for social distancing. Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux was the best-dressed gent in the joint, sporting a colorful…

Gold Cup third Protektorat meets the last two winners of the Betway Bowl on day one of the Grand National meeting. Dan Skelton's chaser, the best of the British runners in the Cheltenham Festival feature, is up against Clan Des Obeaux and Kemboy. The pair have flourished in the Grade 1 Aintree contest, run over conventional fences at a distance of…

One careful step at a time, like a cat stalking a bird, Galvin has been creeping up the tree ever since winning a modest Roscommon bumper in the summer of 2018. Now, almost four years on, he's reached the very top branch and is ready to pounce on his choice prey in what promises to be a pulsating ­ Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday afternoon. Gordon…

he Cheltenham Festival has arrived and while, as ever, there looks to be some wide open contests, there are also plenty of short-priced fancies across the four days at Prestbury Park. Last year's meeting set a record for the most odds-on favourites in Cheltenham history - seven - and while it doesn't look as if we'll get quite that many this…

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…

Unbeaten thoroughbred Baaeed and two of the best sprinters in the world open the show at Royal Ascot 2022. Crowds return to the huge sporting event to see Australia's Nature Strip and American hope Golden Pal race for top honours in the King's Stand Stakes. Up against the star pair is the Queen's first runner of the week, King's Lynn, who tries to…

THE Cheltenham Festival ante post markets have been in full swing since March. Shrewd punters have been busy plotting and predicting how this year's races will finish. Irish trainers dominated last year and with the likes of Willie Mullins and Henry de Bromhead having such strong yards, it's no surprise many of their superstars lead the way…

The first of The Queen's Royal Ascot hopefuls runs in the King's Stand Stakes on Tuesday (June 15). Buckingham Palace has yet to announce if Her Majesty will be in the royal box to see King's Lynn off at 3.40pm. The four-year-old, trained by Andrew Balding, will be ridden by jockey Oisin Murphy in the five-furlong race which carries a prize of…

Golden Pal and Nature Strip are vying for favouritism in the King's Stand Stakes on day one of Royal Ascot 2022. All of the racing action will be on ITV from 1.30pm All the talk revolves around Baaeed maintaining his perfect record on day one of Royal Ascot. But the opening card is not just a one star show, with 2000 Guineas hero Coroebus and the…

Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham is one of the single most informative days for ante-post Cheltenham Festival punters in the National Hunt Calendar and the 2022 edition of this popular raceday threw up several key talking points ahead of the March bonanza.

Reigning champion Minella Indo will be hoping to make it successive Gold Cup wins toward the end of the 2022 Cheltenham Festival, but will face plenty of competition from the likes of last year's National Hunt Chase winner Galvin and previous two-time winner of this race Al Boum Photo. That all comes after four full days of racing though, with…

Champ is ante-post favourite for the Stayers Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival 2022. Chantry House, Pied Piper and Hillcrest are other leading contenders for Saturday's racing Champ (right) is one of the favourites for the Cheltenham Festival Cheltenham Festival favourite Champ is the star on show as horses trial for the big meeting at the…

With a month or so to go till the Cheltenham Festival, the ante-post markets are really beginning to take shape with racing fans across the country hoping to seek out value ahead of those famous four days in March. It's a very busy time for the trading team too, and we asked William Hill's Director of Racing, Mark Howarth how things are looking…

CONFLATED has the ability to crush the hopes of two past winners of today's Betway Bowl Chase by taking the Aintree prize. Both Clan Des Obeaux, winner of last year's contest, and Kemboy, successful in the 2019 race, have disappointed this season, suggesting they are now on the decline. In contrast CONFLATED (2.55, nap, ITV) has stepped up to the…

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…

We're on the road to the Cheltenham Festival with the leading lights of the National Hunt game coming out to play. A number of clues for all four championship races - the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase, Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle and Gold Cup - are set to be dropped over the coming months. The Cheltenham Festival 2023 takes place between Tuesday,…

BOOKIES think Constitution Hill will miss this weekend's Fighting Fifth - after the Ascot fiasco. Trainer Nicky Henderson said there was no chance he was going to run his sensational Supreme winner on good ground last weekend. That immediately raised the prospect of a head-to-head with stablemate Epatante at Newcastle this Saturday. But…

Last week I was waxing lyrical about the autumnal conditions and how we should all be embracing the end of summer. Well, that didn't age particularly well, did it? As a result, you may have to forgive me if I repeat myself at times this week. Ascot staged their November meeting last weekend, and whilst it was November in name, it was not in nature.…

Fighting Fifth Hurdle: takes place this Saturday at Newcastle Newcastle is optimistic conditions will be on the slower side for its flagship jumps meeting on Saturday raising hopes that two of racing's most exciting stars, Constitution Hill and L'Homme Presse, may run a week on from their late withdrawals on a decimated Ascot card. Constitution…

Henry de Bromhead has hailed Honeysuckle an "all-time great" no matter what happens when young pretenders Constitution Hill and State Man challenge over the coming months. The trainer is well aware of the whizz-kids arriving on the scene this season, but thinks his unbeaten wondermare still holds all the aces in the Champion Hurdle pot. The…

Imperial Alcazar: will he be suited to the unseasonably quick conditions at Cheltenham? It's good ground at Cheltenham on Saturday with only a small possibility of showers during the afternoon. Here are three fancied runners on Trials day who could struggle on the unseasonably quick going. Why's the ground an issue? The short-priced favourite for…

At The Races expert Alan Thomson gives his thoughts and a big-race verdict on the Race of the Day at Ascot, an ultra-competitive handicap hurdle. The Sky Sports Racing cameras focus on Ascot's Friday slot and nine runners go to post for the Class 2 Garden For All Seasons Handicap Hurdle (3.15) over two miles. Fancied Herbiers has been declared a…

Constitution Hill arguably goes into the 2022-23 jumps season as the most exciting horse in training. Last season's stunning Supreme Novices' Hurdle winner sets out on the road to the 2023 Champion Hurdle when he returns in the Coral Hurdle at Ascot this Saturday. The Michael Buckley-owned five-year-old is a red-hot 5/4 favourite to dethrone…

Jack Nicol takes a look ahead to the 2022 Cheltenham Festival and pinpoints five contenders he believes have strong credentials. Best odds: 16-1. State Man bolted up at Limerick when last seen The Cheltenham Festival opener looks sure to be one of the races of the meeting, and one of the strongest renewals in recent years. Certainly since Altior…

Trainer Alan King hasn't had a Cheltenham Festival winner since Uxizandre won the Ryanair Chase in 2015, but the exciting Edwardstone has an outstanding chance in what looks to be a somewhat weak renewal of the Arkle. A Grade One winner at Sandown in December, he put a number of decent horses to the sword quite easily in the Kingmaker Novices'…

Saturday was Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham and it certainly threw up some very interesting plotlines with March in mind. The next time the flags are dropped at the Cotswolds venue, it will be for the Festival-opening Supreme Novices' Hurdle on March 15. Here is our latest weekend review with eyes firmly now fixed on the big event. Odds correct…

Go for GALVIN in the Cheltenham Gold Cup as the Festival reaches its grand finale. Gordon Elliott, already with a winner of the feature on his CV, looks to have an ideal candidate. The son of Gold Well has stamina in abundance - and scooped the National Hunt Chase prize at last year's meeting. A narrow verdict over A Plus Tard at Leopardstown over…

Having unseated his rider and running loose before the race started, Captain Broomfield showed some headstrong tendencies that his full brother, Captain Guinness, also displayed in the early stages of his career. Despite those exertions, he shaped with a great deal of promise against more experienced rivals. Restrained early, he made smooth headway…

American Mike and Jack Kennedy land the opening maiden hurdle at Down Royal Friday: Down Royal Talk beforehand was whether Gordon Elliott could go through the card on day one of the Ladbrokes festival of racing. That was scuppered early, but a haul of four on the day was more than satisfactory, and featured talented bumper horse American…

Rachael Blackmore can make history and win her first Cheltenham Gold Cup riding A Plus Tard. Henry De Bromhead's chaser, second last year, was extremely impressive in the Betfair Chase at the start of the season. He was then pipped by Galvin, when Blackmore probably hit the front a little sooner than ideal against a strong stayer, at…

Can up-and-coming hurdler Knappers Hill (right) take Sceau Royal's crown at Wincanton? If Sceau Royal wins this race again then it wouldn't be a surprise if it were to be named after him at some point in the future, because the ten-year-old has dominated the contest in recent years. He won his first Elite Hurdle off a mark of 149 when it was a…

Saturday horse racing tips feature selections from a huge day of racing including the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland, flat racing at Doncaster and top-class jump racing at Wincanton and Aintree. talkSPORT have gone through the race cards and form so you don't have to, with betting tips across all the racing from the UK. Israr won last time out not only…

ITV Racing will be covering races at Exeter and Down Royal on Friday in what is a star-studded day of racing. Gordon Elliott will be hoping for a big day in Northern Ireland in a meeting that he does like to target with some smart types, with Pied Piper making his second start of the season in the WKD Hurdle. Viewers of ITV racing will be hoping to…

The ITV Racing team will pitch up at Exeter on Friday afternoon, before heading off to the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland in the early evening. The Haldon Gold Cup tops the billing at Exeter. Afternoon viewers will also enjoy three decent contests live from Down Royal, including a couple of graded races over hurdles. The Model Kingdom puts her unbeaten…