Jamie Clark

Willie Mullins continues a ruthless pursuit of retaining his UK trainers’ championship at the Cheltenham April Meeting of 2025. The master Irish handler has two runners in the opening day feature, the Grade 2 Silver Trophy, a limited handicap chase on Wednesday, 16 April. With a mares only card to follow at the Prestbury Park …

To join the pantheon of steeplechasing greats, Galopin Des Champs simply has to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2025. He’s done it twice before and scared off much opposition away from the Festival blue riband this year. Plenty points to Galopin Des Champs enjoying a fourth win at this major meeting. A third Irish …

The talking heads on the Cheltenham Festival preview circuit have been pretty lukewarm about firm favourite Teahpuoo in the Stayers Hurdle of 2025 despite him winning the race comfortably 12 months ago. Lightly campaigned and trained to peak in the spring by Gordon Elliott, what’s not to like? Not for him the winter slogs of …

Two Cheltenham Festival winners from last year run in the Ryanair Chase of 2025 with the pair among four horses with joint-top rating of 166. Far from being an easy alternative to the Gold Cup, this could actually turn out to be the steeplechase of the meeting. More than half of the nine runners have …

After consecutive years of Irish winners, the Triumph Hurdle of 2025 may go to the home team if the betting has it right. At the top of the market for the four-year-olds only Grade 1 at Cheltenham on Friday, 14 March are two British hopefuls. East India Dock is the latest in a string of …

All seven runners in the Brown Advisory Novices Chase of 2025 at the Cheltenham Festival are Irish raiders. Such an approach from the home team hurts their hopes of wresting the Prestbury Cup back from the Emerald Isle. What has most trainers on side of the Irish Sea running scared, however, is the presence of …

If last year’s edition was a coronation for Ballyburn, the Turners Novices Hurdle of 2025 (registered as the Baring Bingham) could hardly be more different. There are four Grade 1 winners in the line-up where Willie Mullins runs six in the opener on day two of the Cheltenham Festival. Changing sponsors so often isn’t doing …

Jonbon has for much of his career been on a hiding to nothing, but can transform his Cheltenham reputation with victory in the Queen Mother Champion Chase of 2025 on Style Wednesday, 12 March, at the Festival. He’s the full-brother of Douvan that cost JP McManus a small fortune as the leading Irish owner seeks …