Jamie Clark

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 …

The Champion Hurdle of 2025 is to all intents and purposes a three-horse race. It pits the last two winners of the Grade 1 feature contest from the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival against one another. This isn’t just about a rematch between Constitution Hill and State Man from 2023, however. There’s the small matter of …

The Mares Hurdle at Cheltenham is a bone of contention. Should females with a sufficient high rating to run in the Champion Hurdle instead have this easier option over further? It’s a loophole connections of Lossiemouth try to exploit again this year. There’s a lot of opinion out there on the mares only Grade 1 …

A disappointing turnout of just five runners for the Arkle Chase of 2025 is down to the presence of the greatly-feared Majborough. JP McManus has never won the two-mile Grade 1 novice chase at the Cheltenham Festival, but shouldn’t look this gift horse in the mouth. Up until February, this looked like producing one of …

Just whisper this if you’re in the Kopek Des Bordes camp, but Willie Mullins comes into the Supreme Novices Hurdle of 2025 with just two victories in the Cheltenham Festival opener during the last decade. When your Closutton stable has half of the dozen-strong field, however, you do give yourself plenty of chances. The home …

Nicky Henderson revealed his intention to supplement facile Newbury Premier Handicap heroine Joyeuse for the Festival Mares’ Hurdle on the opening day of Cheltenham. From the same family as the yard’s six-time Grade 1 winner and 2020 Champion Hurdle scorer Epatante, the lightly-raced six-year-old also runs in the colours of JP McManus. Joyeuse will now …