Jamie Clark

The Chepstow Welsh Racing Festival 2025 day 2 card on Saturday, 11 October puts handicaps front and centre. These include the Silver Trophy over hurdles and a steeplechase honouring Native River. Besides winning the Hennessy Gold Cup and Welsh Grand National, he later tasted Cheltenham Gold Cup glory when prevailing in an epic duel with …

The core National Hunt season starts at Chepstow with the Welsh Racing Festival of 2025 on Friday, 10 October as the opening card of an expanded three-day fixture. This meeting 12 months ago saw subsequent National Hunt Chase hero Haiti Couleurs begin his campaign en route to Cheltenham Festival and Irish Grand National glory. While …

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 …