The Sandown Tingle Creek Festival of 2025 has a day 1 card on Friday, 5 December that could prove to be just as informative for Cheltenham as the Grade 1s that follow. That’s because the Greater London track has two Grade 2s in the Winter Novices’ Hurdle and Esher Novices’ Chase on the opening day …
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The concluding day of the Winter Festival at Fairyhouse races on Sunday, 30 November looks sure to prove informative for the rest of the National Hunt season. That’s because of two Grade 1s, as many Listed handicaps, and Grade 2 and Grade 3 events on the card. Headlining the action is the Drinmore Novice Chase …
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The Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle of 2025 will have a huge influence on the Champion Hurdle betting. Just five horses head to Tyneside track Newcastle up at Gosforth Park outside the city centre, but there are genuine top-level talents on show on Saturday, 29 November. This is one of the few big races in …
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Willie Mullins has won nine of the last 12 editions of the John Durkan Chase at Punchestown including with Fact To File 12 months ago. Such is the embarrassment of riches at his Closutton stables that he saddles seven of the 11 runners in the almost 2m 4f Grade 1 contest on Sunday, 23 November. …
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There’s something of the Native River about Haiti Couleurs, and he can justify such comparisons stepping into Grade 1 company for the first time in the Betfair Chase of 2025 at Haydock Park on Saturday, 22 November. Consecutive wins in big handicaps in the spring suggest Rebecca Curtis’ stable star should be worth a shot …
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The Morgiana Hurdle of 2025 sees just four horses run in the Grade 1 feature of the opening day of Punchestown’s Premiere Weekend on Saturday, 22 November. Small fields in this extended two-mile contest are common with five or fewer turning out in nine of the last 10 renewals. This was where Willie Mullins started …
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The November Racing Weekend at Ascot races culminates in a cracking card on Saturday, 22 November. Grade 2 action headlines proceedings in Berkshire with the 1965 Chase over fences and the Ascot Hurdle on a busy day for the jumps throughout the British Isles. Supporting races on the card are a couple of intriguing handicap …
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Going into the Shloer Chase of 2025, four horses have won the Grade 2 contest over about two miles on Cheltenham’s Old Course twice. One of those is the mighty Jonbon, and Nicky Henderson’s charge could make history on the opening day of the November Meeting as he seeks a hat-trick. Odds-on with all the …
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