Posts tagged Alan King
Sam Winner wins Triumph Hurdle Trial
Nov 13th
The main event may be four months over the horizon but that does not mean that the sifting process for the Triumph Hurdle winner is not on in earnest already. The Grade Two JCB Triumph Hurdle Trial has only produced one winner who has gone on to claim the Triumph Hurdle itself, Katchit in 2006, [...]
Cue Card takes unbeaten record to four
Nov 12th
Reputations of novice hurdlers in November can be fragile vessels in which to load too much by way of a cargo of hope. Cue Card had suggested that he might be a cut above the average when he made a winning start of hurdles at Aintree last month and he gave real substance to the [...]
Cue Card will not fluff his lines
Oct 26th
Talking horses can prove to be expensive and talk can be cheap if the horse being talked about cannot measure up. Cue Card is an impressive stamp of a horse who could measure up by any standards. He may have been the surprise package when he won the Grade One Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham [...]
Cue Card wins at Aintree
Oct 24th
One day where the sound of bursting bubbles often filled the air, Cue Card made the transition from promising bumper horse to exciting novice hurdler look easy at Aintree. Cue Card, trained by Colin Tizzard, won the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival in March, but several horses who won that race have failed to [...]
Alan King looks for signs of revival
Oct 22nd
There may have been only five winners so far, and the stable jockey is still on the injured list, but Alan King can see light at the end of the tunnel. The trainer whom Paul Nicholls had tipped as the most likely to challenge his current hegemony of the championship is still working his way [...]
Halcon Genelardais a National treasure
Dec 28th
Local knowledge is always useful and when it comes to the Coral Welsh National, no-one knows the race or Chepstow better than Halcon Genelardais. He will be making his fourth successive appearance in the race having won in 2006 and then finishing win second and a third under 11st 12lb in the last two years [...]
JP looking for initial big-race success
Dec 16th
A look at the various championship tables in jump racing suggests that it is very much business as usual. Tony McCoy is still repelling all challengers from the ranks of jockeys as he appears to have done since God was a child, Paul Nicholls is turning out big-race winners by the handful to keep both [...]
King not ready to abdicate
Dec 3rd
There are a few questions in life that need answering. Why does the toast always land butter-side down on the carpet? Or will you get through an entire Christmas avoiding reruns of the Sound of Music or the Great Escape? Another might be just why the wheels have fallen off the wagon for Alan King [...]
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