Posts tagged Big Buck’s
Big Buck’s tops World Hurdle entries
Jan 20th
Big Buck’s may be the prime contender for the role of banker bet for this year’s Cheltenham Festival but that news has clearly not filtered through to other yards. To read the full story: http://horse-racing.bettor.com/big-buck-s-tops-world-hurdle-entries/news/1338018
World Hurdle next for Big Buck’s
Jan 4th
The Cheltenham racecourse executive might find themselves with a bumper entry for the Cleeve Hurdle at the end of the month. The Grade Two hurdle is one of the highlights of the track’s Festival Trials Day card but may be even more enticing to potential runners with the news that the horse who has become [...]
Big Buck’s wins Long Walk Hurdle
Dec 29th
Some things became clearer after racing at Newbury. At least the results made some things clearer. After a month when jump racing has been in the grip of freezing temperatures, it was the turn of fog to cause the disruption this time but there was no disguising the authority of Big Buck’s in the Grade [...]
Only five ready to go for Big Buck’s at Newbury
Dec 28th
The powers that be in British racing may have managed to save the race but making it much of a contest may be beyond even them. The Grade One AP Wins Sports Personality Long Walk Hurdle was dug out of the snowbound fixture at Ascot two weeks ago and rescheduled for Newbury’s meeting on Wednesday, [...]
Peterborough Chase switched to Newbury
Dec 13th
If the weather relents this week jump racing can look forward to an early Christmas present on both sides of the Irish Sea. After the brief respite, when Cheltenham’s International meeting came through unscathed by the elements, what has become an all-to-normal disruption to service resumed when the card at Huntingdon on Sunday was lost [...]
Diamond Harry sparkles in Hennessey Gold Cup
Nov 27th
Nick Williams hit the big time in style when Diamond Harry won the 54th running of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury. Diamond Harry was up the front for most of the way and Darryl Jacob committed to the lead off the home turn as Denman did his best to threw down his challenge under [...]
Big Buck’s in the money at Newbury
Nov 27th
It looked an easy enough race on paper and it was not much different on turf. Big Buck’s began his season with an easy win in the Grade Two sportingbet.com Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury. Tony McCoy became the latest stand-in jockey for the Paul Nicholls stable – replacing Noel Fehily, who had broken his [...]
Can anyone buck the Nicholls trend?
Dec 29th
There may be no truth in the rumour that the Office of Fair Trading have received a letter from a batch of trainers, citing the stranglehold that Paul Nicholls has exerted on so many of the feature races of late, but he is again the man they all have to beat. Big Buck’s will be [...]
Nicholls chasing big bucks in Long Walk Hurdle
Dec 14th
A year ago Paul Nicholls was wondering what do with Big Buck’s. He had just unseated Sam Thomas at the last fence of the Hennessy Gold Cup, having been bang in contention, and then Nicholls came up with what he admitted at the time was the “mad idea” of sending the horse back hurdling. The [...]
Weight of evidence on Denman’s side
Nov 27th
A certainty or the first to be safely crossed off the list? This year’s renewal of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury has been dominated, in more ways than one, by Denman. The topweight has to carry 11st 12lb, the same weight that he made light of to win the race two years ago. However, [...]
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