Posts tagged Haydock Park
Imperial Commander wins Betfair Chase
Nov 23rd
A winning margin of one-and-a-quarter lengths over a horse who has not won a steeplechase in over two years is hardly an earth-shattering performance. But Imperial Commander made just the start that he needed to when he won the Betfair Chase at Haydock Park. From the moment that he won last season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup, [...]
Grands Crus wins at Haydock
Nov 23rd
The inside track is the favoured position both on the track and in the betting market. On Sunday Grands Crus landed a gamble for the David Pipe stable when he won a handicap hurdle at Cheltenham. This time the public lumped on at Haydock before the handicapper got the chance to do much the same. [...]
Silver By Nature to be entered for Betfair Chase
Oct 28th
St Johnstone may be some way off the pace in the Scottish Premier League but their chairman is hoping to see his horse crack it in the big league. Silver By Nature emerged last season as one of the most promising young staying chasers until he was put on the sidelines with a leg injury. [...]
Imperial Commander starts season in Betfair Chase
Oct 18th
Nigel Twiston-Davies believes that neither he nor his stable star has anything to prove. However, history dictates that Imperial Commander’s victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last March, far from cementing his place on the top of the mountain, simply threw down his greatest challenge yet. To read the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Nigel-Twiston-Davies-believes-Imperial-Commander-will-rule-a34707
Markab wins Sprint Cup
Sep 4th
Markab broke the track record to win the Group One Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock Park. Starspangledbanner, who was flying for Aidan O’Brien during the summer, was beaten for the second time in successive races as he came fifth. The Choisir colt had looked to be one of the stars of the season when he [...]
Irish Champion Stakes preview
Sep 4th
When Rip Van Winkle won the Juddmonte International at York two weeks ago, Aidan O’Brien said: “He’s in a really good place now and he’s really on an upward curve.” As the colt had just beaten Twice Over and Byword, respectively the winners of the Eclipse and Prince of Wales’s Stakes, just how much more [...]
Twenty left in Sprint Cup
Aug 30th
As Richard Hannon continues his pursuit of Sir Michael Stoute in this year’s trainers’ championship, he could be forgiven for wondering why what had become so reliable has begun to fail. Hannon’s two-year-old division has always paid its but this year there had been a level of quality that pushed the quantity to unheard of [...]
Kingsgate Native at home in Temple Stakes
May 22nd
Making plans for racehorses tends to be something of an open-ended arrangement. When the Cheveley Park Stud bought Kingsgate Native two years ago the plan had been for him to be added to their stallion roster. That, however, never came to fruition; he was sent back into training with Sir Michael Stoute and a gelding [...]
Steinbeck a novel choice for Irish 2000 Guineas
May 21st
The away fixture at Newmarket may not have been a success but Aidan O’Brien is a man who always appears more at ease at home. O’Brien has six runners for the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday and Steinbeck looks to be the pick. He has been drawn in stall six, [...]
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