Posts tagged Philip Fenton

Dunguib back in Limestone Lad Hurdle

Dungib, for some the talking horse who was struck mute at last season’s Cheltenham Festival, could be back out in a fortnight. The eight-year-old – who the Weatherbys Champion Bumper in 2009 – was considered one of the banker bets of the meeting when he ran in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, having run up an [...]

Dunguib faces a champion’s test

Dunguib is set to take his chance in the Rabobank Champion Hurdle at Punchestown on Friday.  His trainer, Philip Fenton, has decided to take on the big guns rather than go for the Champion Novices’ Hurdle on Tuesday. Dunguib was one of the Cheltenham Festival bankers that wrecked a few accounts when he finished third [...]

Tunnel vision is right view

Gordon Gekko may have believed that greed was good but Philip Fenton thinks otherwise. Dunguib is still entered for the Champion Hurdle but the trainer insists he will not be tempted to take on the senior division, rather keep his star horse to the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. “The Supreme Novices’ Hurdle [...]

Mullins may yet up the ante

An earlier than usual start to the silly season or the first inspired punt of the decade? A look at the ante-post markets for the four feature races for the Cheltenham Festival shows that there is a need for something to stir as the Paul Nicholls yard has a stranglehold on three of them. His [...]