Posts tagged Sandown Park
Binocular wins Contenders Hurdle
Feb 5th
Nicky Henderson started the day with two contenders for the Stan James Champion Hurdle. He finished the day the same way and possibly only a little bit the wiser. To ready the full story: http://horse-racing.bettor.com/binocular-still-has-champion-hurdle-in-his-sights/news/1338650
Medermit wins Challengers Novices’ Chase
Feb 5th
The ultimate destination may be a few weeks away but Alan King reached another milestone on what has been a long, and sometimes frustrating, journey at Sandown Park. Last season’s total of 78 winners – which was barely half the number of the previous campaign – is already in sight but King’s yard is about [...]
Tony McCoy focussed on Binocular
Feb 4th
A year ago Tony McCoy walked away from the winner’s enclosure at Sandown Park with a perplexed look on his face. The champion jockey had just won yet another race, which is usually enough to satisfy a man who is addicted to the drug of finishing first. However that transient high was lost amid the [...]
Peddlers Cross unlikely to run on Saturday
Feb 2nd
What was building up to be the big showdown before the main event may now be the big non-event. The totesport Contenders Hurdle, at Sandown Park on Saturday, was already becoming something of an intimate affair with the seven entries split between just four trainers. However, the interest centred on the rematch between Binocular and [...]
Paul Nicholls dominates entries for the Tingle Creek Chase
Nov 29th
Not much can stop Paul Nicholls when it comes to the Tingle Creek Chase. The champion trainer has won the race seven times and on each of its last five renewals, and once again his horses dominate the entries for the Grade One race this year. Master Minded and Twist Magic have won the Tingle [...]
Racing round-up: Freeze continues to hit
Nov 28th
The winter freeze, which meant that all three of the turf meetings in Britain and Ireland had to be abandoned on Sunday, shows no sign of relinquishing its icy grip. Kempton’s Polytrack fixture was the only one to survive as Carlisle and Leicester joined what is likely to be a growing list of causalities to [...]
Native Khan wins Solario Stakes
Aug 22nd
Travel may broaden the mind but it may not have done much for the peace of mind of Kieren Fallon. The Irishman finished this week’s Ebor meeting at York as the leading rider and then jetted off to America for big-race rides at Arlington Park but missed out on three good winners at Sandown Park [...]
Solario Stakes preview
Aug 21st
Form-book students were left with a couple of surprises from this week’s Ebor meeting at York. The most obvious was the victory for rank outsider Sole Power in the Nunthorpe Stakes on the final day; which still looked impossible even when reading the result. The other was that Mark Johnston managed to go through the [...]
Snow Fairy could still run in St Leger
Aug 20th
Ed Dunlop certainly did not take the soft option with Snow Fairy at York but may do so if he pitches her in for the final Classic of the season. Snow Fairy, the winner of both the Oaks and the Irish equivalent, lost little caste in defeat when she was beaten by three lengths by [...]
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