Posts tagged Zaynar
Zaynar tops Ascot Hurdle entries
Nov 17th
It looks as though the calls for the 2009 Truimph Hurdle winner Zaynar to be tried at longer distances have been answered. To read more, click here: http://blogs.bettor.com/Zaynar-tops-Ascot-Hurdle-entries-a41815
Zaynar could be just champion for Tinkler
Mar 12th
Three months ago he was the horse jockeys were lining up to ride. Then Zaynar was favourite for the Champion Hurdle but, after a defeat in trial race at Kelso run on desperate ground, he has been passed over by Barry Geraghty, in favour of the reigning champion Punjabi, and Tony McCoy, who has been [...]
Henderson hopes for clarity with Binocular
Feb 2nd
The Champion Hurdle crown appears to be up for grabs in an open year and yet Sandown has reported a shortage of runners for the latest trial. Despite losing much of January to the freeze, there were only six initial entries for Saturday’s Toteswinger Contenders Hurdle, meaning that the race was re-opened until this morning. [...]
Irish trainers play numbers game
Jan 20th
The days when Irish-trained runners dominated the major prizes at the Cheltenham Festival may be receding into the more distant memory now but they will not lack for numbers in this year’s Champion Hurdle. Having failed to even make the frame in the past two renewals of the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle, Irish trainers appear [...]
Mullins may yet up the ante
Jan 4th
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 [...]
Henderson hooked on the winning line
Dec 18th
At the time it could be dismissed as nothing more than one of the quirks of superstition that run through sport. Caracciola had just become the oldest horse in modern times to win a Royal Ascot race in the Queen Alexandra Stakes, the longest race in the Flat calendar. However, there was no sign of [...]
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 [...]
Trials and tribulations at Cheltenham
Dec 14th
The premise was for a race that might throw some light on the current pecking order for next year’s Champion Hurdle. The end result of Saturday’s meeting at Cheltenham did produce a new ante-post favourite for the race, but by a somewhat circuitous route. The boylesports.com International Hurdle brought together Nicky Henderson’s Champion Hurdle winner, [...]
Celestial Halo has ring of confidence
Dec 11th
Like all champions, the winners matter to Paul Nicholls but losers tend not to be forgotten either. Last season’s Cheltenham Festival was a memorable one for the champion trainer – he won three of the four major prizes with Kauto Star (Cheltenham Gold Cup), Master Minded (Queen Mother Champion Chase) and Big Buck’s (World Hurdle) [...]
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