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• Champion trainer Paul Nicholls speaks out on Kempton development

  15-01-2017 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  • “I need to know a lot more detail before making up my mind.”
  • Nine-time winner says Ascot should host King George if track closesPaul Nicholls has broken his silence over the plans to close Kempton and build on the famous racetrack, expressing “dread” at the prospect and pressing the Jockey Club to explain their thinking. The champion jumps trainer in 10 of the past 11 years, Nicholls went on to insist that Ascot, rather than Sandown, should be the home of th
  
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• Champion trainer Paul Nicholls speaks out against Kempton development

  15-01-2017 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  • ‘I dread the thought of the doors at Kempton closing for the final time’
  • Nine-times winner says Ascot should host King George if track closesPaul Nicholls has broken his silence over the plans to close Kempton and build on the famous racetrack, expressing “dread” at the prospect and pressing the Jockey Club to explain their thinking. Nicholls, the champion jumps trainer in 10 of the past 11 years, went on to insist that Ascot, rather than Sandown, should be
  
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• Horse racing tips: Monday 16 January

  15-01-2017 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Itoldyou in the 3.05 at Plumpton is the nap and Lady Bacchus in the 5.00 at Wolverhampton is next best1.10 Loose Ends 1.40 Whizzzey Rascal 2.10 Moon Indigo 2.45 Freddies Portrait 3.15 Spoils Of War 3.50 How’s Vienna Continue reading...
  
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• Ten-day ban for amateur Gittins after hunter chase error

  15-01-2017 19:10
  Amateur rider Dougie Gittins was hit with a ten-day ban at Kelso on Sunday after stewards felt he could have won the hunter chase if he had not mistaken the winning post.
  
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• Ashforth's Angles: Show us the sums for Kempton

  15-01-2017 19:00
  THE planned closure of Kempton has generated enormous heat.
  
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• Cheltenham next for winning machine Tobefair

  15-01-2017 17:45
  DEBRA HAMER has been training since 1992. She has saddled 79 winners in that time, currently has eight horses in training, two members of staff - excluding her and her husband - and, in Saturday's ITV Racing winner Tobefair, the horse of a lifetime.
  
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• Fairyhouse: Elliott and Kennedy land another big prize

  15-01-2017 15:40
  GIGGINSTOWN, Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy struck in the big race on successive Sundays as Ball D'Arc justified favouritism.
  
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• Elliott and Kennedy land another big prize with Ball D'Arc

  15-01-2017 15:40
  GIGGINSTOWN, Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy struck in the big race on successive Sundays as Ball D'Arc justified favouritism.
  
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• Henderson: Altior will not run in Clarence House

  15-01-2017 13:35
  NICKY HENDERSON has confirmed Altior will not run in Saturday's Berkshire Community Foundation Clarence House Chase, with next month's Betfair Exchange Game Spirit Chase his likely stepping stone to the Cheltenham Festival.
  
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• The Extra Edge advice on Sunday

  15-01-2017 12:50
  Pietro Innocenzi is The Extra Edge on Sunday
  
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• Nicholls: Kempton closure plans fill me with dread

  15-01-2017 12:00
  CHAMPION jumps trainer Paul Nicholls said on Sunday he "dreads" the thought of Kempton closing and added he hoped the The Jockey Club's plans for the course did not come to fruition.
  
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• Pricewise Extra advice for Sunday

  15-01-2017 10:50
  Tom Segal is Pricewise Extra on Sunday
  
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• Walsh to take over from 'sore' Fehily on Baltimore Rock

  15-01-2017 10:05
  RUBY WALSH is set to take the ride on British raider Baltimore Rock in the lucrative Bar One Racing Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase at Fairyhouse on Sunday, replacing Noel Fehily who was injured in a fall at Warwick on Saturday.
  
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• Kelso gets go-ahead after improvement in conditions

  15-01-2017 08:02
  TODAY'S meeting at Kelso has been given the go-ahead after milder weather arrived overnight.
  
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