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• Michael Owen on the scoresheet with It Ain’t Two

  17-04-2024 19:18 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Michael Owen is dreaming of bigger days having seen his homebred It Ain’t Two get on the scoresheet in the bet365 EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Newmarket. Trained by Hugo Palmer, her half-brother Balon D’Or hit the target at the first attempt last season, but odds of 18-1 perhaps told the true tale of expectation […]
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• Talking Horses: Shishkin’s flaws and foibles only added to his appeal

  29-04-2024 14:31 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the most talented and engagingly quirky chasers of recent years died on Sunday in a tragic stable accidentThere was a keen and widely shared sense of loss among racing fans on social media on Sunday evening as news emerged that Nicky Henderson’s Shishkin, one of the most talented and engagingly quirky chasers of recent years, had died after fracturing a hind leg having become cast in his box at Henderson’s yard in Lambourn.It was a hugely unfortunate conclusion to a storied ca
  
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• Racing Bulletin for 29/04/2024

  29-04-2024 08:57 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Latest News and Features 2024 Punchestown Festival Trends Monday Musings: A Cakewalk for Willie 2024 Punchestown Gold Cup Trends 2024 Sagaro Stakes Betting Trends Racing saddened by death of ‘warrior’ Shishkin Prydwen tees up Northumberland Plate tilt with Southwell strike Racing Insights, Monday 29/04/24 Wathnan eyeing Gold Cup repeat with star staying duo Wetherby romp […]
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• 2024 Punchestown Festival Trends

  29-04-2024 07:37 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  A huge week of Irish racing ahead with the 5-day Punchestown Festival (30th April-4th May 2024). Like all big race meetings, we've got all the main trends and stats for the key races through the week – hopefully, these to help narrow down the fields and point you in the direction of a few winners………………. […]
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• Monday Musings: A Cakewalk for Willie

  29-04-2024 07:36 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  We knew when he won the Grand National it would be tight, writes Tony Stafford. The differential between Willie Mullins, devouring his first (of many, no doubt) UK trainers’ titles and runner-up Dan Skelton, was in the end just the £344,717, more than enough to see off Kerry Lee, whose 18 winners at a fine […]
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• 2024 Punchestown Gold Cup Trends

  29-04-2024 05:50 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Staged at the five-day Punchestown Festival in April/May 2024 the Punchestown Gold Cup is a Grade One contest run over 3m1f. The race version we see today was first run back in 1999 and since then has been won by some leading names, including Cheltenham Gold Cup winners Imperial Call, Kicking King, War Of Attrition […]
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• 2024 Sagaro Stakes Betting Trends

  29-04-2024 03:51 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Run at Ascot racecourse this Group 3 flat race is staged for horses aged 4 or older and run over a trip of 2m. Here at Geegeez, we take a look back at recent winners and give you the key trends ahead of the 2024 renewal – this year run on Wednesday 1st May 2024 […]
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• ‘Superstar’ Shishkin dies after suffering leg fracture at Henderson stable

  29-04-2024 00:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Nicky Henderson’s horse a double Cheltenham winner‘He was an absolute superstar, his CV is testament to that’Shishkin, one of the most talented and popular steeplechasers of recent years, has died after suffering an injury at Nicky Henderson’s stable in Lambourn.The 10-year-old was found to have suffered a fracture to a hind leg after being cast in his box on Sunday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Steeplechaser Shishkin dies after suffering leg fracture

  29-04-2024 00:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Nicky Henderson’s horse a double Cheltenham winner‘He was an absolute superstar, his cv is testament to that’Shishkin, one of the most talented and popular steeplechasers of recent years, has died after suffering an injury at Nicky Henderson’s stable in Lambourn.The 10-year-old was found to have suffered a fracture to a hind leg after being cast in his box on Sunday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Racing saddened by death of ‘warrior’ Shishkin

  28-04-2024 23:30 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Nicky Henderson has reported the tragic news that his popular stable star Shishkin has died due to an injury suffered at Seven Barrows. The 10-year-old was due to contest the Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup on Wednesday. Shishkin won 14 of his 21 races, including Cheltenham Festival victories in the 2020 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and the […]
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• Prydwen tees up Northumberland Plate tilt with Southwell strike

  28-04-2024 18:02 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The Northumberland Plate is likely to be next on the agenda for Prydwen after he continued his lucrative all-weather campaign in the Liz And Izzy’s Hoap Podcast Handicap at Southwell. An impressive winner on All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Newcastle a month ago, the six-year-old was a 3-1 joint-favourite for the £75,000 feature on this […]
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• Racing Insights, Monday 29/04/24

  28-04-2024 17:55 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The pace tab on our racecards helps to make a reasoned assumption based upon a field's most recent runs as to how their next race might unfold. This information is vastly under-used by UK bettors, but we feel it's that important that we make this info totally free for all races every Sunday & Monday. […]
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• Wathnan eyeing Gold Cup repeat with star staying duo

  28-04-2024 17:04 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The Ascot Gold Cup is the priority for defending champion Courage Mon Ami and St Leger third Gregory as the Wathnan Racing team seek a repeat of last year’s Royal Ascot heroics. The John and Thady Gosden-trained duo gave the Qatar-based operation the perfect start to their ownership enterprise, with Gregory scooping the Queen’s Vase […]
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• Wetherby romp sees Danielle enter Oaks picture

  28-04-2024 16:34 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  John and Thady Gosden’s Danielle emerged as a possible Oaks contender after securing a runaway first success at Wetherby. Rab Havlin was content to settle the 4-7 favourite in third place behind Winter Life and Cabrera early on in the Burrows Mazda York Fillies’ Novice Stakes over 10 furlongs. The daughter of Cracksman cruised up […]
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• Willie Mullins seals first British trainers’ title

  27-04-2024 16:39 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Willie Mullins has become the first Irish-based trainer since Vincent O’Brien 70 years ago to be crowned champion over jumps in Britain. While odds-on favourite El Fabiolo suffered defeat in the bet365 Celebration Chase at Sandown, the second prize of £36,329 was enough to seal victory over Dan Skelton, whose Nube Negra finished fifth to […]
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• Fantastic performance seals Oaksey honours for Lady

  27-04-2024 16:23 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Fantastic Lady put up a smooth display to land the bet365 Oaksey Chase at Sandown. Third in the race 12 months ago to Hewick, she was having only her fourth outing of the campaign after running well for a long way in the Topham Chase at Aintree over the Grand National fences and having also […]
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• Jonbon makes all for Celebration success

  27-04-2024 16:18 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Jonbon emerged a convincing victor in his long-awaited clash with El Fabiolo in the bet365 Celebration Chase at Sandown. The pair had initially been due to meet in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot back in January only to be scuppered by the weather, while a possible Queen Mother Champion Chase face-off did not happen […]
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• Camille Pissarro makes favourable impression on debut

  27-04-2024 15:28 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Aidan O’Brien’s expensive purchase Camille Pissarro justified odds-on favouritism when making a winning debut at Navan. The imposing colt by Wootton Bassett cost 1.25 million guineas as a yearling, partly because he is a half-brother to Clive Cox’s Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde. Ryan Moore briefly looked in trouble two furlongs out but was just […]
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• Champion jockey Cobden salutes Nicholls’ contribution to title victory

  27-04-2024 14:43 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Harry Cobden has hailed the influence of Paul Nicholls’ Ditcheat operation after fulfilling a childhood dream and becoming champion jockey. Cobden held off his one-time stable comrade and friend Sean Bowen in a good-spirited title battle that went right down to the final days of the season. The Ditcheat number one sealed the title with […]
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• Crypto Force aiming to make Ganay impact

  27-04-2024 14:24 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Crypto Force looks to hit his stride as he takes a maiden voyage to France for the Prix Ganay at ParisLongchamp. The Amo Racing-owned colt defeated Auguste Rodin on debut in 2022 and went on to score at Group Two level in the Beresford Stakes at the latter end of that season. Those runs were […]
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• Sat TV Trends: 27th April 2024

  27-04-2024 09:11 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  It’s Bet365 Gold Cup day at Sandown Park this Saturday – which marks the final day of the 2023-24 jumps season - while the ITV cameras are also heading to Leicester & Haydock for a couple more races – As always, we’ve got all the LIVE TV ITV trends …… Put history on your side […]
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• Racing Bulletin for 27/04/2024

  27-04-2024 08:57 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Latest News and Features Thunder Roll back on track with Cork Listed score City Of Troy remains ‘in great form’ after latest work-out Siyola justifies being held in high regard by Gosdens Harry Cobden wraps up title triumph in Chepstow opener Racing Insights, Saturday 27/04/24 Dubai bidding for Hong Kong honours Arabian Crown comes through […]
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• 2024 bet365 Gold Cup Trends

  27-04-2024 08:42 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The Bet365 Gold Cup will be known to older racing fans as The Whitbread, this 3m5 1/2f race is the last big jumping event of the NH season, and being staged on a mixed (jumps/flat) card then for many this signals the real handover between the two codes. Run at Sandown Park racecourse the staying […]
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• Thunder Roll back on track with Cork Listed score

  26-04-2024 18:59 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Joseph O’Brien’s Thunder Roll bagged another Listed prize when taking the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Noblesse Stakes at Cork. The Night Of Thunder filly was last seen finishing down the field in the Group One Prix de Royallieu, but prior to that took the Listed Oyster Stakes at Galway and was Group Three-placed in the […]
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• Racing lives in Willie’s World with Mullins’ sprint to National Hunt title

  26-04-2024 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Six weeks after his Cheltenham milestone, trainer will become the first based in Ireland to win since Vincent O’Brien in 1954“It’s done but not quite dusted yet,” was Willie Mullins’s assessment earlier this week of the race for the National Hunt trainers’ championship, but he knows as well as anyone that the title is as good as won. Six weeks on from one historic achievement, when he became the first trainer to saddle 100 Cheltenham Festival winners, another
  
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• Racing lives in Willie’s World with Mullins’ canter to National Hunt title

  26-04-2024 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Six weeks after his Cheltenham milestone, trainer will become the first based in Ireland to win since Vincent O’Brien in 1954“It’s done but not quite dusted yet,” was Willie Mullins’s assessment earlier this week of the race for the National Hunt trainers’ championship race, but he knows as well as anyone that the title is as good as won. Six weeks on from one historic achievement, when he became the first trainer to saddle 100 Cheltenham Festival winners, ano
  
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• Next stop the Derby for Trial winner Bellum Justum

  25-04-2024 18:27 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Andrew Balding’s Bellum Justum will head straight to the Betfred Derby after his Blue Riband Trial triumph at Epsom. The Sea The Stars colt ran four times as a juvenile, ending his season on a high note when winning a Newmarket maiden over a mile in late September. He returned to action at Epsom earlier […]
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• United FA Cup collapse inspired Mullins to stay focused

  25-04-2024 17:44 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Willie Mullins is taking nothing for granted ahead of what could be a thrilling conclusion to the British trainers’ title race at Sandown this weekend. After following up the Grand National victory of I Am Maximus with a four-timer at Ayr that included Macdermott’s win in the Scottish Grand National, the Closutton maestro is in […]
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• Battling Bowen vows to keep pushing title rival Cobden

  25-04-2024 17:22 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Win, lose, or draw, Sean Bowen is determined to take plenty of pride from his jockeys’ championship battle with Harry Cobden, which is set to go right down to the wire. The 26-year-old had built up a substantial lead before suffering an injury at Aintree on Boxing Day. His time on the sidelines allowed Cobden […]
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• Tributes pour in for Olivier Peslier following final rides

  25-04-2024 16:53 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Andre Fabre labelled Olivier Peslier as “one of the greats” as the 51-year-old took his last rides at La Teste on Thursday. Peslier announced on Tuesday that he had decided to bring his long and illustrious career in the saddle to an end, bowing out with over 3,700 winners to his name. Peslier was out […]
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