Stories By The Racing Ahead Team
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoAPPRECIATE IT TO SERVE UP A TREAT
Ben Morgan previews the opening day’s races Supreme Novices Hurdle Arguably one of the races of the meeting is the opening...
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Andre Lowrie Optimum Racing
/ 4 years agoHOUSTON GIVES US LIFT-OFF!
Andrew Lowrie of Optimum Racing shares his betting secrets Back in October’s edition of Racing Ahead, I wrote about the importance...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoSAINT CALVADOS HAS THE CLASS TO WIN
RYANAIR CHASE Ben Morgan takes us through the third day’s action Turners Novices Chase If Willie Mullins thinks this is the...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoNUBE NEGRA READY TO SHINE
Ben Morgan looks at Queen Mother Chase day Ballymore Novices Hurdle This race relies heavily on which balls get drawn out...
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Big Interview
/ 4 years agoI’M LIVING MY DREAM THANKS TO ONE BIG BET
Talking to Ben Keith, founder of Star Sports Ata time when the hoardings are going up outside closed betting shops in...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoPIPE CALLS THE TUNE IN IMPERIAL
Andrew Newton assesses the main trends for Sandown Park challenge As we race towards the 2022 Cheltenham Festival there is bundles...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years ago‘PLAY BOY’ TOM HAS BECOME A MAN
Nick Townsend talks to Emma Lavelle’s stable jockey Tom Bellamy Tom Bellamy rides Splash Of Ginge to victory in the BetVictor...
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All Weather
/ 4 years agoLIAM BREAKS THE 1,000 BARRIER
Ian Heitman with a round-up of the latest events on AW tracks Liam Keniry added his name to those jockeys who...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoELLIOTT HOLDS GOLDEN KEY
Zak Howells with some more Cheltenham pointers We can be certain we have seen just about every horse on the track...
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Robert Cooper
/ 4 years agoI WAS MR PLUM, PIONEER OF RACE REPORTS
Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, remembers those far off days when his mellifluous voice first floated into betting shops...
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Paul Jacobs
/ 4 years agoMY TIPS TO TAKE ON IRISH ‘MACHINES’
Paul Jacobs with his big-price ante-post fancies We focus on it for a year and then when it is on our...
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Irish Racing
/ 4 years agoCHELTENHAM CLUES ARE EVERYWHERE
Karl Hedley rounds up the action from the Dublin Racing Festival Ahead of another action packed Cheltenham Festival, I shall provide...
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Form Guide
/ 4 years agoONES TO FOLLOW
JOCKEYS AT THE CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL SINCE 2010 (MIN FIVE RIDES) TRAINERS AT THE CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL SINCE 2010 (MIN FIVE RUNS) ......
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoWELCOME
CHELTENHAM was still a fantastic meeting in 2021 but there was one vital element missing – the famous roar that goes...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoRACHEL’S THE HURDLES SPECIALIST
Graham Buddry with his expert analysis of riders to follow – and avoid! As regular readers of Racing Ahead know, I...
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Paul Ferguson
/ 4 years agoMULLINS CAN TEAR IT UP AGAIN
Paul Fergson with his quartet to follow at the Festival GAELIC WARRIOR (W P Mullins) Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle I’m trying...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoPROTEKTORAT OFFERS THE REAL VALUE
GOLD CUP Ben Morgan guides us through the final day’s racing JCB Triumph Hurdle You’d get a short price on an...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoJOURNEY INTO WINNER’S ENCLOSURE
Next Gen Racing aims at a young audience Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Cheltenham Festival is within touching distance. It is...
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Newmark Report
/ 4 years agoQUEEN MAY BE OVER THE MOON THIS SEASON
Dave Youngman with his round-up of news from HQ We are now in my favourite month of March when things start...
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Picks from the Paddock
/ 4 years agoTHIS BUBBLE WON’T BURST JUST YET
Andrew Ayres with some more eye-catchers NEWBURY January 19 (good to soft) 2m4f110y mares’ novice hurdle (Class 4) IMPRESSIVE WINNER SPEECH...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoBIG BUCK’S WAS A BIG TALENT – EVENTUALLY!
Graham Buddry remembers the mighty staying hurdler If only is probably the saddest phrase in the human lexicon, normally describing a...
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Robert Cooper
/ 4 years agoPONY RACE STARS OF THE FUTURE
Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, on a brilliant crop of young riders and his apparently self-driving VW Golf According...
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Form Guide
/ 4 years agoENGINE STILL RUNNING FOR SHISKIN
John Anthony puts his stopwatch on the speedsters MISTER FISHER (80) clocked the best time of the month over fences when...
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Diary of an Amateur Punter
/ 4 years agoCARIBEAN BOY BRINGS ME SUNSHINE
Ben Morgan gets a much-needed lift late on in the month As Ede’iffs Elton got chinned on the line at Wincanton...
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News
/ 4 years agoIDA GOES FOR DOUBLE GOLD
Paul Jacobs on his courageous (outrageous!) punt The Dublin Festival and the Betfair Hurdle are the main punting points in February....
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoTRAVAIL CAN MAKE A MARK IN HANDICAPS
Jeremy Grayson goes hunting for winners HUNTINGDON, 14 January (Soft, good to soft places on hurdles course) 1m7f171yds (+48yds) Juvenile Hurdle...
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All Weather
/ 4 years agoVENTURIOUS STRIKES AT 25/1
Ian Heitman reviews the latest action Field sizes for the better allweather races, class 2 and class 3, often come under...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoWELCOME
Heard about the race horse trainer who decided to move his yard into a golf course? Well, you have now and...
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Andre Lowrie Optimum Racing
/ 4 years agoSORROWS COME BUT WE PREVAIL
Andrew Lowrie of Optimum Racing shares his betting secrets Covering the Christmas and New Year period, I continue my quest to...
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Racing Ahead
/ 4 years agoBEN ON COURSE TO GO WEll OVER PAR!
Nick Townsend talks to trainer Ben Pauling Shakem Up’Arry with owner Harry Rednapp, Ben Pauling, the young Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer destined...





