The ratings mentioned are the result of my own handicap method based on a horses ability to reach Grade one form through time and efficiency. This is… Read more “Cheltenham 2024”

Lossiemouth (156) was an unlucky loser in the Spring Juvenile Hurdle at the DRF but it is hard to fancy a four year old filly to recover… Read more “Cheltenham 2023 – Day 4”

Mighty Potter (168) looks bombproof in the Turners Novices Chase, based on his Ladbrokes Novices Chase win on the bridle and his Drinmore defeat when putting 19… Read more “Cheltenham 2023 – Day 3”

Ballymore Novices Hurdle Hermes Allen (165) looks a class act. His quick silver jumping and easy wide margain victories over course and distance and in the Challow… Read more “Cheltenham 2023 – Day 2”

Cheltenham Festival 2023 – Day 1 Facile Vega (170) will go off favourite for the Supreme Novices Hurdle and last year’s Champion Bumper is a backable price… Read more “Cheltenham 2023 – Day 1”

CHELTENHAM 2022 The dystopian nightmare awful silence that eerily deafened the almost empty stands of pandemic hit Cheltenham 2021 will be a faint dying ember when the… Read more “Cheltenham Festival 2022”

The Irish Stallion Farms EBF Paddy Mullins Mares Handicap Hurdle eases into day two and the Elliott trained Glan (133) should be ten pounds ahead of the… Read more “Dublin Racing Festival 2022 day 2”

The inseption of the Dublin Racing Festival into the National Hunt programme was as meritorious as it were overdue. The calender recalibration of the Irish Gold Cup… Read more “Dublin Racing Festival Day 1”

The dystopian nightmare that is the barren grandstands and remote desert winning posts that surround the Cheltenham Festival 2021 shadow the usual boisterousness from the absent crowd,… Read more “Cheltenham 2021”