6 h. ago Horse racing tips: ‘He bolted in at Cheltenham and is still well handicapped’ – Templegate’s 5

TEMPLEGATE takes on one of the best Saturdays of racing all year confident of hammering the bookies. Back a horse simply by clicking their odds below. MYRETOWN (2.55 Newbury, NAP) Produced one of the performances of the Cheltenham Festival in the spring. He absolutely bolted up in the Ultima and still looks well-handicapped for trainers...

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17 h. ago England goal machine quit football then won millions on the horses

A former England striker has earned more from horse training than his entire football career after buying his first horse for just £440 and winning grade one races around the globe

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38 h. ago Oscar Piastri sends Lando Norris shock message with Max Verstappen ready to pounce on F1 championship

It’s a three-horse race for the top prize in Formula One

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3 d. ago Chris Sutton declares Rangers title contenders but January influence of 'shrewd cookie' means it's a three horse race

Tony Bloom being on board at Hearts will make for an interesting January as Sutty sees it going down to the wire this season

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4 d. ago Willie Mullins pulls five horses from King George entries but leaves Gaelic Warrior to lead his team on Boxing Day

WILLIE MULLINS did some late chopping and changing in his King George entries - pulling five horses after originally putting them in the race. But it looks like the Closutton boss is all set to rely on Gaelic Warrior in the huge Boxing Day blockbuster. Rich Ricci's ultra-talented seven-year-old downed stablemate Fact To File in...

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8 d. ago Racing is halted as air ambulance attends 'nasty' jockey fall

Emergency services attend the racecourse following after a jockey fell from his horse.

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1 week ago Three jockeys banned as Plumpton race descends into chaos due to confusion over a flag

Daisy Warden, Tommie O’Brien and Harry O’Dwyer were given seven days by the BHA stewards for incorrectly pulling up their horses when they spotted the black and white chequered flag

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1 week ago Glasgow hat shop shuts down after almost SEVEN decades as owners admit ‘heavy hearts’

ONE of Scotland's oldest hat stores is closing after more than six decades with owners revealing their heartbreak of having to shut shop. Ella Bulloch Hats & Accessories announced the devastating news after 61 years of trading. The firm, based in Muirend, Glasgow, provides headwear for grand events like weddings and horse races. In a...

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2 w. ago Templegate’s Tote Placepot tips for Cheltenham with £250,000 guaranteed on Saturday

THE Placepot is a bet where you select a horse to be placed in the FIRST SIX races of any meeting. You can pick more than one horse in a race – you just multiply the number of selections in each race to calculate your stake. So for staking it’s 2x2x1x2x2x2 which adds up to...

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2 w. ago Racing chiefs to investigate after wrong JP McManus horse runs in race at Punchestown

Centreofattention ran in the 2m½f novice chase instead of Enda Bolger stablemate Don't Tell Jack. The matter will be referred to a senior official, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has confirmed

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2 w. ago Estate agent dies after fall from horse during race as friends pay tribute to ‘competitive & kind

AN ESTATE agent has died after falling from a horse during a race as tributes pour in for the "competitive and kind-hearted woman". Geraldine White fell from her horse Emeer during an endurance event in Moreton, Dorset last month. The 76-year-old was taking part in an endurance ride that involved 120 competitors just outside Dorchester...

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3 w. ago James Bowen horse's bad mistake sees jockey's brother Sean profit on Haiti Couleurs

Bill Baxter looked set for victory in the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle at Newbury, but he blundered away his chance and Cheltenham Gold Cup hope Haiti Couleurs took advantage

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3 w. ago Melbourne Cup 2025: Jamie Melham follows in Michelle Payne’s footsteps with win aboard Half Yours

Melham becomes second woman to win famous race over 3200mJockey and horse complete Caulfield-Melbourne Cup doubleJockey Jamie Melham became the second woman to win the Melbourne Cup after Half Yours saluted on a wet track under cloudy skies at Flemington, in front of around 80,000 spectators. The five-year-old gelding – the only Australian-bred horse in the race – finished two lengths ahead of Goodie Two Shoes, with Middle Earth third.Interviewed on the track immediately afterwards, Melham, who created history as the first female jockey to complete the Caulfield-Melbourne Cups double, said: “What just happened? Oh my god”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago President JD Vance or Marco Rubio? We’re seeing the first signs of the battle over Trump's succession | Simon Tisdall

It’s currently a two-horse race – and the next US leader is guaranteed to be a careerist who knows nothing of statesmanshipMillions of Americans yearn for 7 November 2028, the scheduled date of the next presidential election. That’s the day the Trump era effectively ends. Probably. That’s the day the Democrats will atone for Kamala Harris’s calamitous 2024 failure. Possibly. That’s the day US democracy is reborn. Hopefully. Succession talk is tantalising Washington. Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, has given the clearest sign yet that he’ll run and glossing over past blunders, Harris reckons she deserves a second chance.Yet most attention is focused on the Republicans, after Trump, 79, again threatened to defy the constitution and seek a third term. “I would love to do it,” he said this week. He rowed back later, albeit unconvincingly. “We’ll see what happens,” he teased. This undignified narcissist’s electoral fan dance will drag on interminably. Of greater practical interest a...

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