Paul Kealy

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Paul Kealy |David Carr

Sandown's Brigadier Gerard Stakes has a history of being used as a springboard to Group 1 success, and recent winners include Hukum, who went on to land the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes next time out, Lord North, who took the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot on his next start, and Poet's Word, who won both.

2 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Paul Kealy |David Milnes

Capital Guarantee will take some stopping if in anything like the form he produced on Saturday at Thirsk, where he shot clear just inside the final furlong in a mile handicap to win by two and a half lengths, his jockey Danny Tudhope taking long looks over his shoulders more than 100 yards from the line.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Paul Kealy |David Milnes

Every penny counts for Dan Skelton as he attempts to build a big enough cushion to fend off Willie Mullins for the British trainers' championship, and Hidden History, a likely short-priced favourite for this 2m4f handicap hurdle, is one of 18 runners he has across three cards compared with just one for Mullins.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | James Stevens |Paul Kealy

The layers expect Willie Mullins to get the better of this battle, as his Sainte Tartare is forecast to go off favourite while Dan Skelton's hurdles debutant Settle Down Jill is one of the outsiders. Sainte Tartare was off the mark on her third attempt over hurdles, winning by a wide margin on heavy ground at Limerick in January. She has never raced on good ground and missed her intended debut last August because of it, but is a half-sister to four winners, three of whom handled it fine.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Paul Kealy |James Stevens

The Challenger Series Final, of which this is one of two at Cheltenham with a couple more to come at Haydock, gives Dan Skelton a tiny edge over Willie Mullins in the battle for the trainers' championship as the latter will not have had any run in qualifiers. How much prize-money he can collect from fiercely competitive races is another matter, and his sole representative here, Pawapuri, has19 rivals to deal with.