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1 month ago | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry |Jack Haynes |Joe Eccles
Wathnan follow familiar path to Ascot for promising juvenilesBy Sam HendryThe early part of the Flat season has been dominated by racing superpowers Godolphin, Coolmore and Juddmonte, but another rising force, Wathnan Racing, can also be satisfied with how their abundance of expensively assembled juveniles are shaping up for Royal Ascot.
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1 month ago | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry |Jack Haynes
London Gold Cup form worth following againBy Sam HendryThere can’t be many handicaps which have a better record at producing future stars than Newbury’s London Gold Cup. Subsequent Group 1 winners Bay Bridge, Defoe and Time Test feature in the recent roll of honour, and last year’s running remarkably threw up the Triumph Hurdle winner as well, with Poniros finishing second when still representing Amo Racing.
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1 month ago | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry |Harry Wilson
Future looks bright for Emmet MullinsBy Sam HendryFour winners across the last two days at Punchestown saw Emmet Mullins finish the season with a bang and helped him set a new personal best for prize-money earnings, fuelled by strikes in some valuable handicaps earlier in the campaign.
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2 months ago | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry |Harry Wilson
New trip for Jonbon could lead to spectacular King GeorgeBy Sam HendryBritain's jumps season may be over but that simply means our hopes and dreams for the 2025-26 campaign are alive and well with nothing to yet dampen them, so before we fully enter Flat mode, two performances at Sandown on Saturday really whetted the appetite for what could be a King George VI Chase to savour.
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2 months ago | 
racingpost.com | Tom Park |Sam Hendry
Munir and Souede have live Royal Ascot contenderBy Sam HendryThe double-green silks of Simon Munir and Isaac Souede are a regular sight around Ascot in the jumps season, and they could be seen there again this summer but this time for the royal meeting on the Flat after an eyecatching success at the Curragh on Saturday.
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Mar 23, 2025 | 
racingpost.com | Matt Butler |Sam Hendry |Harry Wilson
Smart recruit for Hobbs and WhiteBy Sam HendryPhilip Hobbs and Johnson White have made steady strides together in their second full season as joint licence-holders. After just 31 winners in 2022-23, the lowest number of winners sent out by Hobbs since 1988-89, the yard had 34 last season but that has gone up to 48 and counting this campaign, a tally made to look even better by the accompanying 20 per cent strike-rate.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry |Harry Wilson |Lewis Porteous
The 2m maiden hurdle at Fairyhouse on Saturday promised to be informative and so it proved as Kawaboomga enhanced his Cheltenham Festival claims, while the narrow runner-up William Munny did his own chances no harm given how far the first two pulled clear of the rest. And the result did plenty to boost the claims of two other prominent novice hurdlers who beat Saturday’s one-two over Christmas.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry
It is exactly eight weeks until the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle kicks off the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Usually by this stage of the season we have a firm grasp on the main contenders and who is likely to show up at Prestbury Park in March, but after a series of trials that have thrown up more questions than answers, there are only two runners currently priced at single-figure odds. Here we take a look at the meeting opener and the ante-post picture for a big betting race.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry |Joe Eccles
Gold Cup entries reveal a 33-1 ante-post playThere are just five British-trained horses among 19 entries for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, with Dan Skelton’s Grey Dawning the shortest-priced domestic challenger at 25-1. Skelton is plotting a route back to Cheltenham for last year’s Turners Novices’ Chase winner, who was pulled up in the King George at Kempton last time.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
racingpost.com | Sam Hendry
It is January 2024. Jonbon has won the Tingle Creek and is being prepared for the Clarence House on the road towards the Champion Chase. Constitution Hill is taking it easy after winning the Christmas Hurdle on Boxing Day at Kempton, where stablemate Sir Gino posted an impressive victory the following day. The outlook at Seven Barrows heading towards the Cheltenham Festival is a rosy one.
