Sceau Royal has now put up two impressive looking performances this season with two wide margin successes to boot. As notable as his runs have appeared to be; I do not believe that he has been quite as good as he has looked. He...

The favourite One Track Mind has easily the best hurdles rating coming into this contest. Consequently, one can understand how he has opened up at odds of around 6/4. I think he deserves to be ahead of today’s rivals on what he has achieved...

The obvious place to start is with the 5/2 favourite God’s Own from the Tom George yard. He has put four quality runs in a row together lately which is a real positive as he could not previously have been described as a consistent...

It is hard to know what to make of Cue Card’s performance last time out in the Charlie Hall Chase. On the one hand horses that improve for a breathing operation do not tend to maintain that improvement indefinitely. On the other it is...

This Grade 2 contest is an interesting race for our opening preview for the 2016/2017 Cheltenham Trail. I was impressed with the Nicky Henderson trained Baden in his three races last season. I felt he was seriously disadvantaged by taking the unfavoured inside route...