Having produced just under 3,000 bespoke diaries and calendars during December, for clients such as the Royal Ascot Racing Club, Highclere Racing, Manor House Stables, Racing Welfare and Hamilton Park and Ffos Las racecourses, Weatherbys are now looking ahead to the Cheltenham Festival for which we can produce customised versions of the much acclaimed Cheltenham [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Time For Rupert bids for further Cheltenham success Trainer Paul Webber is hoping for a good run from his promising second season chaser Time For Rupert, when he returns to Cheltenham for the £100,000 Grade Two Argento Chase on Festival Trials Day, this Saturday, January 28. The eight-year-old, owned by the Littlecote Racing Partnership, was [...]
Friday, January 20, 2012
Tim Vaughan – trainer of the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle fancy Ballyrock Cheltenham hosts an exciting seven-race card on Festival Trials Day, Saturday, January 28, which is the last fixture at the home of Jump racing before The Festival in March. Ballyrock, who finished a very promising second to Fingal Bay in the Grade [...]
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Big Buck’s – Record Breaker? Big Buck’s features among 34 entries for this year’s £260,000 Grade One Ladbrokes World Hurdle as he bids to capture the three-mile championship contest for a record fourth consecutive time at The Festival on St Patrick’s Thursday, March 15. The Stewart Family’s phenomenal hurdler is unbeaten in 14 starts over [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Legends of the game – Ginger McCain & Red Rum A bronze portrait bust has been commissioned by Aintree Racecourse of the four-time Grand National winning trainer, Donald ‘Ginger’ McCain, who passed away at the age of 80 in September last year. McCain’s achievements and long association with the racecourse that helped make Red Rum [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Defending champion Hurricane Fly features among a total of 27 entries for this year’s £370,000 Grade 1 Stan James Champion Hurdle, highlight of the first day of The Festival at Cheltenham, Champion Day, Tuesday, March 13. The Willie Mullins-trained eight-year-old recorded an authoritative length and a quarter victory in the extended two-mile championship contest last [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Ahead of this week’s 2011 Sports Personality of the Year Award, leading online betting comparison site www.oddschecker.com has noticed a steady shortening of odds on a Mark Cavendish victory in line with growing social media support behind the Manxman. Britain’s supreme cycling sprinter is now clear favourite to win the award at 2/5. Second favourite, [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
It was announced yesterday that Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney, in partnership with his wife Coleen, will have a two-year-old in training with Tom Dascombe in 2012. The colt by Bahamian Bounty out of the Group 3 placed mare, Amazon Beauty, will be housed in Cheshire at Manor House Stables, unsurprisingly, owned by [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012