When an invitation came in to the bettrends office to attend a Cheltenham Festival media day at Nicky Henderson’s Seven Barrows Stable in Lambourn, there was no shortage of volunteers willing to report back for our readers. Fortunately, I was given the green light and so this morning I headed off towards Newbury full of [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Cheltenham Festival is fast approaching and with the excitement building everyday, we at Bettrends took the fantastic opportunity to visit Paul Nicholls at his stables to get a sneak preview of his top string for the festival. As we entered the courtyard stables, the atmopshere was buzzing with anticipation of seeing some of the greatest [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
A small but select crowd turned out for an open day at Pond House featuring some of David Pipe’s leading hopes for this year’s Festival. Plenty of questions were fired at him regarding his leading hope for the race named in his father’s honour, the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle, but sadly he refused to [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Paul Nicholls Open Day – Wednesday February 18th With the build up to the Cheltenham Festival really hitting top gear a good number turned out at Paul Nicholls’ yard for a Cheltenham organised open day last Wednesday. He paraded around 20 horses and was happy to answer questions, the majority of which centred on Denman with [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
There was quite a good turn out at Alan King’s Barbury Castle yard on Monday, when members of the Press were invited to watch a parade of the Scotsman’s Festival entries. With the recent snowy conditions nothing but a distant memory, a warm winter’s sun shone down as some of the country’s leading chasers and [...]
Monday, March 1, 2010