Stewards Set To Become Stars Of The Show?

The forthcoming ‘King George VI’ meeting at Ascot and the following week’s extravaganza at Glorious Goodwood will, for the first time, include televised stewards’ inquiries, writes Elliot Slater. The screening of the deliberations of the British stewards is all part of a move to try and bring more transparency to the process of assessing whether […]

Tiger To Tame Europe?

Despite being a year to forget, both on and off the golf course, for the current world number one Tiger Woods, don’t bet against him defying the form guide to help inspire Team USA to beat the odds and retain the Ryder Cup. Whilst Tiger has endured his most difficult season since he turned professional, […]

Jockeys Attend Meetings Too…

And there I was, thinking that jockeys had a straightforward kind of existence – go to work, ride lots of horses all day, come home, get up the next day and do the same thing all over again, bar a few races of course…but you know what I mean, a nice life where they don’t […]

Indian Fans Could Be In For Disappointment

Tennis will make its debut at the Commonwealth Games in October in New Delhi, but it remains to be seen what the strength of the men’s and women’s singles tournaments will be. The sport is immensely popular in India, and with not that many of the leading players in the world actually qualifying for the […]

Westwood Annoyed By Missed Chances

Lee Westwood was left frustrated following his second round at the British Open today after he recorded a one-under-par 71. The Englishman missed several chances on the greens and played a lot better than his score suggests. Westwood said “If I was sitting here at 10, 11 or 12 under that would reflect the way […]

Betting Industry Turns Back On Racing

The news that two of the most high profile bookmaker PR figures have left the business is just the latest in a recent wave of indicators that suggest that racing is rapidly falling down the list of Horse race betting bookmakers priority interests, writes Elliot Slater. Both the veteran Neal Wilkins, head of PR for […]

Fallon and Murtagh Lead the Way Around Epsom

After Michael Kinane hung up his riding boots at the end of last season having partnered the imperious Sea The Stars to victory at Epsom, there are just two active riders left to share the accolade of most successful Epsom Derby jockey, writes Elliot Slater. Although he has been through more than his fair share […]

Is Chief Dan George The Chief Indeed?

Is Chief Dan George The Chief Indeed? Fresh Hope For The National After A Spectacular Win At Cheltenham by Jessica Greenbaum of Horse Racing UK No one would have dared to call Chief Dan George and average horse – but neither was he being hailed as a particularly exciting contender. Now however, after a surprising […]

Fergie To Win Gold Cup?

The 2009 Gold Cup final entrants have just been announced today and the field of runners has gone from 37 entrants down to 21 for the race this Saturday (November 28th) the prize for the winner is a cool £200,000! Previous winner Denman takes the top weight along and the shortest odds at 4/1. Jockey […]

Arsenal March On

Arsenal’s youngsters are still on track to win the Carling Cup after being matched at 2.38 on Betfair to beat a similarly second-string Liverpool side. Fran Merida was matched at 17.5 to open the scoring and the Gunners were matched at just 1.17 to be leading at half-time before Emiliano Insua hit back for Liverpool. […]