Coco Beach has added to the strength of the Irish challenge for the March leg of the Crystal Cup with a stirring victory in today’s PP Hogan Memorial Cross Country at Punchestown. The 11/8 favourite was prominent throughout, taking up the running at the 18th and putting distance between him and runners-up Genois and Fameaftertheglory, […]
The Pau season reached its climax yesterday with the Grand Prix de Pau Foie Gras Biraben, the course’s marquee steeplechase, won by In Love under the guidance of Nicholas Gauffenic for Hugo Merienne, which took place in front of a bumper crowd of over 14,000.
Whilst the top chasers have been gracing Pau during the 10 […]
Pau’s winter season is halfway through, and there were definitive clues for the Grand Cross de Pau in 3 weeks’ time last week for the first Cross Country chase of the campaign on Friday last – the Prix John Henry Wright.
A select 4 runners went to post for the €52,000 prize over 5,000m, headed by […]
The pace of change can be infinitesimally slow in horseracing’s conservative circles. Purists of the sport are often able to articulate their views to retain the status quo and hinder progress. This manifests itself in the example of Cheltenham’s cross country races, introduced to a previous generation of spectators in 1995, 30 years ago. Yet […]
Cheltenham’s cross country races are rapidly acquiring a reputation as a proving ground for the Grand National, and Friday’s seventh stage of the Crystal Cup delivered on all counts. Whilst entries for the Aintree spectacular are still some way off, at least half the field is working its way toward a suitable handicap mark to […]