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Chris McGrath: My Gacho the banker to start winning roll as Scoop6 swells to record £5m
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Stan Hey: 6-5 Against
Saturday, 22 November 2008
There's no doubt where most punters' attention will be focused today: not on football, boxing or rugby but on the Tote Scoop6. After several Saturdays when the main pot and its bonus fund have not been won, the pools could swell towards £5m before the action starts. The bet has become bigger than events around it.
King's decline forces retirement
Friday, 21 November 2008
The old king shuffles off at last, leaving his successors still struggling for supremacy.
Star's leftovers cause a scramble
Thursday, 20 November 2008
The combination of an apparently invincible rival and, tantalisingly, a great deal of prize-money has provoked an outbreak of pragmatism ahead of Saturday's Betfair Chase at Haydock.
Nicholls' Pride can be redeemed
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
There may be profit and pleasure this winter from these jumpers to follow
Binocular's sights set on Festival title
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Having gone back to the future with Hardy Eustace, the Smurfit Champion Hurdle rankings remain in need of refreshment.
Walsh to miss Kauto ride again
Monday, 17 November 2008
The whole premise of the formbook is that history has a habit of repeating itself, but it seldom does so with such agonising precision.
Hardy Eustace puts young pretenders in place
Monday, 17 November 2008
No thoroughbred in these islands has more medals on his chest than Hardy Eustace, and he does not take indulgently to insubordination. Challenged yesterday by perhaps the most insolently gifted of the younger hurdlers, Sizing Europe, the veteran furiously pulled rank.
David Ashdown's Sports Picture Diary: Cheltenham
Monday, 17 November 2008
Rain is the sports photographer's enemy. And it proved to be the case again yesterday at Cheltenham.
Tough Imperial Commander claims the Power and glory
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Partnership of Brennan and Twiston-Davies strikes gold at their local track
Chris McGrath: Mister McGoldrick attracts at 40-1 to take the wind out of Nicholls' sails
Saturday, 15 November 2008
It took years of cut-throat competition for Paul Nicholls to relieve Martin Pipe of the trainers' championship, but he has since taken the concept to literal extremes. Nowadays, whenever a horse enters his yard, more or less his first instinct is to take a scalpel to its larynx. Every autumn he stands in the winner's enclosure, again and again, and breezily announces: "This was another one that had a breathing operation during the summer." Perhaps one day his despairing rivals will desist from cutting their own throats, and heed his example.
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