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Dublin Racing Festival

Dublin Racing Festival

The first ever Dublin Racing Festival takes place at Leopardstown this weekend. Over two days there will be seven Grade 1 races on the card. It promises to be a really good weekend of racing. You can view the ‘official’ website : –

https://www.leopardstown.com/Dublin-Racing-Festival/

What is the Dublin Racing Festival?

Traditionally Leopardstown has hosted some key features races, but well spaced apart over three meetings. The Dublin Racing Festival is a streamlined merger of the three meetings, wrapped into a …

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Cheltenham Preview Day 3

Cheltenham Preview Day 3

Let me start by saying this is my opinion on the forthcoming racing. I am not saying this is the oracle, it is only my view and is written to help the non-racing people get a feeling for the day’s racing. If somehow you can profit from it, then it is a bonus

JLT Novices Chase

I am not sure you will find a more competitive race this week and to my eye the betting is slightly wrong. I am

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Chester May Festival

Chester May Festival

Chester May festival starts today and it’s a welcome addition to the card, but based upon previous years it’s nothing amazing from a trading viewpoint.

Obviously we all love some extra liquidity that the quality racing will bring, but it’s never been a meeting that I’ve got really good amounts from. By that I mean I’m not banging in three figure results a race. Just the odd one or two a day. The thing to note about Chester is its

06/05/2015 | By | Reply More
Punchestown Festival

Punchestown Festival

The Punchestown Festival this week is a good opportunity to get tucked into some good quality Irish racing.

The jumps finale offers a decent prize fund and total prize money today is £283,000, versus one tenth of that on the UK meetings.

Irish racing is much weaker than UK racing typically, doing about half of what you expect on a UK race, but the good quality stuff can produce decent volume. So it always worth a look. The Punchestown festival

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Ready for the roar?

Ready for the roar?

So here we are, after deleting countless emails in your inbox about the bloody thing, the Cheltenahm festival is right on our doorstep.

The first day looks like it could be a little tricky. Only two cards on today and Cheltenham is being put back one race after a very cold spell overnight. Sometimes this can work quite well as the volumes will be higher come the actual start of the race. But each year has always been slightly different …

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