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Grand National 2024: Lucinda Russell bids to make history with Corach Rambler

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Lucinda Russell has admitted winning the Aintree Grand National is “incredibly addictive” as she bids to become the most successful female trainer in the race’s history. The Kinross-based handler won the world’s greatest steeplechase for a second time in 2023 when Corach Rambler triumphed at Aintree, six years after One For Arthur crossed the line […]

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Cheltenham Festival 2024: National Hunt Chase to be run in honour of Maureen Mullins

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The Grade Two National Hunt Chase, staged on Champion Day at The Cheltenham Festival 2024 (Tuesday 12th March), will be run in honour of the late Maureen Mullins. Mullins, who sadly passed away aged 94 on 14th February, was the matriarch of an outstanding Irish racing dynasty. Her late husband Paddy saddled half a dozen

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Lunar Eclipse moves Hayley Turner up to 999 wins

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Hayley Turner moved on to career winner number 999 after working her magic aboard Lunar Eclipse. Their rivals were put in the shade in the second division of the Betfred TV British EBF Fillies’ Novice Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday 4th November.  Having reportedly only bloomed at home in the last month according to her

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Jockey Elizabeth Gale rides Aintree winner – less than three years after breaking her back

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Elizabeth Gale described her victory aboard Celebre D’Allen as a ‘massive deal’ after the conditional jockey secured her biggest victory since recovering from a broken back in the Jewson Vieux Lion Rouge Veterans’ Handicap Chase at Aintree.  Less than three years after recovering from breaking two vertebrae following a point-to-point fall, the 21-year-old was beaming with delight

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Hollie Doyle has now Won at every UK Flat Racecourse with Victory in 2023 Carlisle Bell

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Hollie Doyle has now completed the feat of winning a race at every UK Flat racecourse, with her victory in the 2023 running of the historic Carlisle Bell. Hollie Doyle found the ideal opportunity to ride her first winner at Carlisle, by striking in the 424-year old Stablemate By Agma Carlisle Bell Handicap on board the

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Grand National 2023: Grand Women’s Summit returns on Ladies’ Day

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The Grand Women’s Summit returns once again to Aintree Racecourse in 2023, taking place on Ladies Day (Friday 14th April) at the Randox Grand National Festival. First staged in 2015 and in now in its eighth year, the Grand Women’s Summit returned as an in-person event in 2022 having been held virtually in 2021 due

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Guineas Festival 2023: Race to be named after first UK woman to hold training licence

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Guineas Festival 2023: A forgotten racehorse trainer who was the first woman in the UK to be issued with a training licence in 1886 is to have a race at The QIPCO Guineas Festival renamed in her honour, The Jockey Club has announced. Ellen Chaloner has lain in an unmarked grave in Newmarket Cemetery since

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Glorious Goodwood 2022: The Magnolia Cup

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Glorious Goodwood and The Magnolia Cup 2022: The much-anticipated 11th Markel Magnolia Cup will come under starters’ orders at Qatar Goodwood Festival on Thursday 28th July 2022. The race took its name from the flourishing 290-year-old Magnolia grandifloras at Goodwood House following the 2nd Duke’s enthusiasm for horticulture, and since its inception 11 years ago,

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Grand National Ladies – Nina Carberry

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Nina Carberry, born on 21st July, 1984, comes from a famous Irish racing family. Rumour has it that the Carberry children (like their great friends the Walshes) are taught to ride before they can walk, and that’s probably not a joke. Her father Tommy rode the 1975 Grand National winner L’Escargot, subsequently training Bobbyjo for

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Cheltenham Festival 2022: Honeysuckle Makes History in Champion Hurdle

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Honeysuckle created history on the opening day of Cheltenham Festival 2022 by becoming the first mare to win the Grade One Unibet Champion Hurdle twice.  Repeating her success of 2021, the eight year old was the three and half-length winner from Epatante, the 2020 winner. Zanahiyr was another length away in third. With jockey Rachel

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