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  1. archie

    Aintree 2025 Day 3

    https://www.racingpost.com/racecards/32/aintree/2025-04-05 Entries and weights for Saturday. Strong Leader at 6/1 seems huge each way in the 3.05..
  2. archie

    Aintree 2025 Day 2

    https://www.racingpost.com/racecards/32/aintree/2025-04-04 Entries and weights. As ever, the Topham looks competitive and the Mildmay Novice could be informative if the principals stand their ground.
  3. archie

    Aintree 2025 Day 1

    https://www.racingpost.com/racecards/32/aintree/2025-04-03 Entries and weights. Always the best racing day of the three and looking well up to standard this year as long as they can maintain the going.
  4. archie

    2024 Advance Going Report

    Issued this morning at 9.11 Chase - MILDMAY Soft Hurdle - MILDMAY Soft Chase - NATIONAL Soft, Heavy (in places) Weather: Forecast: An unsettled outlook with some more persistent rain towards the end of the week. Remaining unsettled into next week. ​
  5. archie

    Drf 2023

    Think this is worth a thread of its own. Saturday early closers: https://status.hri-ras.ie/entries/Microsoft_Word__2023_ONOR026.PDF?id=1&v=20230113103011 Sunday early closers: https://status.hri-ras.ie/entries/Microsoft_Word__2023_ONOR027.PDF?id=1&v=20230113103011 Looks like a small field for...
  6. archie

    Leopardstown & Limerick Christmas meetings

    PP betting indicates that Mullins runners in the Savills will be Janidil Kemboy Melon Tornado Flyer All cut or static in the betting today. Allaho, ABP and Asterion Forlonge all on the drift.
  7. archie

    Dublin Racing Festival 2022

    Change of race order. https://www.irishracing.com/news?headline=Change-of-race-order-for-Dublin-Racing-Festival&prid=223298
  8. archie

    Punchestown 2021

    https://www.hri.ie/content/press-office/press-releases/history-makers-and-record-breakers-on-course-for-punchestown-festival-as-grade-1-entries-revealed/
  9. archie

    Forum Horse Connections

    Rather than resurrect the old thread that was originally about the Owners Club, I thought I'd create a new one where anyone should feel free to list and give news about any horses in which they have shares. For non-owners, I can't speak for others but I'll be as open as possible while...
  10. archie

    2020 Weather and Going

    A central place for any news on weather and going for the Festival. Starting with a copy of Ryan's post in another thread. Simon Claisse on The Cheltenham Going “The ground is predominantly soft on the chase and hurdle courses with a little bit of heavy on the intersections and a little bit...
  11. archie

    How many Festival caps do you have?

    Someone (sorry, can't remember who) posted the other day that they had x number of caps where x = number of Festival days attended. My tally is Gold Cup day 1979 - 1 All 3 days 1983-2000 apart from 1994 Champion Hurdle day - 53 First 2 days 2002-2019 - 36 Thursday 2017 & Friday 2019 - 2 x = 92...
  12. archie

    Christmas meetings in Ireland

    G1 entries by clicking links on here: https://status.hri-ras.ie/race-meetings.aspx
  13. archie

    Ordinary World

    I had to do a double take when I saw this horse entered up on Friday in a race for horses that have won no more than one steeplechase but it's kosher. Won his first chase, and just short of £5k, in October 2016. Since then, he's run in 16 graded races plus one non-graded chase last month for 13...
  14. archie

    Galway Festival 2019

    Weights released for the Plate http://status.hri-ras.ie/entries/Mic...OR205.PDF?id=1 and the Hurdle http://status.hri-ras.ie/entries/Mic...OR206.PDF?id=1
  15. archie

    Cheltenham Gold Cup 2020

    Best prices: 6/1 Kemboy 8/1 Al Boum Photo 12/1 Santini 12/1 Topofthegame 14/1 Delta Work 16/1 Lostintranslation 16/1 Presenting Percy Purely a personal view. You cannot back any horse at less than 10/1. Kemboy is (deservedly) the highest rated staying chaser in these islands. Al Boum Photo...
  16. archie

    Punchestown 2019

    Punchestown Gold Cup prices: 13/8 Kemboy 7/4 Al Boum Photo 5/1 Bellshill 14/1 Bar
  17. archie

    Topham Trophy 2019

    Cadmium is getting an entry in the Topham after finishing second in a G2 yesterday. In 14 months he has run 13 times over fences - 5 x win, 2 x second, 2 x third, 3 x fourth, 1 x fifth. A joy to be involved with him.
  18. archie

    Cheltenham 2019 Festival Going & Weather

    Think this is worth its own thread. Hopefully these links will be updated with the latest reports but any word from Simon Claisse would be interesting. I think he might be watering sooner rather than later but, given that last year's incidents occurred on soft ground, I wouldn't expect him to...
  19. archie

    Free Bets

    Not sure where to put this but most seem to use 'free' bets for Cheltenham so... When is a 'free bet' not a free bet? From my own very limited experience, there are 3 main categories: - based on turnover like the Sky Bet Club. Bet £25 in a week and get a £5 free bet. I'd argue that this is...
  20. archie

    Mares Novice Hurdle 2019

    Unashamedly a plug for my horse, Robin De Carlow, who won her maiden hurdle on Friday. https://www.irishracing.com/news?headline=Robin-De-Carlow-Two-From-Two-In-Her-Promising-Career&prid=192861&prt=L In itself a fairly humdrum affair but made more interesting by looking at the two previous...
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