Tag: Cheltenham Festival
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Harry Skelton: The Big Christmas Debrief
Sunday, December 26 I was at Wetherby on Boxing Day where my first ride was a winner on Galia Des Liteaux in the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle. It was a really nice performance from her. It’s quite hard when you inherit a horse from somewhere else as you have to change their feed and they have to fit […]
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The Inside Track: Adrian Heskin
Adrian Heskin has been a regular in top races right through his career, most recently thanks to his role as retained rider for leading owner Max McNeill and his family. It is a position that brings him into contact with some of the biggest stables on both sides of the Irish Sea and, potentially, could […]
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From the jockey’s mouth: A morning with Harry Skelton
Wakey, wakey, rise and shine! We managed to get ourselves out of bed bright and early to spend the morning alongside Harry Skelton, with the Grosvenor Sport ambassador offering us an exclusive insight into a day in the life of a Champion Jockey. As well as getting his stable stars set, including talented four-year-old Doyouknowwhatimean, […]
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Cheltenham Festival 2021: Six of the best Gold Cup winners
The Cheltenham Festival is the main event on the horse racing calendar. Four days of top-class racing at Prestbury Park, hundreds of thousands of racegoers (usually) coming through the turnstiles, and the finest horses in the world going head-to-head in some of the sport’s biggest races. Of course, the highlight of the week comes on […]