Racing Weekly

In the first of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2023 previews, host Rishi Persad is joined by Racing Weekly's very own Sam Turner, Irish racing expert Johnny Ward, Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Nick Scholfield and bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss day one of the Festival.

Racing Weekly was filmed live at the George IV pub in Chiswick as our panel give their expert tips and opinions ahead of the opening race card including the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, the Arkle Chase, the Ultima Handicap Chase, the Champion Hurdle, the Mares' Hurdle, the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle and the National Hunt Chase.

Thank you to everyone who made the journey and joined us on the night in the audience, it was great to see you all.

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Harry Derham started his career as a jockey enjoying three years in the saddle, riding 50 winners including a winner at the Cheltenham Festival aboard Salubrious. After identifying his love for racing was not in the saddle Harry retrained at Paul Nicholls’ stable and quickly became a vital part of his team as Assistant Trainer, a role he held for six years.

Now, going it alone with his own team, he trained his first winner on Boxing Day in 2022, his first ever entry no less, as Seelotmorebusiness won well at Huntingdon.

For this week's episode of Racing Weekly we sent Sam Turner to Harry's yard at Frenchman’s House Stables to talk about his string of talented horses and the pressures of running a National Hunt stable with a raft of famous sporting owners including former football manager Harry Redknapp, Ryder Cup winner Graeme McDowell and England cricketer Jamie Overton.

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Rishi Persad and Sam Turner welcome back the Cheltenham ante-post king Gavin Lynch as we dissect another action-packed weekend of racing with Shishkin's return to form thrusting him as favourite for the Ryanair Chase.

We also preview the Eider Chase with well backed ante post favourite Kitty’s Light leading the market and the Coral Trophy Handicap Chase with a look at Cap Du Nord.

Later in the show we preview the 2023 Ryanair Chase, the 2023 Champion Hurdle and the 2023 Mares' Hurdle.

We are delighted to announce Racing Weekly is going live for a very special Cheltenham Festival preview at 6:45pm on Monday 6th March at the George IV pub in Chiswick, London. Join us as our experts take a look at the contenders taking part at this year's festival at Prestbury Park. For just £10, your ticket includes a free drink upon entry and a half-time pie.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/racing-weekly-live-tickets-530570098447

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Rishi Persad and Sam Turner look back at a packed weekend of racing with the agenda beginning with Aucunrisque’s win in the Betfair Hurdle. We discuss Zanza’s unlikely win in the Denman Chase, Funambule Sivola bouncing back to in the Game Spirit Chase plus analyse Jonbon’s performance in the Kingmaker Novices’ Chase from Warwick.

Later in the show we preview the Betfair Ascot Chase and take a closer look at the Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in what’s shaping up to be one of the races of the meeting.

We’re also joined by trainer David Pipe who talks up Remastered who has been in good form this season with wins at Aintree and Kempton.

We are delighted to announce Racing Weekly is going live for a very special Cheltenham Festival preview at 6:45pm on Monday 6th March at the George IV pub in Chiswick, London. Join us as our experts take a look at the contenders taking part at this year's festival at Prestbury Park. For just £10, your ticket includes a free drink upon entry and a half-time pie.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/racing-weekly-live-tickets-530570098447

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Rishi Persad is back in the saddle alongside Sam Turner and Steve Mellish to discuss the fallout from the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown.

Later we preview the Betfair Hurdle card at Newbury and also have a look at the contenders for the Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

We are delighted to announce Racing Weekly is going live for a very special Cheltenham Festival preview at 6:45pm on Monday 6th March at the George IV pub in Chiswick, London. Join us as our experts take a look at the contenders taking part at this year's festival at Prestbury Park. For just £10, your ticket includes a free drink upon entry and a half-time pie.

Tickets will be on sale at 10am on Friday 10th February on Eventbrite.

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Sam Turner and Andy Holding join stand-in host Steve Ryder to look ahead to the Dublin Racing Festival before reviewing the action from Cheltenham Trials Day over the weekend.

Later in the show, the chaps focus on the Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival 2023 with a long-view of what the race might hold come March.

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In our Super Service, find exclusive insight from Andy Holding and Johnny Ward, as well as market movers, news, giveaways and even access to exclusive events – including a live showing of Racing Weekly in the week before Cheltenham. Watch this space!

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Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Irish racing expert Johnny Ward to preview the jumps schedule on both sides of the Irish Sea.

We begin by reflecting on the retirement of jockey Davy Russell who made the announcement following his win on Liberty Dance at Thurles on Sunday. That was his 1,579th and final win of his career spanning 23 years. Happy retirement, Davy!

In our Christmas racing preview we start at Kempton and the King George Chase with L’Homme Presse now battling Bravemansgame for favouritism. Later we hop to Leopardstown for four days of great racing and we end by mentioning the Welsh Grand National on the 27th December.

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Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Racing Weekly producer and oddschecker's very own Steve Ryder as the chaps brave the cold and some World Cup hangovers to be in the studio.

With the lack of recent racing we discussed the recent performances to note and their implications for the Cheltenham festival 2023. We then looked towards a couple of races upcoming this weekend in the hope that racing can go ahead at Ascot.

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Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Tanya Stevenson to discuss the weekend just gone as Honeysuckle lost her perfect record at Fairyhouse with Teahupoo winning the Hatton's Grace Hurdle ahead of Klassical Dream.

Edwardstone won the Tingle Creek on his much-anticipated reappearance with an emotional Alan King keen to acknowledge the ‘flak’ he received for withdrawing him at Cheltenham and Ascot.

Later in the show we preview the Cheltenham International with the December Gold Cup and International Hurdle up for grabs.

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Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are back with the latest episode of Racing Weekly as we preview the weekend racing ahead, headlined by the Tingle Creek.

Before that, paddock expert Ken Pitterson joins us in the studio to give us an insight into his work. We talk about how he got into, the most important stages of analysing a horse and we ask if he has an examples or high-profile horses who will come on their recent runs early on in the national hunt season.

The panel look back at last weekend's racing where Constitution Hill was mightily impressive in the Fighting Fifth. L'homme Presse was back in action in the Rehearsal Chase whilst there were some eye catching performances from Newbury where McFabulous, Le Milos and Zanza landed wins.

At the time of writing seven have been entered into the Tingle Creek. Ferny Hollow was a notable omission but Shishkin and Greaneteen look set to go to post. The guys also touch on the Becher Chase where Snow Leopardess is entered once more after winning the same race last year.

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