Sporting Life Horse Racing

Gordon Elliott, Patrick Mullins, Paul Nicholls, Jonjo O'Neill, Tony Martin, Warren Greatrex, Daryl Jacob and Fran Berry all feature on this week's Sporting Life Racing Podcast.

We look ahead to the big weekend action, talk to the main protagonists as the weights for the Randox Health Grand National are unveiled and get the latest from Fran as he continues to recover from a horror fall at Wolverhampton last month.

Noel, Gareth, Tom and Dom reflect on a weekend of late goals and dramatic comebacks and it's affect on the promotion race. The team pick their favourite Sky Bet Championship forward, debate what makes a good penalty and form the Tony Mowbray fan club.

Running Order
0 mins: Aston Villa 3-3 Sheffield United
9 mins: Middlesbrough 1-1 Leeds United
17 mins: Tony Pulis & Marcelo Bielsa bromance
21 mins: Billy Sharp and our favourite Championship strikers
39 mins: Blackburn Awards and our new Tony Mowbray fan club
47 mins: The secret to a good penalty
59 mins: Weekly heroes and villains

The Sporting Team are back with their best tips for the weekend, covering Irish racing, football, cricket and rugby's Six Nations.

0 mins - Racing
7 mins - football - Premier League & EFL
17 mins - Rugby Union's Six Nations
21 mins - Cricket

Chris Hammer is joined by darts journalist and commentator Tom Beresford to preview the Premier League Darts season with some best bets while we have interviews with Raymond van Barneveld, Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price.

0-11.30: Premier League Format: Good or bad?
11.30: Who will win it, and player analysis
28.40: Relegation
32.00: Week One Fixtures
33.32: Raymond van Barneveld interview
41.42: Gerwyn Price interview
51.10: Michael Smith interview
58.40: Week One trebles

Another action packed weekend ahead and the Sporting Life team has it all covered with our best bets covering racing, football and darts. Plus we are in the USA for NFL Super Bowl.

0 mins - Racing
8 mins - Football - Premier League & EFL
16 mins - Masters Darts
21 mins - NFL Super Bowl

David Ord is joined by Ben Linfoot, Matthew Brocklebank and Michael Shinners to look ahead to the Dublin Racing Festival. There’s a preview of the novice hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival and reaction to last weekend’s key action.

Noel Whelan, Gareth Jones and Tom Carduff get their teeth into Norwich 2-2 Sheffield United; look at which teams outside the top six could make the play-offs; and debate the movement that could still happen in the final week of the Transfer Market. There's also heated debate on the subject of Ashley Cole to Derby and in our new weekend heroes and villains section
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Schedule
0mins - Norwich 2-2 Sheffield United
9 mins - Leeds v Norwich
15 mins - Rotherham's survival hopes
20 mins - Who from outside the top 6 will make the play offs
30 mins - Transfer Market - what movement will happen this week
42 mins - Ashley Cole to Derby
53 mins - Weekend heroes and villains

The Sporting Life team return to share their best bets for the weekend of January 26-27 covering football, racing and golf

The Sporting Life racing team of Dave Ord, Ben Linfoot and Matt Brocklebank are joined by Sky Bet’s Michel Shinners to discuss Gold Cup favourite Presenting Percy’s Galmoy win, while reflecting on Altior and Cyrname before looking ahead to the weekend’s action – including the Sky Bet Chase.

Richard Mann and Ben Coley sit down to discuss Judd Trump’s landmark victory at the Dafabet Masters where he beat Ronnie O’Sullivan in a one-sided final on Sunday.

O’Sullivan’s bid for a sixth world title at Sheffield in the spring comes under the microscope, as does world number one Mark Selby who is still to recapture the sort of form that shot him to the top of the world rankings.

With a host of major tournaments still be come before Sheffield comes around, the likes of Kyren Wilson, Mark Allen and Ryan Day are also discussed while the Richard and Ben also ponder whether Chinese sensation Ding Junhui can build on a promising semi-finals finish in London and finally become champion of the world in a few months’ time.