by Jack Milner at BetVictor WE ALL know what the real highlight of Christmas is ‒ and it isn’t listening to your nan bring back her sprouts via the rumblings of the methane-soaked sofa! No, one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar is the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park, a race …[Read More]
Punting pointers at the Cheltenham Open Meeting
by JACK MILNER, at BetVictor. PROPER racing is back. No offence to the flat, but the difference is quintessentially men against boys, and the jumps season really kicks off with Cheltenham’s Open Meeting. There’ll be many pointers to the Cheltenham and Aintree spring festivals with a host of superstars in action to set tongues wagging. …[Read More]
Memory Lane: The Paddy Power Gold Cup
IT WAS November 1977. I was only a kid but I vividly remember Peter O’Sullevan’s dulcet tones calling home Bachelor’s Hall in the Mackeson Gold Cup. What I didn’t realise at the time was that this was the start of my love affair with this great race. Now called the Paddy Power Gold Cup, for …[Read More]