With 36 Festival wins under his belt Nicky Henderson knows how to train one for Cheltenham, so which of his current yard can do the business at this year’s Festival? Mike Vince asked him Related posts: Cheltenham Trainer Interview: Paul Nicholls Mike Vince travelled to Ditcheat to talk with the…

Pattern racing across three UK tracks on Saturday provided some food for thought but the tastiest morsel came in a non-graded handicap courtesy of Kalahari King, who defied topweight in the BSq Handicap Chase in authoritative style and thereby thrust himself firmly into the Champion Chase mix. Related posts: Pattern Race Review: Let’s not Twist again Twist Magic was a scintillating winner of Saturday’s Keith..

Even the most eagle-eyed observer wouldn’t have spotted many clues for the big races at the Festival in some of the high-class action which took place over the weekend. The ante-post markets remained largely unaltered, with no earth-moving performance to truly shake things up. This can largely be attributed to the fact that the horses that were expected to do their job did it, and without much fuss