Month: January 2025

This Saturday we are spoiled with top quality racing from Prestbury Park, we have no fewer than five Grade 2 events on a seven race card. We will look at the two Novice Hurdles in today’s article, the first being the 12.40 JCB Triumph Trail Juvenile Hurdle which is over 2m 1f.  Heading the entries is East India Dock trained by James Owen, this…

We have now reached the latter stages of the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open coming from Melbourne. We preview the Women’s Semi-Finals being played Thursday morning, the first due to start at 8.30am GMT with the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka up against the Spaniard Paula Badosa.  The 6ft 26yo Sabalenka will be hoping to regain her title having won the Australian…

This week’s Thursday night football action comes from the Europa League, the first of the British clubs to play is Tottenham who are away at Hoffenheim. Christian Ilzer’s team are having a tough season in the Bundesliga sitting in 15th at the halfway stage of the season but will be coming into this game on the back of a 3-1 victory away to Kiel. …

We have four games Wednesday evening in the Championship the first one we will look into comes from Elland Road where Leeds host Norwich, when the two teams met at Carrow Road earlier on in the season it ended 1-1. Fast forward three months and Leeds are sitting top of the league on 56 pts and Norwich in 11th with 36 pts.  Daniel Farke’s…

It was a five goal thriller at Goodison Park and David Moyes got his first win in the league for Everton, his side took an early lead with a strike from Dominic Calvert-Lewin and the lead was doubled in the 30th minute by Iliman Ndiaye. The Merseyside club looked to have the game in the keeping at half time after an injury time own…

The weekends Premiership action is nearly all complete so we will give you a run down of Saturdays games with there being some dropped points for a couple of clubs. The lunchtime match came from St James Park and it was Bournemouth the 3/1 outsiders with credit card gambling sites who took the lead after 6 mins when Justin Kluivert netted from an assist…

If you’re worried about entertainment for Monday evening do not worry as we have you covered with two games for you to look at. The first being from the Premiership where Chelsea host Wolves at Stamford Bridge. Enzo Maresca’s side have slipped in form with a winless run in the league stretching to five games, draws away at Everton (0-0) defeats at home to…

We have four games from the Premiership on Sunday with two being televised. The first one we will look at is Everton hosting Tottenham at Goodison Park. David Moyes first game on his return to Goodison Park didn’t go to plan losing 1-0 to Aston Villa.  The Merseyside club find themselves 16th in the league and only one point away from the relegation zone,…

It was a great day for Nicky Henderson at Ascot with both of his fancied horses winning. First of them to line up was Lulamba in the Juvenile Hurdle, the gelding was 4/1 favourite for the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham so expectations were high going into his British debut. Ridden by Nico de Boinville he was giving 10lb to his main market rival Mondo…

The last of the afternoon games is a London Derby with West Ham welcoming Crystal Palace to the London Stadium. Graham Potter took charge of the Hammers this week and made his first game a winning one Tuesday night against Fulham (3-2). The run of three defeats on the bounce came to a halt and the home side will be hoping they can build…