TimeformBlog

The Irish Hennessy meeting at Leopardstown is the last stepping stone before the Cheltenham Festival for many leading ante-post fancies from across the Irish Sea and the four Grade 1 events on the card all promise to be high-class renewals. The defection of Pandorama means that the result of the Hennessy itself is unlikely to have much of an impact on the current Gold Cup market, but the absence of Noel Meade's stable star has made this contest much more interesting from a betting point of view. Unexposed British raider Pride of Dulcote is the one that has the potential to shake up the Gold Cup betting the most, with many people seeing Paul Nicholls' progressive second-season chaser as a dark horse for the Blue Riband event in March. However, the form of his narrow win over Punchestowns...

[b]Timeform look at the week ahead's racing...[/b] [b]Sunday November 21[/b] There are four National Hunt meetings in Britain and Ireland on Sunday, undoubtedly the best of which comes at Aintree. The classy Notre Pere heads the weights in this year's renewal of the [b]Becher Chase[/b] and that is the highlight of an interesting card which also features Jim Goldie's progressive chaser Stormin Exit in the [b]Grand Sefton[/b] earlier in the afternoon. [b]Monday November 22[/b] Kempton, Ludlow and Ffos Las all stage National Hunt cards on Monday and it's a rare day without all-weather racing. [b]Tuesday November 23[/b] Tuesday sees All-Weather racing from Southwell and Lingfield and they go over the sticks at Sedgefield. [b]Wednesday November 24[/b] Chepstow...