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I’d work it from how many the Irish will have.
Mullins spreads, say, 6-9
Elliot, Cromwell and DeBromhead 4-7
Other Irish 2-4Gives you 12-20 so English 8-16 – mid point is 12 which is probably fair I’d say, maybe touch high so I’d plump for 11.
Cromwell yard is still quiet though , Elliott will have a better year after last season’s disaster , I’m not sure Mullins is going to have as many winners as prev years , he has very few certs and Lossiemouth going to the Champion risks 1 win
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
As David Coleman used to say One Nil. Thought I say it just in case it’s the only Brit winner this week!
Thank the lord for henderson. He has to take so much **** but he knows how to win the big races.
Totally agree glad. I know one thing, racing will be a much, much poorer place without him.
Elliott form on Day One:
5th/11, 8/11, 20/22, 21/22, U/22, PU/22, 2/9, 14/23, PU/23, 11/17, PU/17.
Eleven horses, with only two (Brighterdaysahead second to Lossiemouth, and Search For Glory late unseat in Ultima when challenging at the last) making any sort of challenge.
Potentially a draw coming up in the all-important Prestbury Cup, if the Irish* don’t win the Martin Pipe.
Who’d have thunk it? 😳
* let’s hope I don’t get accused of racist language for using “Irish”.
It ended 15-13 for the Irish, but Willie won the CH, CC and GC becoming only the 2nd trainer in history to achieve the feat after HDB did it back in 2021.
The final score very misleading.The brits won the handicaps, the irish won the big ones. 10-2 in grade ones. At the top level the irish still streets ahead. Hard to see any change soon at the top level with so many irish trained horses in the top races. The ground probably contributed to the brits winning so many handicaps imho. Much softer going would have seen the irish trained horses win a few more handicaps.
Btw rich ricci the first owner to do the ch and gold cup double since dorothy paget in 1940. Wow.
Dorothy Paget was a remarkable character. I very much recommend the book Dorothy Paget: The Eccentric Queen of the Sport of Kings by Graham Sharpe and Declan Colley. A fine account of her life as an owner, breeder and fearless punter.
I’ve been meaning to buy that book for years being rather obsessed with the Golden Miller years. Just worried it will end up on my shelf of unread racing books that I couldn’t resist buying.
I love the photo of Golden Miller with my other hero, Mick the Miller ( is that in the book?).I’d love to have been around when horse racing and the dogs was part of everyone’s lives. It was like that when I was a child but was coming to an end when I got back to racing in my thirties. Even twenty years ago dog racing wasn’t frowned upon the way it is now; the WI used to arrange trips to Nottingham. Being nocturnal myself I can relate to Dorothy Paget but sadly without the riches.
No, unfortunately that photograph is not in the book.
Miss Paget took nocturnal living to extremes. Her bookmaker famously allowed her to bet on races that had already taken place, safe in the knowledge that she would have been asleep and couldn’t know the results.
As for greyhound racing today, I can’t help noticing that the Green Party voted to ban it at one of their recent conferences. I very much doubt they are well disposed towards horse racing either.
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