The Boylesports.com Gold Cup is a Class 1 Handicap Chase run over a trip of 2 miles and 5 furlongs. The race takes place at Cheltenham Racecourse in December and there is £150,000 in added prize money on offer. The 2009 renewal takes place on Saturday 12th December. Boylesports.com Gold Cup Trends Six and seven year olds [...]
DAVID PIPE is in no rush to make any definite running plans for Saturday's Boylesports.com Gold Cup at Cheltenham after leaving three horses in at the confirmation stage.
PUNCHESTOWN REPORT:KAUTO STAR and Denman may be the only Gold Cup show in town for most people but both Paul Nolan and Alain Cawley reckon Joncol could yet emerge from the wings to claim centre-stage next March after the giant chaser landed his first Grade One prize in yesterday's John Durkan Memorial at Punchestown.
... the outcome of the race we can't wait to see. Denman, I say, is going to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The bad news for Denman fans is that I've been wrong about him before. When he won the Gold Cup, I was on Kauto Star. I didn't think he could possibly win either of his Hennessys - in 2007, the going was not just heavy but holding, the most energy-sapping kind of all, so there was...
• Colin Tizzard has worked out key to veteran chaser • Paddy Power winner Tranquil Sea is obvious danger Fast approaching his 11th birthday, Mount Oscar is no spring chicken, but he has never been in better form than since joining Colin Tizzard and he looks a good bet at 16-1 (with William Hill and Victor Chandler) to be the oldest winner of next Saturday's Boylesports Gold Cup at...
... a while. Indeed, she was even sounding cautiously optimistic about his prospects for the Hennessy Gold Cup until that plan also bit the dust when conditions were considered too testing. Like Racing Demon, Tidal Bay also gets into today's contest with only 11st to carry, but while Racing Demon's weight allowance is a result of his recent absence, Tidal Bay's comes as a result of his inability...
The Welsh handler has Saturday's Boylesports Gold Cup in his sights as he continues his fast rise to the top of the training ranks The bad news for Tim Vaughan's rivals is that he has only just begun. It is less than a year and a half since he gave up his day job and devoted himself full-time to training racehorses, yet, so far this season, there are just six yards in the country that have...