Matt Chapman

WHEN he races there’s no doubt Gidleigh Park is all heart, but behind the scenes issues with the crucial organ have returned to frustrate connections. Harry Fry’s class act was due to run in the La…

TRAINERS are creatures of habit. Remember that. It was 11 years ago that Jeremy Scott’s Melodic Rendezvous proved the trump card in the Kingwell Hurdle before heading to Cheltenham to take on the b…

HARRY FRY is hopeful he has sown the seeds of fear into Nicky Henderson should Sir Gino be able to line-up for the Pendil Novices’ Chase at Kempton a week on Saturday. The racing world this morning…

IT’S official. Jonbon ran the best race of his life at Ascot on Saturday in the Grade 1 Clarence House, recording a mark of 171 for the first time. That’s what I can tell you thanks to help from th…

IT was once named the Saviour of the World, but only time will tell whether the equine Salvator Mundi will be that for punters at Cheltenham in March. For those wondering what I’m talking abo…

SO-called good things win and so called good things lose — but whatever the outcome history dictates it’s crazy being afraid of one horse. The concept had me scratching my head when earlier this we…

AIDAN O’BRIEN has revealed to me a superstar name is still a surprise ‘possible’ to run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Some are still trying to get star stayer Kyprios in…

COOLMORE ‘lad’ Michael Tabor told me the other day that he thought Ryan Moore’s performance on Wigmore Street in the Irish Cambridgeshire was the ‘ride of all rides’. But Moore might ne…

OH, Hunty. Words will mean little to you right now. But everyone is here for you. Anytime, at any day or night. That won’t ease the pain. But out here there is a family for you loving you, just lik…

A NEW type of ‘rising’ could face Aintree a week today – and one far more dangerous to horse racing than those who tried to wreck the Grand National this time last year. It appears the activist mov…