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This is where you will find all of Racing Ahead’s horse racing columns by Robert Cooper for race meetings, Cheltenham Festival, the Grand National, the Epsom Derby Meeting, Glorious Goodwood and Royal Ascot.

CLOTH CAP TO WIN THE NATIONAL

24 March 2022 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter gives his verdict on this year’s Grand National Is the Grand National still […]

I WAS MR PLUM, PIONEER OF RACE REPORTS

24 February 2022 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, remembers those far off days when his mellifluous voice first floated into betting […]

PONY RACE STARS OF THE FUTURE

27 January 2022 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, on a brilliant crop of young riders and his apparently self-driving VW Golf […]

PELTWELL’S SEVEN-UP IS A TONIC

23 December 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, finds pleny of Christmas cheer in the success of small yards and a […]

MARK’S THE BIG LEBOWSKI OF BETTING RING

25 November 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, meets a colourful owner who has gone from sleeping in his car to […]

BAAEED’S ON SAME ROAD AS SUPER EMMA

30 September 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter,marvels at the progression of Britain’s US Open tennis champion and finds parallels on […]

INNOVATOR TONY WAS PUNTER’S PAL

26 August 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, finds a mystery female knocking on his hotel door…and pays tribute to Tony […]

CHAMP JOE HOOKS ME IN ONE

29 July 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, encounters a famous face at Bath and suggests a trainer going places in […]

FREE LOVE IS TRULY EXCITING

1 July 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, on the vagaries of racehorse ownership and the dilemmas of the handicapper Beggars […]

JEEPERS, LEEPER COULD DO IT FOR FRANKEL

27 May 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, discusses Epsom and Ascot hopes along with Beatles’ bath mats and Madness If […]

PINT-SIZED MARCO WILL BE BIG STAR

22 April 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, highlights a young jockey who looks destined to be the next Italian hot-shot […]

MY LOST MIKE AND JENNY PITMAN’S PAIN

25 March 2021 0 comments

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, shares his spine-tingling and sphincter-gripping moments from the National For many that nostalgic […]