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This is where you will find all of Racing Ahead’s horse racing news, tips, exclusive interviews, analysis and columns for Cheltenham Festival, the Grand National, the Epsom Derby Meeting, Glorious Goodwood and Royal Ascot.

JOHNSTON’S GOT THIS ONE WRONG

28 June 2018 0 comments

Keith Knight argues that handicap racing is the lifeblood for smaller trainers HORSERACINGMATTERS.COM Image the consequences if, somehow, the BHB […]

THE RACING NOTEBOOK

28 June 2018 0 comments

The team at PicksfromthePaddock.co.uk take a look back at last month’s action and pick out horses to follow in our […]

REVISITING SOME OLD FRIENDS

28 June 2018 0 comments

John Anthony discovers that there are profits to be made from some simple methods SYSTEMS SPOT RACING AHEAD has always […]

LION CAN ROAR IN THE ECLIPSE

28 June 2018 0 comments

Naps king Paul Jacobs picks his horses for the big races coming up in July PAUL JACOBS There is so […]

OAKS LOOKS BEST CLASSIC

28 June 2018 0 comments

Mike Francis presents a list of fascinating figures which show Forever Together produced the joint best time for June SPEED […]

O’BRIEN’S WARRIOR SPIRIT

24 May 2018 0 comments

2,000 Guineas hero is aimed at first Triple Crown since Nijinsky in 1970 PHOTO SPECIAL AIDAN O’BRIEN has confirmed that […]

Hunt for next year’s Classic winners

24 May 2018 0 comments

Ian Heitman with his latest report on racing’s younger generation TALKING TWO-YEAR-OLDS The Flat season has really got going over […]

DADDY OF ALL SYSTEMS

24 May 2018 0 comments

Eddie names three sires and says follow their progency for winners EDDIEWOOD There is always a reason for investing in […]

OCEAN SET TO CAUSE WAVES

24 May 2018 0 comments

Paul Ferguson selects his leading contenders for June’s leading contests PAUL FERGUSON BIG RACES PREVIEW Lah Ti Dar Last year’s […]

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

24 May 2018 0 comments

Ben Morgan wishes he’d had the bottle to stick with Billesdon Brook – so do we! DIARY OF AN AMATEUR […]

ENDING IN THE SUNSHINE

24 May 2018 0 comments

Scrapper signs off for the season wondering where all the horses are POINT TO POINT LARKHILL APRIL 21ST Every race […]

RASCAL CAN BE IN DERBY MIX

24 May 2018 0 comments

Richie Rich picks out the horses that have impressed him over the past few weeks REFLECTIONS IN RUNNING YOUNG RASCAL […]

MAHLERMADE FOR SUCCESS

24 May 2018 0 comments

Jeremy Grayson starts this month’s selection with a rare Alan King summer jumper OUT IN THE STICKS WARWICK, MAY 7 […]

AURUM HAS ASCOT AURA

24 May 2018 0 comments

Andrew Ayres was impressed by Charlie Appleby’s Newmarket maiden winner PADDOCK PICKS NEWMARKET APRIL 17 (GOOD-SOFT) 7f three-year-old maiden (Class […]

HENRY IS SO MUCH MISSED

24 May 2018 0 comments

Dave Youngman joins the rest of Newmarket in remembrance on the fifth anniversary of the great trainer’s death NEWMARKET REPORT […]

GO KNIGHT TO BEHOLD EACH WAY AT 16/1

24 May 2018 0 comments

Charlie McCann says Saxon Warrior is looking skinny for the Derby and suggests some better value bets CHARLIE MCCANN The […]

PACEMAKERS SHOULD CARRY A WARNING!

24 May 2018 0 comments

Paul Jacobs thinks trainers need to come clean over the front-running roles of some horses PAUL JACOBS It has been […]

STAMP OUT TROUBLE

24 May 2018 0 comments

Rory Paddock says violence at racecourses add further black marks to our beloved sport. OPINION Yobs, thugs, louts, hooligans. Words […]

’BAD’ TRAINERS WORK AS HARD AS GOOD ONES

24 May 2018 0 comments

Keith Knight says that Matt Chapman is not always right HORSERACINGMATTERS.COM Matt Chapman Recently Matt Chapman, on the always excellent […]

O’BRIEN DREAMS ABOUT A NEW NIJINSKY

24 May 2018 0 comments

Jonathan Powell says Ballydoyle are hoping Saxon Warrior can go one better than Camelot JONATHAN POWELL With the extraordinary total […]

GALILEO MADE ME BLINK WITH DISBELIEF

24 May 2018 0 comments

Graham Buddry remembers his first awe-inspiring encounter with the Derby hero and future wonder sire YESTERDAY’S HEROES Due to other […]

HAZAPOUR CAN OUTBATTLE WARRIOR

24 May 2018 0 comments

Tony Keenan has an interesting choice from Ireland for the Epsom Derby IRISH RACING The Irish Flat season has had […]

HAVE A CHEEKY BET ON RASCAL

24 May 2018 0 comments

John Anthony was impressed by William Haggas’ colt at Chester and thinks the Derby is in his grasp EPSOM DERBY […]

DON’T SNUB THE PUNTERS, JOHN

24 May 2018 0 comments

Matt Mitter decries John Gosden’s parade ring absence VALUE RATER Last month I used this column to have a good […]

SUCCESS AS ‘THE KNOCKER’ GETS KNOCKED

24 May 2018 0 comments

Simon Nott spends time on the rails at Exeter TALES FROM THE BETTING RING EXETER 8TH MAY Exeter is a […]

ROYAL ASCOT STAT PACK

24 May 2018 0 comments

ROYAL ASCOT TRENDS GUIDE Malcolm Boyle leafs through the record books to bring us the key pointers for the big […]

THE O’BRIEN LESSER LIGHTS CAN SPARKLE

24 May 2018 0 comments

Andy Newton says the Irish maestro has saddled a 50-1 winner in the Oaks before EPSOM OAKS & DERBY BETTING […]

WELCOME

24 May 2018 0 comments

Epsom weekend and Ascot’s royal meeting. It can’t get much better than that for Flat lovers. The cream of European […]

THE COATS ARE OFF AT LAST

26 April 2018 0 comments

Scrapper is pleased to see a bit of warm weather as he goes pointing POINT TO POINT MILBORNE ST ANDREW […]

THE TOWN HAS COME ALIVE

26 April 2018 0 comments

Dave Youngman watches Newmarket blossom into the new season NEWMARKET REPORT Newmarket has really come alive now and we are […]

Racing Ahead

JOHNSTON’S GOT THIS ONE WRONG

THE RACING NOTEBOOK

REVISITING SOME OLD FRIENDS

LION CAN ROAR IN THE ECLIPSE

OAKS LOOKS BEST CLASSIC

O’BRIEN’S WARRIOR SPIRIT

Hunt for next year’s Classic winners

DADDY OF ALL SYSTEMS

OCEAN SET TO CAUSE WAVES

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

ENDING IN THE SUNSHINE

RASCAL CAN BE IN DERBY MIX

MAHLERMADE FOR SUCCESS

AURUM HAS ASCOT AURA

HENRY IS SO MUCH MISSED

GO KNIGHT TO BEHOLD EACH WAY AT 16/1

PACEMAKERS SHOULD CARRY A WARNING!

STAMP OUT TROUBLE

’BAD’ TRAINERS WORK AS HARD AS GOOD ONES

O’BRIEN DREAMS ABOUT A NEW NIJINSKY

GALILEO MADE ME BLINK WITH DISBELIEF

HAZAPOUR CAN OUTBATTLE WARRIOR

HAVE A CHEEKY BET ON RASCAL

DON’T SNUB THE PUNTERS, JOHN

SUCCESS AS ‘THE KNOCKER’ GETS KNOCKED

ROYAL ASCOT STAT PACK

THE O’BRIEN LESSER LIGHTS CAN SPARKLE

WELCOME

THE COATS ARE OFF AT LAST

THE TOWN HAS COME ALIVE

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