The jumps season is well and truly flying now and we’ve got plenty of information to see you through the opening skirmishes.
Paul Ferguson has had a close look at the main action for this issue, while Robert Cooper reveals some of the horses he’ll be keeping a close eye on this winter.
But the meat in the sandwich is very much our stable tours this month. We have chats with some of the jumping game’s biggest names as they run us through the main targets for their top horses. There are plenty of useful insights so get your notebook out.
And we kick off the campaign with some good news in that the Cheltenham Festival is being kept to four days. Hoteliers who were already massively hiking their prices for the Friday and Saturday in 2023 may not agree, but it’s the best news for the sport.
To stretch another day out of the Festival would just be greedy and dilute what is still an incredible meeting – and yes we are already talking about the Chel-
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