Talking Horses Podcast in association with Roudee Racing: Recent Episodes
Ben Collier & Phil Brunetti
The Talking Horses Podcast is a weekly podcast "by the fans, for the fans" in association with leading racehorse ownership syndicate, Roudee Racing!Each week Bruno, Ben and special guests will provide updates on all the Roudee Racing horses as well as previews and reviews of each of the horse's races.They also review and preview the biggest meetings in the racing calendar, explore ante-post angles, tackle your questions and attempt to shed light on one of the bigger topics within our sport in regular segment, "Deep Ground". Phil Brunetti and Ben Collier have been National Hunt Racing fans for more than 10 years. Recent converts to the flat as well, they own shares in horses trained at Manor House Stables in Cheshire through the fantastic Roudee Racing syndicate. You can find out more at https://roudeeracing.com/.Watch on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-OA3UhDGg3mcgi4g76yJUw
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We're back for part 2 of our Aintree Grand National meeting preview, diving in to each of the 7 races on the Saturday card including 3/1 and 12/2 naps!
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Can it have been 4 weeks since Cheltenham! Time has flown but the extra week vs the usual 3 between Festivals has certainly letf us feeling fresh and ready to go. Perhaps horses that ran at Cheltenham will feel the same.
Here we get stuck in to every race across the first two days of the meeting with a dual nap for the Friday at 9/1!
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Hello Folks - Ben & Bruno are back with you after a lovely little Cheltenham hiatus. What a wonderful and, crucially, profitable week it was and hopefully you followed us in antepost on the likes of Jango Baie and Air of Entitlement.
Now that the Festival dust has settled on Gloucestershire, it's time to look a bit further north as we prepare for Aintree's Grand National meeting. Next week we will have not one but TWO episodes for you covering all the 21 races post decs across the 3 days but, in the meantime, we have done a deep dive into the greatest jumps race of them all here for your listening pleasure. A slightly different format this week where we go horse by horse down through the top 10 or so in the market and rate their chances before looking for anything worthy of consideration at bigger prices.
A lot of fun and we hope to have helped you with your shortlisting!
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Ben & Bruno
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Well can you adam and eve it, the 2026 Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us! As excitement reaches it's peak, we dig into each of the 5 championship races as well as share a best bet each for each of the four days.
Thank you for listening along with us this season and specifically with these antepost angle episodes. We've had a great time recording them and really hope you've enjoyed them and found some interesting angles for certain races and also some helpful punting perspectives for the biggest Festival of them all.
Good luck next week whatever you back and enjoy the visual feast that lies ahead.
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After a good few of our handicap chase selections have shortened significantly over the last few days, we're back with a deep dive into each of the 5 handicap hurdles. We look at the ideal profiles for each race and create some nice tight shortlists for with suggestions of whether there's antepost value or if it's a case of bet on the day. Patience and self-control will pay off atthe Festival, so don't feel compelled to lunge in unless you're convinced there's value in the current price. One or two from your shortlist can look a lot more attractive on the day once you know the final field, jockey, ground, etc.
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Ben & Bruno
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This Tuesday marked the official entry stage for the 2026 Cheltenham Festival Handicaps and so this week we have dedicated all our efforts to trawling through all 7 handicap chases (and 268 associated entries!) to create shortlists for each race, including some useful trends that can help bring a shortlist into sharper focus. We also discuss which horses to back now and which may offer similar value on the day.
This was a lot of fun! We hope you enjoy and agree with some of the selections!
Ben & Bruno
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We're back after a week's post-DRF recuperation and looking ahead to a good Saturday card at Ascot, where frankly the Grade 1 Ascot Chase and Jonbon's latest bid to finish either 1st or 2nd is the least of our punting worries. We find a pair of tasty naps in the handicaps and highlight a well bred bumper runner that's very familiar to those of us that can think back to 2018...
Enjoy the show and let's find some winners!
Ben & Bruno
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All 15 DRF races covered for your listening and punting pleasure. Let's just hope they pass the inspection on Saturday morning!
We have some strong fancies, particulalry in the Spring Juvenile, the 2m handicap chase and the Irish Gold Cup itself for the Saturday. Then on Sunday we're confident we've found the winner of the mares handicap hurdle, just as we did on our first visit to the DRF back in 2019, along with the Leopardstown Handicap Chase, the mares bumper and the Irish Champion hurdle!
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Ben & Bruno
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Well there's little doubt this is one of the best Cheltenham Trials Days in recent memory and SURELY we will have at least one Festival winner on show tomorrow, if not more. We get stuck in to 8 races, including one which is one of the best pointers to Festival success of any race, anywhere in recent history!
What a day to look forward to.
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Ben & Bruno
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Hello again Antepost fiends!
We're back for our second of this season's Antepost Angle series and this time we're completing the novice hurdle set with the Mares Novices Hurdle and the Triumph Hurdle, along with the Champion Bumper too (which surprisingly yielded a strong antepost fancy).
The mares race has not been one for favourites (nor are we convinced this year will be different), so is there value now or is it better to wait for value on the day, or both? We discuss. The Triumph is fascinating with new additions to the scene post-Christmas and one or two very highly touted horses yet to show themselves but possibly running over the next two weeks. We create a shortlist of those and give more than a nod to the importance of the Grade 1 at the Dublin Racing Festival. Which we also do in the context of the Champion Bumper, a race that has often been won in recent seasons by a DRF bumper winner.
As ever, the plan with this series is to help create a shortlist of horses for the big races in March. We believe it's not always about taking the value now but about taking a position on a horse or group of horses early enough so we can be nimble as the markets develop in the coming weeks. Horses may shorten after the DRF but they can shorten more in the days following so early movers can be rewarded!
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Ben & Bruno
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It's the end of the working week and spirits are in the sky, as are hopes of a cracking mid-January weekend of jumps racing from Ascot and Windsor. This week we're focusing on Ascot's Clarence House Chase meeting card, including some excellent racing away from the flagship Grade 1.
We pick out a couple of strong fancies in the handicaps and Mr AI himself is back from his winter cyber break with his selections, including a bold nap!
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Ben & Bruno
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Hello there racing fans.
We're excited to bring back our heralded and successful Cheltenham Festival Antepost Angle series with the first episode of this season looking ahead to the Supreme, Turners and Albert Bartlett Novices hurdles.
We start with the 2 miler and work our way up, as we think that trainers do when they have a good novice!
There's no getting away from it, it's a far murkier picture than it can often be in these markets at this stage of the season and even last week's Ballymore Novices Hurde at Naas left us with more questions than answers. So is it right to be playing now or are we likely to have good fields and big prices available on the day?
We discuss and help you find a shortlist to keep a close eye on over the coming weeks, particularly during the Dublin Racing Festival which should be perhaps more informative than ever.
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Ben & Bruno
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Happy New Year THP-ers!
Wer'e back after the break and ready to get stuck in to Warwick's Classic Chase card this Saturday which, with a bit of luck, looks as though it will GO AHEAD after a week of weather watch.
What it lacks a bit in quality it certainly makes up for in the punting value to be had and we help you find a few for your shortlist, including a 26/1 double!
We hope you enjoy the show and the racing this weekend. Kempton looks good too.
Ben & Bruno
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Yes, we understand that 86 minutes is probably too long for a podcast. However, this episode doesn't just skim the surface. We get deep into the detail of each of the Grade 1s across both Boxing/St Stephen's Day and the 27th December with the Welsh Grand National thrown in for good measure. 8 races. Expert analysis. Seeing the wood for the trees, the objective.
We had fun doing this one and hope you enjoy listening.
Thanks for doing so and Merry Christmas!
Ben & Bruno
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After a couple of weeks off we're refreshed and excited to be back to get stuck into a great card at Ascot for their Christmas meeting, including the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle and some cracking handicaps.
Let's see if we can boost the Christmas coffers, as the old cliche goes!
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It's Coral Gold Cup weekend and we're back to scour the Newbury Saturday card, including a look at what is arguably the race of the season so far, The Fighting Fifth at Newcastle with Constitution Hill vs The New Lion!
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What a Saturday of racing we have in store this week and, given we're actually going to Ascot on Saturday, we reserve this podcast's focus for the 7 races from the Berkshire track, including a cracking renewal of the 1965 Chase and Ascot Hurdle.
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After picking a couple of winners on Day 1, we're back to preview the second and third days of the meeting, including the Paddy Power Gold Cup and the Greatwood Hurdle.
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We're back and this week it's the Cheltenham November meeting, arguably the meeting that really marks the injection of the cream of the horse crop into the National Hunt season. In this episode, Bruno, Andy and I preview an exciting Friday card with spoiler alert the fabled Ben & Bruno DOUBLE NAP, while Andy loses his mind putting up one in the Shloer. We worry about him sometimes.
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Hello there pod fans and welcome to BADGER BEERS weekend at Wincanton, the site of one of our favourite race day experiences ever and a weekend we have a serious soft spot for. Maybe 'cos you're properly into November and it really feels like National Hunt season. Either way it's a great meeting and we have both that and Aintree's Grand Sefton meeting to look forward to this weekend!
Bruno, myself and Mr AI himself Andy Inkling get stuck into 9 races across both cards and find, once I recover from Bruno kindly bringing up the Blue Jays' defeat in Game 7 of the World Series.
Enjoy the pod and the racing this weekend and let's find some winners!
Ben, Bruno & Andy
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After a monumental performance at HQ last weekend (if I do say so myself), we're back to look ahead to a cracking Saturday of action at Ascot and Wetherby this weekend, including the reapperance of some of the premier names in the sport that it's great to see out so early!
Mr AI himself Andrew Inkling joins us again as he bids to maintain his 100% strike rate on the show, having provided 3 winners from his 3 naps since he came into our lives. Between us, we look at 5 races from Ascot and the big 3 from Wetherby and, I don't mind saying, have a bloody good time in the process.
Enjoy the show & best of luck with your punting!
Ben & Bruno
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It's that time of year again, at last! It's the return of jumps racing at National Hunt HQ. Happy days.
And what a two days we have in store. Big fields, old favourites and horses we've heard about all summer that we're finally going to get to see in the flesh. And all on ground that should hopefully be perfect and mean very few non runners. What more could anyone want?
We rattle through all 14 races, giving you a nap for each day, and we also welcome to the show for the first time a special guest in-form tipster who'll be be joining us each week going forwards to share their insight and tips...
Enjoy the racing!
Ben & Bruno
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Well let's be fair it's a slightly fallow weekend of National Hunt racing after the buzz of Chepstow last weekend (and what a punting start we had!) and before the first Cheltenham meeting of the season next weekend. So we've decided to have a bit of fun this week because it is, of course, The Munster Nash!
We look ahead to Sunday's card at Kempton before picking out our fancies for the big race at Limerick, also on Sunday, in the style of Bobby Pickett himself. We're only 2 weeks from Halloween after all!
Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy.
Ben & Bruno
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We're back! Refreshed and rejuvenated after a cracking summer, we're ready to get stuck right back into a new season of National Hunt racing with you.
In this first episode of season FIVE (jeeze, how did we get here?), we pick out 3 horses each to follow for the season ahead. Could a forgotten Grade 1 winning second season novice chaser find his way back to the top? Could we have another northern-trained horse that will rise through the handicapping ranks to eat at the top table? Speculation. Rationality. Emotion. It's all here.
We then move on to look at the Friday and Saturday of this weekend's Persian War meeting at Chepstow. This is always a fun meeting but this year it feels like we have some particularly good fields, not to mention the extra day with the Welsh Champion Hurdle moving from Ffos Las to a Sunday card here for the first time.
It's great to be back with you. Enjoy and let's go find some winners!
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Hopefully some of you got on Irancy at a massive price on Tuesday! What a start to the week that was. We hit the post a couple of times after that but have some good fancies for the final three days of the Punchestown Festival to hopefully finish the National Hunt season on a high.
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This week we are incredibly excited to say that we hit the 100 EPISODES milestone!
We started this for a bit of fun in January '22 with no designs on where it would take us but we wanted to answer some of the many questions we had about the sport we love. And we think we did that in our "Deep Ground" sections of each episode which now, we like to think, cumulatively serve as a nice little reference library that you can dive back in to at any point should you want to know more about the different component parts of our sport.
Latterly we've pivoted to focusing the show on what we love, form study and race analysis with a view to some weekend punting and we continue to have a brilliant time putting these episodes together. Long may it continue!
In this epsiode, we get nostalgic for a bit then turn our attentions to the first 2 days of the Punchestown Festival on Tuesday and Wednesday. Keep your eyes peeled too as we'll be back later this week to cover the remining 3 days.
Thank you to all who have listened over the last 1,196 days! Here's to 100 more...
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And just like that, the end of the jumps season is upon us. We're sad here at The Talking Horses Podcast BUT we're also very excited about a pheonmenal card at Sandown this Saturday to finish it all off with Willie and Dan fighting it out for the trainer's title. The odds are stacked against him with Willie's Irish armada making the journey but we think it's possible for Mr Skelton to pull it out of the fire.
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We're back for one of the big weekends in the Irish National Hunt racing calendar, it's the Irish Grand National meeting at Fairyhouse!
Sadly, the Saturday has been lost to the weather. However, we're hopeful Sunday and Monday will go ahead and so we get stuck in to trying to find some winners across those two days including 11/1 and 4/1 naps and a strong joint fancy in the big race itself on Monday.
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We're back to preview Grand National Day itself with an in-depth look at all 7 races on the card and a JOINT NAP at double figure odds + a 69/1 ew double to get stuck into.
Enjoy and good luck in the big one!
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We're back for day 2 of the Grand National meeting and we've a horse in a Grade 1 to get well stuck in to along with some choice fancies in the handicaps where the value on day 2 most definitely lies.
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The quick turnaround from Cheltenham to Aintree this year may not be the best news for those horses that ran at HQ but it's great news for us punters as we didn't have to wait long!
We'll be with you with a separate episode for each day of the meeting this week, kicking off with Day 1 including a confident bet in the Foxhunters' of all races!
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As the dust settles on another memorable March week at HQ, our minds start to turn towards the rest of the spring festivals and, of course, nothing stands out more on the horizon than the Grand National itself. So this week, Bruno and I do the decent thing and get well and truly stuck into the greatest jumps race of them all in an effort to find some antepost value as well as a shortlist to take very seriously post declarations and once we know the ground.
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Well it's seems almost impossible to believe that the best week of the year is nearly upon us and Bruno and I could...not...be any more excited. The four best days in racing, jumps or flat, beckon and in what is our final episode before the big week we look ahead to each of the 12 handicaps and provide our angles and fancies. It's been a huge amount of fun researching for and putting together this episode and the handicaps in particular are such a game of opinions. Hopefully your homework coincides with some of ours in some races and you can put your foot through few nice bets next week!
Enjoy the show and enjoy next week. We are so lucky!
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As we count down the days to Cheltenham, this week we look ahead to the Stayers Hurdle in our Antepost Angle and ask, can Teahupoo be beaten? The answer...well you've have to listen to find out...
We then get stuck into four of the ITV races at Kelso's big meeting of the year on Saturday with naps at 15/2 and 10/1.
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Well I guess we're into the last major weekend of jumps racing before we hit the calm before the Cheltenham Festival storm. Can you believe it's less than three weeks away now! This week we preview the Mares Chase at the Festival in our latest Antepost Angle as well as looking ahead to Kempton's Adonis meeting card this Saturday.
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We're motoring through the new year and this week marked less than 4 weeks to go now until the Cheltenham Festival! With the Festival in mind, this week we focus on two more of the Festival novice hurdles in our Antepost Angle before we then look ahead to this Saturday's card at Ascot, including perhaps a classic Skelton plot job...
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It's the calm after the DRF storm this week so we take the opportunity to look at the Ryanair Chase antepost market now there's some shape to it before looking ahead to some nice racing at Newbury on Saturday including a BULLISH THP Nap double...
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That's right girls and boys, this weekend is DRF weekend! Probably only 2nd to the Cheltenham Festival in terms of the highest quality National Hunt racing, we've 15 races packed full of interest from Leopardstown and, we think, some great value selections!
Bruno and I run you through all 15 races over the 2 days with plenty of angles and selections to hopefully have you smiling come Sunday evening.
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We're back again for you this week with an antepost look at the Champion Chase (is there a case to take on Jonbon?) and then a full preview of Saturday's mouthwatering Trials Day card at HQ.
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The cold snap has gone and we have jumps racing back on the agenda!
That means this week we're back with a full length episode including our latest Antepost Angle, looking ahead to the Arkle and the Brown Advisory Novices Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, and a full run-through of all 7 races at Ascot on Saturday.
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As the cold snap sees off Warwick and threatens Kempton this weekend, we've decided not to waste our time going through meetings that may not be on and, instead, focus purely on our first Antepost Angle segment of this season, specifically the markets for the Supreme, the Turners and the Albert Bartlett.
On the face of it these markets had a murky look about them, with the exception of one standout horse, but on closer inspection they take shape quite nicely and we pick out a knocking ew bet at 10/1 and a few at big prices for your shortlist to go with a Festival banker at a decent price!
Hopefully the weather plays ball and next week we can have a look ahead to a tasty weekend of action at Ascot and Windsor alongside the next in our Cheltenham Antepost Angle series.
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Well Christmas is nearly here but, before that, we've the small matter of the Long Walk Hurdle meeting at Ascot on Saturday which presents a beautiful pre-Christmas cracker of a card and a selection of 3 horses in particular that we're keen to get stuck in to.
Enjoy Acot and the bumper Christmas racing period. We'll be back with you in the New Year!
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We're back at HQ and it's a belter of a Saturday card. After a hatful of winners at Sandown last Saturday Bruno is back in his chair this week to help us continue on that winning thread this Saturday. We also give a nod to fancies on a great Friday card too.
Fire your bullets wisely and enjoy two great days of racing!
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This week Ben ploughs a lonely furrow with Bruno off in NYC with work but it's all hands to the pump as ever to find you weekend winners, this week from the Esher venue as it's Tingle Creek day!
Enjoy the fantastic card at Sandown and the racing elsewhere and remember, don't chase bets. Focus in on what you have time to study, form your own opinion and then back it according to your confidence. It is after all a game of opinions!
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The big jumps weekends are coming thick and fast and this weekend marks Newbury's big meeting of the year. We scour all 7 races on Newbury's Saturday card and bring you some detailed, balanced, unemotional analysis which will hopefully lead us to some weekend winners.
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After a very successful 3 days of punting at HQ last weekend, we're back this week to look ahead to cracking cards at Ascot and Haydock with both of our naps coming in handicaps, so nice prices to be had!
Enjoy what promises to be a fantastic weekend of racing and, at long last, some soft ground.
Ben & Bruno x
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It's the 3rd and final day of the Cheltenham November meeting...and it's Greatwood Hurdle day! Can Dysart Enos prove just how well handicapped she surely is and stamp her mark on the Mares Hurdle scene? Will Burdett Road recapture the sparkle he showed at this meeting last year? Or is there something else at a bigger price? We go through the 6 race card to hopefully find some nice angles and winners with which to finish off this belter of a weekend.
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We're back again for a full breakdown of Day 2 of the Cheltenham November meeting, including the Paddy Power Gold Cup! It's great card with some opportunities to get our heads in front so fingers crossed...
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We're back at HQ for one of the very best meetings of the year - it's the Cheltenham November Meeting!
We'll be doing a separate preview each day including a very exciting in-person recording for both the day 2 and 3 previews!
Day 1's 6-race card features two competitive handicap hurdles, two novice events, the Shloer Chase and of course the legendary Cross Country so there's loads to get stuck in to with some strong selections at good prices too.
Good luck and enjoy the meeting. What a time to be alive!
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Well the season well and truly kicked off last weekend, didn't it? Aaaaaaah it's good to have the jumps back.
This weekend marks one of Bruno and I's favourite of the season as it's BADGER BEERS weekend at Wincanton, from which we'll be previewing three races, including the big one itself, as well as two from a good card at Aintree, including the first race of the season over the National Fences, the Grand Sefton.
And there are 9/4 and 12/1 NAPs to be had - so get stuck in!
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After a cracking weekend at HQ for the October meeting, the season is in full flow and this weekend always feels like the one where the season's big guns really start to fire on both sides of the Irish Sea.
We preview four compelling handicaps from Ascot as well as the big Graded races at Wetherby and Down Royal, including the Charlie Hall Chase and the Ladbrokes Champion Chase featuring the return of Bruno's favourite horse in training!
We found 4 winners for you at HQ last weekend so let's hope for another good showing. Thanks for listening and enjoy!
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I think we can now legitimately say that the jumps are officially back, and we mark that particular piece of good news with a deeper look at the season's curtain-raiser at Cheltenham - it's the Showcase Meeting, and it's shaping up to be 2 pretty solid days of early season racing.
In our new format for this season, we whizz through the card for both Friday and Saturday, highlighting the horses and punting angles we feel most strongly about in the eternal quest for winners, winners, winners & Binners (Paddy Power's Paul Binfield).
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New season, new format...new music!
We are back after our flat racing-induced hibernation, almost 6 months to the day since we signed off series 3.
This time round we are freshening things up, not least with an epic new bit of intro music which should get the blood pumping before we share with you our 3 horses to follow for the upcoming jumps season, and this time we've each approached the task in very different ways.
Then from next week we'll step properly into our new bitesize format of previewing one of the weekend's racecards in forensic yet snappy detail, hopefully landing on some profitable angles that will at the very least help break down the big racedays.
In the meantime enjoy episode 1 and thanks to everyone for the continued support - hope you are looking forward to the new season as much as we are!
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Every year it's the same. October and the Persian War at Chepstow rolls around and the buzz for the new NH Racing season is audible! We're selecting our horses to follow. We have the first HQ meeting. The Grade 1s start rolling by late November and before we know it we're staring down the barrel of the manic Christmas schedule! The Challow marks the end of the year and with the New Year we're off HQ to shakle off the hangovers then to Warwick for the Classic Chase before the end of Jan/early Feb Cheltenham/DRF melee. Then it's the Cheltenham Festival Preview Nights and we're all like children on Xmas Eve (/totally sick of the previews!) by the time we reach that week in the middle of March. And then it's done...just like that...and we're off to Uttoxeter for the Midlands National and then on to Fairyhouse at Easter and then Aintree for the race that stops the nation!
Before suddenly...it's the Craven meeting at Newmarket and the jumps season is nearly over for another year...How the hell did that happen?
It's always sad when the season winds down but it's been a hell of a ride this year and, in this season finale episode, Bruno and I look back on our highlights as we dish out the now coveted Talking Horses Podcast End of Season Awards - namely Best Horse, Best Race and Best Personal Moment.
Then we look ahead, as one must in this world, to the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and bring you a 5-fold acca each across the championship races. Just for a bit of fun!
And last but by absolutely no means least, we both just wanted to say a massive thank you to all of you that have listened to us during this season. We both have full time jobs and Bruno has a young family. This is just a hobby for us but we love it and it means the world to be able to share our love for the sport with you guys and to have seen our regular listenership grow significantly as the season has progressed. So thank you...and we can't wait to be with you all again in October!
Enjoy Ayr, Sandown and Punchestown and have a great summer. We'll see you soon.
Cheers and much love,
Ben & Bruno x
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We're back for day 2 and 3 of the Grand National meeting after landing a 4/1 NAP on the Thursday!
We get stuck in to a load more Grade 1s and some competitive handicaps, not least the big one - the GRAND NATIONAL itself, in which our mutual antepost pick at 25/1 is sitting pretty (still at 16/1 in places!) after receiving a verbal boost from her major owner on ITV today! Hopefully there are more winners to be found.
Thanks for sticking with us this year and let's finish the season with a bang!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno
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This week we are getting stuck into the GRAND NATIONAL MEETING. Bloody hell that felt like an age to wait after Cheltenham, didn't it?
In this episode we go through an amazing Thursday card at Aintree (including FOUR Grade 1s!) with selections for each race including a 7/2 and 4/1 NAP.
We'll be back on Friday morning with our Friday and Saturday selections.
Enjoy the racing!
Ben & Bruno x
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OK so everyone (it seems) has been banging on (far too negatively for the most part) about the Festival over the last couple of weeks but, within all of that, there is certainly a meaningful conversation to be had about positive change. This week, we compare notes on which races can be canned from our sport's flagship meeting to improve the quality of the races that remain over the week.
Then we look ahead to this Easter weekend's Irish Grand National in our antepost angle and, amongst others, dig out a 20/1 shot whose right-handed form far exceeds his left-handed. "Value!" I hear you cry. Oh yes.
Enjoy the pod and the fantastic Fairyhouse meeting this weekend.
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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Well that was fun wasn't it! Another Cheltenham Festival in the can. We hope it went well for you! Bruno and I had a great time (and are broken now!).
This week, we share a couple of brief reflections on our sport's biggest week both from a racegoer experience and a punting perspective. Spoiler alert - we're not winging!!
Following that we look ahead to the sport's blue riband event, The Grand National, and share our antepost shortlists including a couple on which we both agree at 14 and 20/1 NRNB that are almost certainly going to go off much shorter if they take up their entry.
Time to get excited about the Spring Festivals at Fairyhouse, Aintree, Sandown and Punchestown guys. The jumps are far from over yet!
Cheers and thank you all so much for listening.
Big love,
Ben & Bruno
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Can you smell the Prestbury Park turf yet? Are you seeing Cleeve Hill in your dreams? Is everything you see starting to look like a pint of Guinness?
Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, the week that's better than Christmas for all National Hunt racing fans is finally upon us! Is there a better feeling in the world?
In this episode, we fly through all 28 races bringing you honest opinions on each including BIG fancies, races we can't make head or tail of, favourites to lay and, hopefully, lots and lots of winners. At the very least, we hope it brings food for thought as you cement your own last minute punting positions for the week ahead.
Enjoy. Gamble responsibly. And we hope to see some of you there!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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After covering the Tuesday and Wednesday Festival handicaps in last week's episode, we're back this week to go through the remainder across days 3 and 4.
We look at some of the angles that can often help to find the winner of each race and provide a shortlist for each of the five races, including some stronger fancies for the Plate and the County Hurdle, plus there's a chance Bruno has plucked Chambard mark 2 from obscurity in the Kim Muir! We also appraise each race for whether it's worth having a bet now or waiting until final decs.
Some of the Festival handicaps are more devilish than others but they're races in which we've done fairly well in the past so fingers crossed we've found some more Festival winners in waiting for everyone here!
Look out for our final Festival run-down, out on the Monday morning of Festival week.
Until then, thanks for listening and enjoy the show!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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With less than 3 weeks to go until the Festival and the handicap entries out this week, the handicap markets are about to go into silly season so this week we attempt to get you ahead of the curve with the horses to consider backing now before they shorten and indeed those that are already too short and there to be taken on.
We also discuss which races have a good antepost shape to them vs those in which there's bound to be tons of value on the day.
There are a few really strong fancies and a couple of firm lays so plenty to get the Festival juices flowing even further!
Enjoy the show and thanks for listening.
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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This week we tuck into the discipline of jumps racing that doesn't require any jumping, National Hunt Flat Races, otherwise known as BUMPERS.
We recap on why a lot of people (including us) feel there are far too many of them, and why the sport would be better off addressing that, before we then turn our attentions to the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival, which somewhat ironically looks like one of the best betting heats of the week, in this week's Antepost Angle. And excitingly, we align on two at nice prices including one from the preeminent trial for this race in recent years! Feeling very good about those two....
We hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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WOW...what a weekend in Dublin.
How do we come back from that, especially after putting up 7/1, 16/1 and 20/1 winners!
Well by crunching through ALL of the Cheltenham Festival novice chase antepost markets - that's how! We identify a banker for the Turners and a couple at nice prices in the Arkle, which is now wide open after Marine National bombed out last weekend, and the NH Chase which also looks pretty competitive at this stage.
Enjoy and hopefully this paves the way for some joy in March.
Cheers for now,
Ben & Bruno x
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I mean Trials Day was one of the best in recent memory so just imagine a world in which the following weekend is EVEN BETTER. Well let us tell you, we're living that reality. It's Dublin Racing Festival Time!
This week we go through each of the 15 races across the two days at Leopardstown in a bid to count the number of WP Mullins and JP McManus winners and hopefully make a nice little profit in the process. We pick out 4/1 and 8/1 naps before we wrap up and run off to the airport for our flight to Dublin.
Enjoy what promises to be a cracking weekend of racing with some reputations enhanced, bubbles burst and some surprise results amongst some of the very best NH racing one could hope for.
Cheers for now. See you on the other side!
Ben & Bruno x
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Wow! WHAT day we have ahead of us at HQ on Saturday. This looks to be the best Trials Day card in years and it's a cracker from both a quality and a punting perspective. So much to look forward to!
We crack through all 8 races and share our selections for each, including some bullish ones at good prices in the handicaps.
Enjoy, let's hopefully find some winners and most importantly of all, enjoy the smorgasboard of National Hunt racing that awaits us on Saturday at Prestbury Park.
We'll be back with you next week with a bumper DRF Preview!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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Bruno got really annoyed last weekend after Firefox got beaten in the Lawlor's of Naas that this season's novice hurdler maybe just weren't that good. It got us thinking. How good a bunch (or not) are they and how can we tell? We take a dive into how you can compare groups of horses across seasons and discuss why it matters to punters to know as much as possible about what we're dealing with!
And this week we complete the Cheltenham Festival novice hurdles Antepost Angles (completed it mate) with the Triumph and the Mares Novices Hurdle. We both like the same one at the top of the market in the Triumph, albeit that race looks like it could be one of the races of the week in March.
Looks like a quiet weekend of racing ahead. Why not spend your time listening to this.
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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Well bugger all happened last weekend didn't it. Ah early January....
To fill the void, we look this week at ideas that could really move our sport forward in 2024, including crating a qualification structure for the Cheltenham Festival races and hanging awnings in space to deal with fences being "dolled off" at Aintree due to low sun.
Then in the second of our 2024 Cheltenham Festival Antepost Angles we look ahead to BOTH the Ballymore and Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdles, agreeing on exactly the same 3 for the Ballymore (surely one of these wins!) and hopefully narrowing down the perennial minefield than is the Albert Bartlett.
Great weekend of racing ahead this weekend too so lots to get excited about. The Festival Antepost markets are properly active now so pens and paper at the ready!
We hop you enjoy the show this week!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno
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Happy new year!
Wow what a 2 weeks we've been treated to on the racecourses of the UK and Ireland. You'll be please to know however that this isn't yet ANOTHER review episode and, instead, we're tackling something we think is altogether more interesting in this week's deep ground. Cheltenham Festival winners of recent years have either started their careers in point to points, bumpers or novice hurdles in the UK and Ireland or in hurdles or flat races in France. But which of those have produced the most winners in recent times and for what types of race? We look at the last 6 years and crunch the numbers to see if they can ultimately guide us towards this year's festival winners and what they might tell us about the direction of the sport.
Also, this episode sees the return of our Antepost Angle segment and indeed the first of of this season to focus on a Cheltenham Festival race, namely the Supreme Novices Hurdle which looks at this stage to be dripping with value! We agree on 16 and 33/1 shots and thrown in an additional one to consider backing NRNB and an apparent second string that has achieved way more for his stable than the supposed number !
Thanks as always for listening and do give us a rating if you're feeling generous. Go on. You know you want to...
Much love and happy racing,
Ben & Bruno x
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Every year, we're left feeling dazed and bewildered by New Year's eve as we try to keep up with and digest the barrage of Christmas racing. This year...this year it can and will be different and the Talking Horses Podcast is here to help!
In this special preview episode, we try to break down the insane amount of racing, particularly on Boxing Day and the 27th Dec, to guide you towards the best races and those that are likely to deliver form worth following for the rest of the season.
Remember, enjoy it and don't get bogged down in it. You don't always have to have a bet but you can make notes and build a clear picture for yourself for the second half of the season!
Happy Christmas and roll on Boxing/St Stephen's Day!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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What's this? An episode on a Tuesday? YES. This is the second part of our double episode and this time we're looking at the best novice chasers of the season so far, and there have been some very good performances already! Spoiler...one stands out for us both...but who is it?
We'll be back with you on Thursday this week for a bumper Christmas racing preview!
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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This week we are excited to bring you a double episode, the first of which (this one) is a review of the novice hurdling division so far and which horses have stood out as the cream of the crop. The second will follow early next week where we look at the novice chasers that have taken the eye so far.
We also have a look ahead to two fine days of racing at Prestbury Park with one or two races and horses to pay particular attention to over Friday and Saturday.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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Bruno is back from his week in NYC and thankfully he still has a show to come back to after my solo effort last week. Probably because I tipped a 5/2 and a 7/1 winner on Saturday at Newbury! Remember, this is not a tipping podcast. Or is it.......
This week, we review the status of our horses to follow as we near the busy Christmas period before getting stuck into this week's Deep Ground in which we ask off the back of I Am Maximus' Drinmore success last Sunday, how did the Irish National winner win a Grade Novice Chase 8 months on and is it OK?
And in the return of our Antepost Angle this week, we take a look at the next big 2m handicap hurdle of the season which comes in the form of the Betfair Exchange Hurdle at Ascot's Long Walk Hurdle meeting the weekend before Christmas. Will the Greatwood form come to the fore or are there other form lines to consider? Bruno nearly made it 3/3 in the first Antepost Angles of the season with Mahler Mission last weekend and he's really keen on one here too. Don't miss it.
Enjoy another cracking weekend of racing at Sandown, Aintree, etc, this weekend (they're coming thick and fast at the moment with Cheltenham next week too!).
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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This week Bruno has been summoned to NYC of all places with work and so I'm going solo with an attempt to find some winners for us across the Friday and Saturday at Newbury!
Hopefully I don't lose all of our listeners and Bruno has a podcast to come back.
Enjoy a great weekend of racing and fingers crossed for some profit!
Cheers,
Ben x
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This week we look at what can be done to ensure races don't get swamped with declarations from a single yard after 15 of the 22 runners in last weekend's Troytown Handicap Chase hailed from Gordon Elliott's Cullentra yard. We look at why that ain't the best thing for racing and a solution that could make a big difference to race competitiveness and the balance of power among Irish trainers too.
Then, in the latest of our series of Antepost Angles, we get stuck into our first Grade 1 of the season which is the King George on Boxing Day at Kempton Park. After recent performances form this segment of the show including the winners of the Paddy Power Gold Cup and the Greatwood Hurdle last weekend at Cheltenham, you might want to check this out!
There's good racing at Ascot and Haydock this weekend so we briefly look ahead to that although weekend selections will follow on the social platforms. We've put up a 5/1 winner and 14/1 each way place the last two weeks so keep your eyes peeled!
Thanks for listening and please do give us a quick rating if you possibly can on whatever platform you listen on. We'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
Cheers and enjoy the weekend's racing,
Ben & Bruno x
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This week we dispense with our usual Deep Ground and Antepost Angle features and dive head-first into the forthcoming 3 glorious days at HQ. We take a look at the races that are likely to have the greatest bearing on the rest of the season, in particular at the Festival in March, and highlight one or two horses to keep an eye on this weekend including a Grade 1 horse surely masquerading as a handicapper in Sunday's Greatwood Hurdle!
If you're going to Cheltenham this weekend, have a great time. We might even see you there!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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This week in Deep Ground we discuss race pace. Why is it important? How can you spot how fast horses are going in race? How does that heighten the enjoyment of watching a race and improve your chances if you're having a bet? And is the viewing experience as good as it could be? One thing is for sure, it's great way to get more of an idea of what goes in the minds of those in the saddle!
Then in this week's Antepost Angle segment we take a look at Newbury's showpiece event, the Coral Gold Cup. It's a historic race (of course formerly the Hennessy) with a breathtaking recent roll of honour including the likes of Denman, Bob's Worth, Many Clouds and Native River. Who will follow in their footsteps in 2023? We have two each for you that we think are going to have a serious chance of being on the premises.
And lastly we have a little look ahead to what's on this weekend. It's a mighty three days across Exeter, Newbury, Aintree, Wincanton, Down Royal and Kelso!
Thanks for listening and enjoy a wonderful weekend of National Hunt racing!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno x
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This week we take a look at the well publicised changes to jumps racing's biggest prize, the Grand National. We review the debate as we left it at the end of season 2, highlight the changes that the Jockey Club announced in mid-October and review how they've been received and what impact they may have moving forwards.
Then in this week's Antepost Angle we move on from last week's segment by a single day to the second showpiece of Cheltenham's November meeting, the Greatwood Hurdle. We each highlight a shortlist of 3 and agree on 2 at double figure prices! Hopefully the winner lies among those 4 but are they worth punting now or waiting? We discuss.
Lastly, we finish with our weekend selections from the same race on an excellent card for Ascot's jumps season opener.
Let's hope the weather behaves itself and we get both Ascot and Wetherby tomorrow!
Have a great weekend.
Ben & Bruno x
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This week in Deep Ground we decided to have a look behind the curtain at just what the hell goes on across the pond once a year that justifies the likes of Gordon Elliott, Shark Hanlon, Willie Mullins & Nicky Henderson sending top horses across to compete. It's the American Grand National! It may have come and gone for another year but in this episode we're serving up some facts and figures to paint a bit more of a picture of this enigma of a race.
And this week also sees the return of our Antepost Angle segment for the new season, kicking off with the Paddy Power Gold Cup on the Saturday of Cheltenham's November Meeting. We suss out a few for the shortlist and agree on one at 12/1 that looks to stand out as an unexposed chaser that could be the answer to this year's renewal.
Lastly, we finish with our weekend selections, both from Cheltenham's October Meeting this weekend! God it's good to have racing at HQ back...
Enjoy the show!
Love and punting, Ben & Bruno
[00:08:12] Deep Ground - The American Grand National
[00:23:35] Antepost Angle - Paddy Power Gold Cup (18th Nov '23)
[00:43:43] Weekend Selections from Cheltenham
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We're back for another wonderful season of NH racing and our 3rd season of The Talking Horses Podcast! Thanks to those that have been on the journey with us so far and welcome to those who are joining us here. We're super excited to be back!
We kick off the new season of the podcast as we did last year with our horses to follow for the season ahead, except this year we've extended it from three to FIVE horses each! Ben thinks he's found the Supreme winner and, in the same colours, Bruno has his eye on a juvenile that could make a splash. There are some exciting handicap projects in there too and Bruno fancies Lucinda Russell apparently. It all gets a bit off topic at one point. It's fine though.
We then wrap up with our first weekend selection each for the new season which will hopefully get listeners off to a great start!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno
[00:04:08] Our 5 Each To Follow!
[00:48:00] Weekend Selections from Market Rasen
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It's been a wonderful season of jumps racing and this week we look back at it through the medium of our inaugural end of season awards! But not before we reflect on the debate that's emerged in the last week about the Grand National and whether, ultimately, it can continue in its current guise in today's world.
We hand out awards to horse of the year, race of the year, trainer of the year, professional & conditional jockeys of the year and personal moment of the year before we finish by highlighting some horses to look out for next season, including our picks for the championship races at the '24 Cheltenham Festival.
Thank you SO much to everyone for listening throughout this season of the podcast. We have seen our listeners substantially grow in number and and we're humbled and hugely grateful to everyone that has listened and shared a podcast that we do for no financial gain and for our complete love of the sport. We're honoured to have been on your listening schedule each week and promise to be back in October bigger and better than ever!
Cheers,
Ben & Bruno
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This week we follow on from last week's point to point episode with a bumper episode...and no that does not mean a particularly long one but in fact an episode in which we focus on "bumpers", also known as National Hunt flat races. We ask what they are, why they exist and why there's an increasingly strong voice to reduce the number of bumpers or even remove them from the National Hunt racing programme.
We then look ahead to Friday and Saturday at Aintree for our 3 best bets each from each day as Ben seeks to haul in Bruno's imposing lead in the tipping challenge. Hear what his two double figure priced NAPs are as Bruno bids to hold him at bay with two NAPs that the markets suggest hold every chance.
Enjoy a fabulous three days at Aintree. We'll see you by the rail as we'll be there in the flesh for the first time!
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This week we ask ourselves, what is the point in Point to Point racing? Where did it start, what exactly is it and how does it differ to what we see on TV, where does it take place and which horses from Point to Point backgrounds performed at the very highest level at this year's Cheltenham Festival?
In our antepost angle, we then have a look ahead to Good Monday's Irish Grand National. We identify the key trends for finding the winner in recent years and, in the likely absence of a future Grade 1 performer lurking in this year's field, it looks as though it could pay to look at experience stayers this time around.
We then finish with a couple of horses to consider backing this weekend at Fairyhouse's cracking Easter meeting as Ben attempts to reign in Bruno's handsome lead in the tipping challenge. Top class National Hunt racing is back this weekend - enjoy!
[00:05:27] Deep Ground - What's the point in Point to Point?
[00:32:37] Antepost Angle - Irish Grand National
[00:45:57] Weekend Selections from Fairyhouse
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This week we start getting excited about the jewel in the National Hunt Racing crown, the Grand National at Aintree.
We dive into the history of the race, look at the unique nature of the course and highlight how the race conditions have developed in recent years before applying the key trends of recent winners to select a shortlist of 4 horses for this year's renewal that could be worth an investment, including 2 on which we firmly agree!
We than wrap up with a quick look ahead to this weekend with our weekend selections to follow on social media once declarations have been made.
[00:04:35] Deep Ground - The Grand National - The history, what makes it so special and how has it changed in recent years
[00:26:36] Antepost Angle - The Grand National
[00:48:39] Weekend Selections (Downpatrick and Ascot)
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Cheltenham Festival 2023 - you were wonderful.
This week Ben and Bruno look back on a fantastic four days at Prestbury Park and reflect on the festival as a whole from attendances to the racegoer experience before looking ahead to next year's Festival where we bring you three each to consider backing now for 12 months' time.
And yes, there is life after Cheltenham. This weekend's selections come from Newbury on Saturday and Limerick on Saturday, including a 25/1 home run swing for Ben as he bids to get his nose back in front of the resurgent tipster that is Bruno.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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This week we get stuck into why different racecourses suit certain horses, including some jargon busting of some of the more confusing terminology, and which racecourses bear the greatest similarities to Cheltenham in order to try and shed some light on which non-Cheltenham form might lead one towards Festival winners.
We then go through each of the four days of next week's National Hunt racing showpiece, the Cheltenham Festival, and identify our NAP from each day.
Enjoy next week and let's hope we all find some nice winners.
[00:02:42] - Horses For Courses
[00:35:42] - Cheltenham Festival NAPs
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This week, we get stuck into the meaty topic of National Hunt pedigree including the leading NH Sires and the rise of the French Stallions, particularly evident in their dominant showing at the Dublin Racing Festival. We discuss the differences in the profiles of the leading Stallions in the UK/Ire vs France, the impact of gene pools and prize money, and why it might be that there's a reticence in UK/Ire to send "entires" over obstacles which happens a lot more in France. We also have a look at the leading Sires in terms of Cheltenham Festival winners and look at those most likely to make their mark in two weeks' time.
We then have a look at our top Cheltenham Festival handicap fancies in our Antepost Angle segment, sharing three each that pique our interest more than any other, before wrapping up as always with our weekend selections, this weekend coming from Navan and Kelso.
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This week we're delighted to welcome back friend of the podcast Will Mort from Pat Whelan racing to talk all things antepost betting, but from the Bookmaker's perspective. How do bookies price up antepost markets? Are bookies too quick thee days to cut horses for antepost targets? When is the best time to start building an antepost book and how do you find value?
Morty also gives our listeners an each way Lucky 15 for the Cheltenham Festival as well as a bonus tip for the weekend from Ascot!
With the Cheltenham Festival handicap entries not out until next week, in this week's Antepost Angle we take a look at the four championship races and put up our own each way Lucky 15s, Ben's paying a profit of upward of £1,800 to a £1 stake per bet and Bruno's paying a profit of over £3k!
We wrap up, as usual, with our weekend selections, both from a good card at Haydock.
We're off next week as Bruno is sunning himself so we'll see you all in two weeks!
[00:02:50] Ask The Bookmaker : Antepost Betting w/ Will Mort from Pat Whelan Racing
[00:33:40] Antepost Angle: Cheltenham Festival Championship Races Lucky 15s
[00:44:15] Weekend Selections from Haydock
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We're back this week with a review of the whirlwind of top class National Hunt racing that was last weekend's Dublin Racing Festival, including 3 horses each to take out, our Cheltenham Banker and our predictions of the number of winners last weekend will produce in March (spoiler - we're predicting it to be fruitful!).
We then take a look ahead in our Antepost Angle feature to the Champion Bumper which looks wide open but may not be as wide open as it seems when you look a bit closer and we AGREE on a 20/1 shot to back for the final race on the Wednesday!
Enjoy! Gamble responsibly and good luck this weekend.
[00:03:43] Dublin Racing Festival Review
[00:37:40] Antepost Angle - Champion Bumper
[00:52:30] DRF Take-aways & a look at this weekend's Betfair Hurdle
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It's one bumper preview special after another at the moment!
Straight off the back of last week's Cheltenham Trials Day preview special, we're back this week with a look ahead to another delicious weekend of racing at Leopardstown in its own right but certainly with a view to the Cheltenham Festival too.
We get stuck into 8 races across the two days, discussing Willie Mullins bingo, form lines and how they relate to others with big Festival targets and even possible Irish Champion Hurdle jockey tactics!
We also bring you a best bet each at 7/1 and 8/1!
Enjoy! Gamble responsibly and good luck this weekend.
[00:04:23] Dublin Racing Festival Preview
[00:48:15] Weekend Selections
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This week Ben & Bruno get stuck into this weekend's monster 9 race Trials Day card at Cheltenham, highlighting the races that tend to be pointers to big festival performances in March and some horses to take seriously on Saturday.
They then have a look at the three mares races at the Cheltenham Festival - the Grade 1 Mares Hurdle on the Tuesday, the Grade 2 Mares Novices Hurdle on the Thursday and the Grade 2 Mares Chase on the Friday - creating a nice shortlist for each including one that Ben really fancies for the Mares Novices Hurdle at 10/1!
Finally, they wrap up with a selection each for the weekend from Cheltenham.
[00:04:42] Cheltenham Trials Day Preview
[00:29:10] Antepost Angle - Mares Races at Cheltenham
[00:56:34] Weekend Selections from Cheltenham
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This week Ben & Bruno try and unpick what's at play with a meagre three confirmations last Monday for one of the premier races of the National Hunt calendar, the Clarence House Chase at Ascot, now hopefully being rescheduled to Cheltenham Trials Day after Ascot was abandoned during the recording of this episode!
They then try and unpick the complex tapestry of the novice chasing division ahead of Cheltenham, identifying an overpiced 25/1 shot for the Arkle and two they'd hang their hot on in this division.
Finally, they wrap up with a selection each for the weekend (hopefully!) from Haydock and Navan.
[00:03:16] Deep Ground - Just 3 Confirmation on Monday for the Clarence House
[00:22:45] Antepost Angle - Novice Chasers
[00:38:53] Weekend Selections from Haydock & Navan
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This week the boys consider syndicate ownership – What is it? How does it work? What syndicates’ silks might you have seen on big race days without knowing? What’s the attraction?
They then look ahead to the Stayers Hurdle at Cheltenham in March with a couple each for the shortlist, one of which is mutual and makes plenty of each way antepost appeal, before wrapping up with their weekend selections, both from Warwick, fresh off the back of two big runs from their big-priced selections last weekend.
[00:03:29] Deep Ground – Syndicates, the future of racing?
[00:24:27] Antepost Angle – Cheltenham Festival Stayers Hurdle
[00:39:17] Weekend Selections from Warwick
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In this week's "Deep Ground" we discuss the concept and merits of doing your own "tissue" for a race and have a go at doing our own for this Saturday's Grade 1 Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown, hopefully finding some serious value in the process!
This week's Antepost Angle features the Novice Hurdlers Class of 2023 and the names we have at the top of our lists for the Supreme, Ballymore and Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdles at this year's Cheltenham Festival.
And lastly, as always, we finish up with a tip each for Sandown on Saturday in this week's Tipping Challenge!
[00:03:35] Deep Ground - Finding Value : "The Tissue"
[00:27:39] Antepost Angle - Novice Hurdlers
[00:47:08] Tipping Challenge - Weekend Selections
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In this week's "Deep Ground" the boys are trying to get under the skin of what makes a great ride. They look at three examples from previous Cheltenham Festivals and try to identify what made those widely acclaimed rides so special.
This week's Antepost Angle features the 2023 Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. In light of recent news that all is not 100% for short-priced antepost favourite, Allaho, the boys try to find some alternatives at nice prices that could have you in a nice position come March and settle on two that can be backed at 16/1 and 25/1 respectively.
And lastly as we're pre-declarations for Boxing Day, they wrap up with two horses each to follow over the bumper Christmas racing period.
Have a wonderful Christmas!
[00:05:44] Deep Ground - "Great Rides"
[00:32:06] Antepost Angle - Ryanair Chase
[00:43:43] Two each to follow over Christmas
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The boys are back and in this week's "Deep Ground" they're taking a look at antepost betting - What is it, why is it so popular and how does one go about making it pay?
Fittingly, the "Antepost Angle" feature returns again this week and the focus turns to jumps racing's blue ribband event, the Cheltenham Gold Cup! Ben and Bruno pick out three each to consider at this stage with prices ranging from 7/1 to 25/1!
They wrap up with a selection each from Cheltenham on Saturday with Bruno fresh off the back of banging in Noble Yeats at 6/1 last week.
[00:03:14] Deep Ground - A look at antepost betting
[00:28:48] Antepost Angle - Cheltenham Gold Cup
[00:46:32] Weekend Selections from Cheltenham
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This week the boys endeavour to lift the mist that can descend over the Christmas period where the racing comes thick and fast. It's often said that "the picture is clearer after Christmas" and so Ben and Bruno pick out the top level races from either side of the Irish Sea that are likely to have the biggest bearing on the second half of this National Hunt season, including an antepost pick each!
They then wrap up with a selection each from this weekend's racing, one from Aintree in the Many Clouds Chase and a double from Sandown!
Even though the flame of the flat season has dimmed, we'll have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:01:57] Deep Ground - "Festive Fun - The races to follow this Christmas period"
[00:46:47] Weekend Selections from Aintree and Sandown
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This week the boys look back on the events of last weekend at Ascot and ask why is good ground not good for national hunt race horses?
They then have a quick recap on their horses to follow for this season and how they're looking a couple of months in to the season before a quick look at tomorrow's Coral Gold Cup and then a weekend selection each from Newbury on Saturday.
Even though the flame of the flat season has dimmed, we'll have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:01:59] Deep Ground - Why is good ground not good?
[00:26:30] Horses to Follow Recap & Coral Gold Cup Selections
[00:38:42] Weekend Selections from Newbury
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This week the boys dedicate the entire episode to three of the best days of jumps racing in the season, the Cheltenham November Meeting.
Bruno has done some sparkling research to give us a fascinating background on the history of Cheltenham Racecourse and this meeting in particular, following which the key races of the meeting are scrutinised in terms of those which are most likely to produce horses to follow and, crucially , Cheltenham festival winners based on recent history.
The boys also recap on the trends for finding the winner of the Paddy Power Gold Cup (Saturday) and Greatwood Hurdle (Saturday) before finishing with a selection each from the November Meeting.
Even though the flame of the flat season has dimmed, we'll have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:01:41] The History of Cheltenham Racecourse & The November Meeting
[00:10:33] November Meeting Preview - races to follow this weekend for the rest of this season
- [00:30:11] Paddy Power Gold Cup trends & selections recap
- [00:39:49] Greatwood Hurdle trends & selections recap
[00:49:23] Weekend Selections from Cheltenham
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This week Ben & Bruno discuss the problem with too much racing, in light of last weekend's farcical walkover for Pentland Hills in a novice chase at Huntingdon, and what's being done about it
They then follow up last week's Antepost Angle with a look at the other of the two big Cheltenham November meeting handicaps, the Greatwood Hurdle, won last year by West Cork in the form of a classic Skelton plot job. Will there be another this year or is the winner likely to come from elsewhere? They pick out the key trends for finding previous winners before providing a selection each from the 40 entries.
And lastly, the Tipping Challenge wraps up the episode with a selection each from Saturday, from Aintree as Ben looks to wrestle back the advantage from Bruno!
Even though the flame of the flat season has dimmed, we'll have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:03:26] Deep Ground - "Too much racing" - what's going on, why does it matter and what's being done?
[00:22:39] Antepost Angle - Greatwood Hurdle (Cheltenham, 13th November)
[00:37:13] Weekend Selections from Aintree
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In light of last week's Safer Gambling week, this week Ben and Bruno discuss their own approaches to and feelings about punting and what they've learned over the years.
They then look ahead to one of the hottest handicaps of the early part of the jumps season, the Paddy Power Gold Cup at the Cheltenham November won last year by the legend but sadly ill-fated Midnight Shadow. They pick out the key trends for finding previous winners before providing a shortlist of six from the 36 entries.
And lastly, the Tipping Challenge wraps up the episode with a selection each from Saturday, both from competitive handicap hurdles at Galway and Ascot at nice prices!
Even though the flame of the flat season has almost flickered out, we'll have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:07:51] Deep Ground - "Punting Perspectives" - our approaches to punting, how we feel about it and what we've learned
[00:25:51] Antepost Angle - Paddy Power Gold Cup (Cheltenham, 12th November)
[00:40:55] Weekend Selections
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This week Ben and Bruno discuss this Monday's news of the Jockey Club announcing the Cheltenham Festival, jump racing's flagship event, will remain at four days (at least for now) and not be extended to five as many feared it would. They look at some of the reasons given, the wider reaction and some of the improvements that the Jockey Club might have in mind (or should!) to improve the Festival.
In the first Antepost Angle feature of the new season, the lads look ahead to the Grade 1 King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day. They highlight some of the key ten year trends, leading trainers and the likelihood of Irish travellers before sharing a long range selection each at 16/1 and 40/1!
And lastly, the Tipping Challenge wraps up the episode with a selection each from the Friday and Saturday of this weekend's Showcase Meeting at Cheltenham - one at 11/4 for a trainer that always targets this meeting and another at 7/2 for a very familiar trainer and connections.
Even though the flame of the flat season has almost flickered out, we'll also have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:04:39] Deep Ground - "Four the best?" The Cheltenham Festival remains at four days.
[00:24:15] Antepost Angle - King George VI Chase (Kempton Park, Boxing Day)
[00:40:28] Weekend Selections
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After a summer break, Ben and Bruno are back with a brand new season of the Talking Horses Podcast in association with Roudee Racing!
This week Ben and Bruno review horse racing's answer to Drive to Survive in the form of "Horsepower", the new 4 part documentary released on amazon Prime last month that tracks the fortunes of Oisin Murphy and the Andrew Balding yard from late 2020 through to Royal Ascot 2021. They assess whether the programme fits the brief of making racing more accessible to the mass audience.
As it its now the beginning of the jumps season (woohoo!), they also bring you their "Three to follow" for the 2022/23 season including an exciting juvenile and a very well handicapped staying chaser. Hopefully there are plenty of winners to be had between the six selections!
And lastly, the Tipping Challenge returns with Ben and Bruno providing their weekend selection from Market Rasen and Newton Abbott respectively as the smaller UK jumps tracks prepare to welcome some exciting horse as they begin their long and hopefully successful seasons.
Even though the flam of the flat season is slowly flickering out, we'll also have plenty of content from our friends at Roudee Racing this season so watch this space! As always, you can also find out more about this fantastic syndicate and how to get involved with ownership through their website: https://roudeeracing.com/
[00:04:36] Deep Ground - Horsepower, the review
[00:27:19] Jumps Season 2022/23 - Three to follow!
[00:40:16] Weekend Selections
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This week Ben and Bruno dip their toes back into the jumps waters and take a look at the jumps seasons so far as well as a look ahead to next week's Galway Festival.
They also preview the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday and finish with their weekend selections, both of which are from Ascot this week.
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[00:01:58] Deep Ground - Summer Jumpin'
[00:44:08] King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes Preview
[00:49:14] Weekend Selections!
This week Ben and Bruno delve into the new whip rule recommendations that were published this week, including what they are and what they might mean for the sport and its various stakeholders going forwards.
They then provide their weekend selections from Newbury and Chester this weekend.
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[00:02:02] Deep Ground - The new whip rule recommendations
[00:37:20] Weekend Selections!
This week Ben and Bruno take on the question of what happens to race horses when they retire from racing? What are the common routes for retired race horses, how is their welfare looked after and who is responsible, how are they traced and what more can the sport be doing in this area?
They then provide their weekend selections from Newmarket and Ascot.
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[00:04:28] Deep Ground - What happens to race horses after they retire?
[00:37:21] Weekend Selections!
The podcast is back after a week off for Royal Ascot and this week Ben and Bruno look back on the Royal meeting after a sun-baked week of wonderful racing with, after two years of disruption, the return of all the trimmings!
They then preview the next classic of the season in the form of this Saturday's Irish Derby at the Curragh, agreeing on the potential value in the race in the process(!), before wrapping up with this weekend's selections from Newcastle and Newmarket.
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[00:04:56] Deep Ground - Royal Ascot Reflections
[00:34:07] Irish Derby Preview
[00:50:18] Weekend Selections!
With Bruno on holiday this week, Ben is left to fend for himself but he's joined but two special guests to keep him company.
Firstly, he meets top jockey Rob Hornby who rode Westover to a luckless 3rd place in his first ever ride in The Derby last weekend. Rob talks us through what it's like riding in the world's most prestigious flat race and his view on how the race panned out as well as his background in racing and some of his big rides next week at Royal Ascot.
Mike Edwards from Roudee Racing also joins Ben to talk about the Roudee Racing horses as well as why the Oaks and Derby meeting at Epsom Downs is such a fantastic experience for racegoers. He also gives us not one but TWO ante-post tips for Royal Ascot and, as he currently has a podcast strike rate of 100%, who are we to argue?
Bruno then mails in his weekend selection from the Tuscan countryside to accompany Ben's to wrap up the episode so stay tuned!
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[00:02:37] Ben meets Rob Hornby
[00:28:50] The Derby review and the Roudee Racing Horses with Mike Edwards (+ two Royal Ascot Ante-post tips!)
[00:53:32] Weekend Selections!
This week, Ben meets red hot jockey and all around good guy Ben Curtis to discuss his spectacular start to the flat season, how he got into race-riding and the winners he's ridden for Roudee Racing this season including when breaking Glorious Angel's maiden tag at Redcar on Monday. He also gives us a recent ride of his to follow for the rest of the season!
Following on from the promise made in last week's episode with Will Mort from Pat Whelan Racing, Ben and Bruno then attempt to do their own "tissue" by pricing up Friday's Coronation Cup at Epsom, possibly finding some value in the process, before previewing both The Oaks and The Derby including a main pick and one at a price from both races!
They wrap up by providing their weekend selections after another winner for listeners last week in Sea La Rosa!
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[00:03:54] Ben meets Ben Curtis
[00:27:42] Ben and Bruno's "tissue" for the Group 1 Coronation Cup at Epsom on Friday
[00:35:03] Previewing The Oaks and The Derby
[00:53:42] Weekend Selections!
This week, Ben and Bruno talk to Will Mort from Pat Whelan racing about life inside the betting ring, pricing up races, the battle of punter vs bookmaker and what needs to be done to educate the punters of tomorrow. It's an absolutely fascinating chat!
The boys also take a look at Roudee Racing's runners in the coming days, with Roudemental having been declared for the 1m2f handicap at 4.55 at Chester on Saturday, before looking to Saturday's cards at Beverley and Haydock for their weekend selections!
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[00:02:46] Deep Ground "A bookmaker's perspective with Will Mort"
[00:36:03] Looking ahead to Roudee Racing's upcoming runners
[00:45:34] Weekend Selections from Beverley and Haydock
This week, Ben talks to one of the new Roudee Racing owners, Scott Davis, who tells us all about his love affair with racing and Chester racecourse and his involvement with Glorious Angel and Ibiza Love - it really is a family affair!
Ben also catches up with Mike Edwards of Roudee Racing to review the very encouraging performances from Ibiza Love and Roudemental at Doncaster last weekend before looking ahead to Glorious Angel's run at Haydock on Friday afternoon.
In this week's Deep Ground, Ben and Bruno ask, as the British public feel the pinch of the rising cost of living, whether racegoers really getting the best bang for their buck?
And stay tuned to the end for this weekend's selections from Haydock on Saturday!
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[00:03:00] Interview with Scott Davis, part-Owner of Glorious Angel and Ibiza Love
[00:20:10] Interview with Mike Edwards - reviewing Ibiza Love and Roudemental from last Saturday at Doncaster and looking ahead to Glorious Angel at Haydock this Friday!
[00:36:49] Deep Ground - "Are racegoers getting the best bang for their buck?"
[00:58:46] Weekend Selections from Haydock
With Ben and Bruno having (just about) recovered from last week's fabulous Chester May Festival, they talk to Roudee Racing's Mike Edwards about Glorious Angel's excellent run in the Lily Agnes Stakes at the festival and look ahead to an exciting Saturday for the syndicate at Doncaster this weekend in which the well-bred Ibiza Love makes her racecourse debut and Roudemental attempts to make it two wins on the bounce.
Deep Ground is back this week and, having seen all the Derby trials in the last eight days, the guys have a go at demystifying the oldest and most famous English Classic with a view to finding this year's winner.
And stay tuned to the end for this weekend's selections from Newbury and Newmarket!
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[00:03:12] Interview with Roudee Racing's Mike Edwards
[00:20:10] "Deep Ground" - Demystifying The Derby
[00:41:53] Weekend Selections from Newbury & Newmarket!
Another week, another cracking line-up of guests! This week Ben and Bruno welcome Roudee Racing's Dylan Jenkins and fellow syndicate owner Neil Mather to tell us from their own perspectives why Chester and the May Festival in particular are so special and what it means to have a runner at the city's biggest race meeting of the year. Mike Edwards, co-Founder of Roudee Racing, also drops in for an update on Glorious Angel, who hopefully runs in the Lily Agnes on the Wednesday of the Festival next week, as well as Roudemental and Lordman who are both out in the next few days.
Ben and Bruno also take a look at some of the big races across the three days at Chester before finishing up with their tipping challenge selections for this week, both from Punchestown on Friday as the jumps season in Ireland draws to a close.
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[00:02:40] Interview with Dylan Jenkins - the magic of the Chester May Festival
[00:12:38] Interview with Neil Mather - an owner's perspective on having a runner at the Festival
[00:24:04] Interview with Mike Edwards - Roudee Racing's runners in the next week, including Glorious Angel who goes the Lily Agnes on the Wednesday of the Festival!
[00:40:58] A beginner's guide to the big races during May Festival week
[00:50:41] Weekend Selections from Punchestown!
This week we have a very exciting episode as Ben meets Hugo Palmer and Ross Coakley to discuss Roudee Racing's first runners of the new flat season - Glorious Angel and Lordman! Hugo also gives us an update on Roudemental just over a week before he's due to kick off his 2022 campaign.
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Ben and Bruno also look back at a fabulous Fairyhouse Easter Festival over in Ireland last weekend and then ahead to the jumps season finale at Sandown this weekend, including their selection each from that card!
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[00:04:32] Interview with Hugo Palmer
[00:21:15] Interview with Ross Coakley
[00:42:26] Fairyhouse Easter Festival Review
[00:57:52] Sandown Preview & Weekend Selections
[01:07:58] Three Out
This week, the Ben & Bruno scrutinise jumps racing's flagship event and whether revisions to the race format are required on safety grounds.
They also review the wonderful three days of racing at Aintree and look ahead to the three day Easter festival at Fairyhouse, culminating in the Irish Grand National on Easter Monday, with two tips for Saturday!
Enjoy, rate and review and please do leave us your questions/thoughts to tackle in future episodes.
[00:06:06] "Deep Ground" - Can the Grand National be made safer?
[00:22:26] Aintree Review
[00:34:46] Fairyhouse Preview
[00:43:12] Weekend Selections
[00:50:58] Three Out
It's Grand National Week and the boys look ahead to three glorious days of racing up at Aintree including not one but TWO selections, one for the National itself and one from the supporting races, off the back of a successful weekend's tipping last weekend!
In this week's Deep Ground, they address the significant negative press from leading commentators, namely Lydia Hislop, around the apparently farcical appeal hearing relating to Robbie Dunne's appeal against his 18 month ban handed down last December by an Independent Disciplinary Panel for bullying fellow jockey Bryony Frost. They assess what that means for the sport of racing now and in the future, especially in the week of the year where the public eye is drawn to racing more than any other.
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[00:05:24] "Deep Ground" - The apparent debacle of Robbie Dunne's appeal process and what that means for racing.
[00:26:06] Weekend Review - A winner each tipped up in Episode 10!
[00:31:12] Aintree Preview including twoselections each for the next three days!
[00:50:58] "Three Out"
Episode 10 marks a big moment for the podcast as the THP boys meet Mike Edwards and Dylan Jenkins, the founders of the fabulous Roudee Racing syndicate! Ben and Bruno travelled up to Manor House stables to meet the guys and ask them everything from how they fell in love with racing and how they first got into ownership through to setting up their own syndicate, what it stands for and what their aspirations are for horses and owners going forwards. It's a fascinating interview and look for plenty more content from Roudee Racing in future episodes as we follow the syndicate's exciting journey and all that entails!
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In terms of upcoming racing, this weekend is Ayr's showpiece jumps meeting culminating in the Scottish Champion Hurdle and Scottish Grand National on Saturday afternoon. Ben and Bruno look ahead to both including their weekend selections!
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[00:00:01] Talking Horses meets Roudee Racing
[00:46:27] Weekend Preview - Scottish Champion Hurdle & Scottish Grand National
[00:59:04] Weekend Selections
This is what it says on the tin really!
Ben and Bruno pick the bones out of all 28 races at the Festival including their personal highlights and even a very early selection each for next year...
[00:02:52] Day One
[00:25:22] Day Two
[00:42:45] Day Three
[01:03:40] Day Four
[01:21:28] Highlights of the week
[01:23:19] 2023 Cheltenham Festival Selections!
This week in "Deep Ground", Ben & Bruno look at the clash of the British and Irish handicapping systems that is causing a lot of noise on the eve of the Cheltenham Festival (as it seems to every year!).
With Cheltenham in mind, they also take an antepost look at jumps racing's blue ribband event, the Gold Cup, and identify a shortlist of three...
They review a wonderful Saturday at Kelso as well as look ahead to good racing at Sandown and Navan this weekend and of course look out as always for their weekend selections but also their Cheltenham NAPs!
And lastly check out Three Out were they scrutinise trainer form going into the biggest week of the season as well as some form lines to keep an eye on that might help you pick a winner or two at Cheltenham.
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[00:02:55] "Deep Ground" - "When British & Irish handicapping systems meet - does the current system work for jumps racing or do we need a universal handicap?"
[00:25:19] Antepost Angle - The Cheltenham Gold Cup
[00:40:24] Weekend Review - Kelso, Newbury, Doncaster & Navan
[00:52:41] Weekend Preview, Weekend Selections & Cheltenham NAPs!
[01:03:54] Three Out - Trainer form, Cheltenham form lines to watch & what's the difference between Cheltenham's Old Course and the New?
This week Ben and Bruno attempt to provide an accessible perspective on pedigrees for the average racing fan in "Deep Ground" as well as reviewing last weekend's action and previewing a couple of highlights form good cards at Kelso and Newbury.
With Cheltenham in mind, they also take an antepost look at the Stayers Hurdle with a couple of selections from among the main contenders as well as another each at tasty prices!
And of course look out as always for their weekend selections. Bruno is coming in hot off the back of a winner in Knight Salute last weekend!
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[00:10:45] "Deep Ground" - Considering pedigrees in horse racing - an average racing fan's view.
[00:29:00] Antepost Angle - The Stayers Hurdle
[00:43:42] Weekend Review - Kempton & Fairyhouse
[00:53:14] Weekend Preview & Weekend Selections!
[01:01:28] Three Out
This week Ben and Bruno look back on last weekend's action at Ascot and Gowran Park and take a brief look at the racing this weekend as we enter the calm before the Cheltenham storm.
With Cheltenham in mind, they also take a look at some antepost fancies for the Festival handicaps with the entries having been announced this week.
In this week's "Deep Ground" segment, they address the case of Champ Is Real, in the context of the massive gamble that was landed on that horse at Musselburgh last Sunday, and ask "do big gambles give racing a bad name?"
And of course look out as always for their weekend selections. They like these two this week...
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[00:03:44] Weekend Review
[00:23:12] "Deep Ground" - The case of Champ Is Real. Do big gambles give racing a bad name?
[00:45:20] Antepost Angle - Cheltenham Festival Handicaps
[00:59:33] Weekend Preview & Weekend Selections!
[01:09:59] Three Out
This week Ben and Bruno look back on last weekend's good quality action at Newbury, Warwick, Naas and Punchestown and unearth clues for the Cheltenham Festival and beyond. Ben pats himself on the back for securing his first Weekend Selection winner and Bruno licks his wounds after so nearly firing in a 16/1 shot!
In this week's "Deep Ground" segment, they address the Tiger Roll Grand National debate. Is his rating for the 2022 renewal fair? Is the Grand National handicapping system fair? Was the Gigginstown reaction justified? There's lots to discuss and demystify with respect to the biggest horse race in the world!
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[00:02:40] Weekend Review
[00:28:10] "Deep Ground" - The Tiger Roll Grand National Debate!
[00:47:47] Weekend Preview - Ascot, Wincanton, Haydock Park (Eunice allowing!) & Gowran Park
[01:01:37] Weekend Selections!
[01:05:18] Three Out
This week Ben and Bruno look back on last weekend's action at the Dublin Racing Festival, preview some of this weekend's racing at Newbury and Warwick, and endeavour to break the duck and tip a winner in their weekend selections (although A Wave of The Sea was given a favourable mention in Episode 3 before his win at Leopardstown on Saturday!).
Also in this week's "Deep Ground" segment, they explore why water jumps still exist on British racecourses and whether there's more that the BHA should be doing to ensure racecourse safety for horses.
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[00:02:46] Dublin Racing Festival Review
[00:24:15] "Deep Ground" - Why do water jumps still exist on UK racecourses?
[00:42:28] Weekend Preview - Denman Chase, Game Spirit Chase, Betfair Hurdle, Kingmaker Novices Chase, etc.
[01:00:47] Weekend Selections!
[01:05:32] Three Out
This week Ben and Bruno look back on last weekend's action at Cheltenham, Fairyhouse and Naas as well looking ahead to excitement of this weekend's Dublin Racing Festival and endeavour to go one (or even two) better than last week and tip a winner!
Also in this week's "Deep Ground" segment, they explore whether a fifth day at the Cheltenham Festival is the right thing for the sport?
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[02:34] Weekend Review
[20:00] Deep Ground - "Is a fifth day at the Cheltenham Festival the right thing for the sport?"
[38:17] Weekend Preview
[58:15] Weekend Selections
[1:01:04] Three Out
This week, Bruno and Ben review the modern day epic that was last weekend's Clarence House, preview Cheltenham Trials Day this weekend, tackle the sticky matter of horses being ridden with their handicap mark in mind, and take an ante-post look at the Pertemps Final at Cheltenham in March with a pretty exciting outcome!
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[04:00] Weekend Review
[31:11] Deep Ground - "Should a trainer be within their rights to use the handicap system to their advantage?"
[47:03] Weekend Preview
[1:09:08] Bruno & Ben's Weekend Selections
[1:10:13] Antepost Preview - Cheltenham Festival Pertemps Final
[1:23:16] Three Out
Phil and Ben take a look at the blockbuster weekend of racing, headlined by an almighty renewal of the Clarence House Chase at Ascot, as well as tackle some ante-post betting angles for the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival and discussing the big question, "is racing dong all it can to promote itself to it's current audience?"