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Kauto and Kempton feel the chill
Kauto Star may be an irresistible force, but a deep layer of snow certainly represented a fairly immovable object at the beginning of a week that is supposed to end with his historic quest for a fifth consecutive success in the William Hill King George VI Chase.
Inside Racing
Doubts about the King George
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Sue Montgomery: Snow white and the seven days – Kempton seeks happy ending for its panto.
Chris McGrath: McCoy's turn in spotlight leaves no hiding place for other ambassadors of Turf
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Inside Track
A P McCoy: 'It was the best. I'll never have another day like it in racing'
Friday, 17 December 2010
Interview No 3: In the third in a series of interviews with sportspeople who have had a memorable 2010, the jockey tells Brian Viner about ending his Aintree hoodoo and the prospect of overdue BBC recognition.
Wymott digs in for follow-up win
Friday, 17 December 2010
Sue Montgomery: With the weather closing in again, jump trainers are grabbing opportunities while they are there.
A noble bandwagon or a cynical plot to nobble the vote?
Friday, 17 December 2010
Sue Montgomery: Racing has pulled out all the stops in a bid to crown McCoy – but it may have gone too far.
Blizzards clear for Hurricane, but day ends in a bitter Twist
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Chris McGrath: It was certainly worth the wait, and for Willie Mullins it came within an ace of being a perfect day.
Mullins seizes chance to bring out the big guns
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Chris McGrath: As though in sadistic collaboration with a bitter economic climate, the weather has been making life tougher still for the Irish racing community over the past three weeks.
Medermit and Thornton back on right track
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Chris McGrath: Injury and insults were respectively consigned to history at Plumpton yesterday when Robert Thornton and Medermit each made a significant return to the fold.
Snow Fairy lights up Hong Kong
Monday, 13 December 2010
Though nobody could be at all surprised to see several Cheltenham Festival winners emerge from a weekend that properly raised the temperature of the jumps season, it would be deplorably parochial not to acknowledge first the winner of a Flat race staged on the other side of the world.
Tony McCoy: 'I am a jump jockey. I will end up in that ambulance from time to time'
Sunday, 12 December 2010
He starves himself, has broken almost every bone and ridden more than 3,000 winners. It is why he should be a dead cert to win Sports Personality. Sue Montgomery meets Tony McCoy.
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1 Kauto and Kempton feel the chill
2 Chris McGrath: McCoy's turn in spotlight leaves no hiding place for other ambassadors of Turf
3 Tony McCoy: 'I am a jump jockey. I will end up in that ambulance from time to time'
4 Chris McGrath: McCoy's personality is big enough to rise above factions and criticism
5 High noon for the gunslingers with sights set on Triple Crown
6 Doubts about the King George
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