Racing

Kauto Star's attempt to win a fifth King George now hinges on the weather

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.

Tony McCoy is self-effacing about the prospect of winning the BBC's award on Sunday

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.

Donald McCain: 'He (Wymott) travelled like a good horse but tended to idle once he hit the front, and this will have taught him a lot'

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.

No jockey, not even Lester Piggott, has won the BBC Sports Personality award

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.

Breedsbreeze and Daryl Jacob lead over the last from the eventual winner Tartak (Paddy Brennan) in the Peterborough Chase at Newbury yesterday

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.

Willie Mullins brings some key contenders to the Grade One races at Fairyhouse today, including Mikael d'Haguenet in the Bar One Drinmore Chase

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.

Robert Thornton rode a double at Plumpton yesterday, his first winners since returning from knee injuries which kept him out of action for six months

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.

Ryan Moore: The jockey steered Snow Fairy to victory in Hong Kong

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.

Though it kills me  to say it, I'm very aware that racing, these days, is a minority sport,' says Tony McCoy

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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Mary Ann Sieghart: Drunk on a spirit of anarchy

Much better simply to boycott Topshop or Vodafone if you feel strongly

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Ghost of Tiny Tim haunts coalition

If only we had our own Dickens to fight for our defenceless young

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Charles Nevin: These are a few of my favourite short things

1. Shortbread. 2. Winning jockeys. 3. Shakespeare's Sonnets. 4. Whisky.


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