Assistant trainer Sara Bradstock has dropped a major hint that Coneygree’s next assignment will be the William Hill King George VI Chase on December 26.

An epidemic of misguided revisionism seems to be unbalancing some normally straight thinking folk lately.

All-Ireland football semi-final day. Home in front of the telly.

Liam Lennon has his fingers firmly crossed Tammys Hill can transfer his smart hunter chase form to the open ranks when his stable star goes for glory in the Boylesports Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday.

The weights for Easter Monday’s Boylesports Irish Grand National are set to rise by 3lb after Fairyhouse manager Peter Roe confirmed yesterday that the Paul Webber-trainedCantlow was a definite traveller.

A new documentary reveals how the only horse capable of beating the legendary Arkle was his stable mate, Flyingbolt but that they only had one little-known explosive race together around their home gallops.

Willie Mullins’ winning machine may have an enviable record but he is still pigeon-holed as the Robbie Keane of racing.

I’m going to go back to my RTÉ days for my best interview.

Simonsig drained the pressure from a tense Nicky Henderson with a flawless novice chasing initiation at Ascot yesterday.

IT was one of those heart-stopping sporting moments.

Ruby Walsh has an enviable book of rides at Cheltenham as he bids to add to his record tally of winners at the Festival.

EARLIER this week’s boxing’s ‘The Greatest’ Muhammad Ali, celebrated his 70th birthday and 50 years ago yesterday, National Hunt racing’s equivalent, the peerless steeplechaser Arkle, gained his first victory in a modest novice hurdle at Navan.

THE more one looks at last Monday’s King George at Kempton, the more convinced you become that the Cheltenham Gold Cup is Long Run’s to lose.

If James Motherway’s Bluesea Cracker wins the Grand National, she’ll become the first mare since Nickel Coin back in 1951 to win the race. But Declan Colley says it will cause a sensation for reasons other than her sex.

KAUTO Star has been ruled out of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday week.

Kauto Star has been ruled out of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday week.

Kauto Star’s brilliant display in winning the King George VI Chase for a record fourth successive time has earned him the right to be compared to the mighty Arkle.

I THINK it will take an extraordinary display by Denman if he is to defy top weight in the Hennessy at Newbury today.

BERONI, confidently ridden by Paul Townend, gave champion trainer Willie Mullins his first win in the prestigeous Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan yesterday.

FOR many people it is the romance of racing that is the attraction; of being part of – or merely witnessing – fabled stories which are ultimately woven into the very fabric of the sport and become legend.

Quite.

Racegoers will have the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of turf legend Arkle at Cheltenham’s April 19 fixture.

ANTE-POST punters suffered a pre-Christmas blow after learning that Yes Sir is to bypass a clash with the big boys in Kempton’s Stan James King George VI Chase.

THOMAS O’Leary holds the halter of stable star Scarthy Lad in one hand, while the other hoses the ‘Stay Sound’ compound from the horse’s off foreleg. There’s a wistful, but resigned, look on his face as the plaster-esque substance dilutes and runs down the drain.

Kauto Star heads nine entries for the rescheduled Levy Board Game Spirit Chase at Lingfield on Saturday.

Tony McCoy described Best Mate as “the best steeplechaser we’ve seen around for a long time” as he paid tribute to the triple Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, who died at Exeter on Tuesday.

BEEF OR SALMON, in many ways the great nearly horse of Irish racing, has to finally stand and deliver in next Tuesday’s Lexus ’Chase at Leopardstown!

Art and memorabilia honouring one of Britain’s most famous racehorses goes under the hammer next month.

Amberleigh House, fresh from success in last weekend’s Martell Cognac Grand National, will make an appearance at Bangor racecourse a week from today.

Best Mate is a top-priced 9-4 with Coral to land a fourth tote sport Cheltenham Gold Cup after emulating the mighty Arkle with a third victory in the great race yesterday.

AS A JOCKEY, the late Pat Taaffe is rightly regarded as one of the all-time greats in National Hunt racing on the basis of his own record in the sport.

“DIFFERENT CLASS,” was Jim Culloty’s summation after his mount, Best Mate, toyed with the opposition in yesterday’s Ericsson Chase at Leopardstown.

BEST MATE simply lives on a different planet to any other chaser in the universe. That can be the only conclusion, following the total crushing of his rivals in yesterday’s Tote Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

BARRY GERAGHTY has real prospects of landing the two big races at Gowran Park this afternoon aboard Liss A Paoraigh and Moscow Express.

Ireland has produced some brilliant and some highly-popular National Hunt horses down the years, with Arkle and Dawn Run perhaps the two who fit most readily into both categories.

Istabraq is set to be retired after his bid for a record fourth Smurfit Champion Hurdle victory ended in anti-climax today.