Racing Weekly

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner link up again to preview the Grand National Festival from Aintree. We also speak with Peter Scudamore, assistant trainer of the 6/1 favourite Corach Rambler who won so well at the Cheltenham Festival in March, as they set about winning the most prestigious jumps race of all. First though, they discuss a good weekend of racing from Fairyhouse where the Irish Grand Nation...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Andy Holding to look back on the Cheltenham Festival 2023 and put up a couple ante-post fancies for Cheltenham 2024. On day one we were spoiled by some wonderful performances at Prestbury Park as Constitution Hill continued to develop into one of horse racing's greats in the Champion Hurdle. Honeysuckle gave us the fairy tale ending to her glittering caree...

In the fourth of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2023 previews, host Rishi Persad is joined by Racing Weekly's very own Sam Turner, Irish racing expert Johnny Ward, Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Nick Scholfield and bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss day four of the Festival. Racing Weekly was filmed live at the George IV pub in Chiswick as our panel give their expert tips and opinions ahead of Gol...

In the third of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2023 previews, host Rishi Persad is joined by Racing Weekly's very own Sam Turner, Irish racing expert Johnny Ward, Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Nick Scholfield and bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss day three of the Festival. Racing Weekly was filmed live at the George IV pub in Chiswick as our panel give their expert tips and opinions ahead of Thu...

In the second of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2023 previews, host Rishi Persad is joined by Racing Weekly's very own Sam Turner, Irish racing expert Johnny Ward, Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Nick Scholfield and bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss day two of the Festival. Racing Weekly was filmed live at the George IV pub in Chiswick as our panel give their expert tips and opinions ahead of anot...

In the first of four daily Cheltenham Festival 2023 previews, host Rishi Persad is joined by Racing Weekly's very own Sam Turner, Irish racing expert Johnny Ward, Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Nick Scholfield and bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss day one of the Festival. Racing Weekly was filmed live at the George IV pub in Chiswick as our panel give their expert tips and opinions ahead of the o...

Harry Derham started his career as a jockey enjoying three years in the saddle, riding 50 winners including a winner at the Cheltenham Festival aboard Salubrious. After identifying his love for racing was not in the saddle Harry retrained at Paul Nicholls’ stable and quickly became a vital part of his team as Assistant Trainer, a role he held for six years. Now, going it alone with his own team, h...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner welcome back the Cheltenham ante-post king Gavin Lynch as we dissect another action-packed weekend of racing with Shishkin's return to form thrusting him as favourite for the Ryanair Chase. We also preview the Eider Chase with well backed ante post favourite Kitty’s Light leading the market and the Coral Trophy Handicap Chase with a look at Cap Du Nord. L...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner look back at a packed weekend of racing with the agenda beginning with Aucunrisque’s win in the Betfair Hurdle. We discuss Zanza’s unlikely win in the Denman Chase, Funambule Sivola bouncing back to in the Game Spirit Chase plus analyse Jonbon’s performance in the Kingmaker Novices’ Chase from Warwick. Later in the show we preview the Betfair Ascot Chase and take a clos...

Rishi Persad is back in the saddle alongside Sam Turner and Steve Mellish to discuss the fallout from the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown. Later we preview the Betfair Hurdle card at Newbury and also have a look at the contenders for the Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March. We are delighted to announce Racing Weekly is going live for a very special Cheltenham Festival preview...

Sam Turner and Andy Holding join stand-in host Steve Ryder to look ahead to the Dublin Racing Festival before reviewing the action from Cheltenham Trials Day over the weekend. Later in the show, the chaps focus on the Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival 2023 with a long-view of what the race might hold come March. Sign up to oddschecker’s brand new Cheltenham Super Service in the build up to the f...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Irish racing expert Johnny Ward to preview the jumps schedule on both sides of the Irish Sea. We begin by reflecting on the retirement of jockey Davy Russell who made the announcement following his win on Liberty Dance at Thurles on Sunday. That was his 1,579th and final win of his career spanning 23 years. Happy retirement, Davy! In our Christmas racing p...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Racing Weekly producer and oddschecker's very own Steve Ryder as the chaps brave the cold and some World Cup hangovers to be in the studio. With the lack of recent racing we discussed the recent performances to note and their implications for the Cheltenham festival 2023. We then looked towards a couple of races upcoming this weekend in the hope that racin...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Tanya Stevenson to discuss the weekend just gone as Honeysuckle lost her perfect record at Fairyhouse with Teahupoo winning the Hatton's Grace Hurdle ahead of Klassical Dream. Edwardstone won the Tingle Creek on his much-anticipated reappearance with an emotional Alan King keen to acknowledge the ‘flak’ he received for withdrawing him at Cheltenham an...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are back with the latest episode of Racing Weekly as we preview the weekend racing ahead, headlined by the Tingle Creek. Before that, paddock expert Ken Pitterson joins us in the studio to give us an insight into his work. We talk about how he got into, the most important stages of analysing a horse and we ask if he has an examples or high-profile horses who will come o...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are reunited in the studio as we preview the weekend racing ahead from the Winter Carnival at Newbury. Before that, trainer Donald McCain joins us to discuss a myriad of talking points from the weekend just gone as Constitution Hill and Edwardstone were non-runners at Ascot on Saturday. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365. 18+ Hoste...

Rishi Persad is joined by Gavin Lynch to recap a strong weekend of horse racing from Cheltenham and Naas as Ga Law was a battling winner of the Paddy Power Gold Cup. We also see what Gavin's been up to since leaving Racing Post's Upping The Ante earlier in the year. Sam Turner joins us later in the show to look ahead to meetings at Haydock and Ascot with the Betfair Chase preview (we'll be ca...

Racing Weekly is back for the 2022/23 jumps season!  Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Paul Ferguson, author of Jumpers To Follow & the Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide. In the opening show of series three we look at how the Breeders Cup panned out as Flightline won the race in impressive style as well as a packed weekend full of quality racing from Wincanton, Down Roya...

Rishi and Sam are joined by Hayley Moore for the penultimate Racing Weekly show of the flat season. In this episode we look back at the Mill Reef Stakes where Sakheer starred and the Ayr Gold Cup where Summerghand won the race at the fourth attempt. Danny Tudhope became the first Scottish-born jockey to win the race for 50 years - an incredible stat. We preview the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Newmar...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Rob Hornby for the final Racing Weekly show of the flat season. In this episode we look back at the weekend's Racing with the Cambridgeshire a highlight, as well as the Middle Park Stakes, Cheveley Park Stakes and Rockfel Stakes also providing plenty to debate. We preview the weekend's racing from Longchamp with Rob Hornby joining us us to discuss the big...

On this episode of Racing Weekly Sam Turner and Rishi Persad are joined once again by Johnny Ward to look back at the weekend's action from Haydock and Ascot just gone before looking ahead to the St Leger meeting at Doncaster. Our St Leger Festival preview begins with a look at the St Leger itself with New London the short-priced favourite to give Charlie Appleby and Godolphin back-to-back wi...

Sam Turner and Rishi Persad chew the fat on Racing Weekly as we preview the Haydock Sprint Cup and the Superior Mile Stakes ahead of the decent weekend of horse racing.  Before that, they recap Fairy Cross's win by a length in the Prestige Fillies’ Stakes, Hoo Ya Mal's comfortable victory in the March Stakes and Jadoomi beating stablemate Finest Sound in a good finish at Goodwo...

With a background steeped in equestrianism, Alice Haynes is one of Newmarket’s new ambitious trainers who is rapidly establishing quite a reputation within the ranks. For this week's episode of Racing Weekly we sent Sam Turner to her yard at Cadland Cottage Stables to talk about her burgeoning string, the pressure of running a Newmarket flat stable, her love of Chelsea Football Club and what the f...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are back for the latest episode of Racing Weekly. Throughout this week's show Rishi and Sam are joined by professional punter, horse racing and Wolves fan Nick Goff to tell us about himself and give his view on the week's Racing talking points. The guys start with a look back at the weekend's racing, headlined by the Hungerford Stakes where Jumby won in decisive fashion...

Steve Ryder steps in to host Racing Weekly with Rishi Persad enjoying some time at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The ever-present Sam Turner joins Steve to review the weekend's racing including Little Big Bear's 7 lengths victory in the Phoenix Stakes and Go Bears Go's win in the Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes for David Loughnane and Rossa Ryan. We have one eye on the York Ebor Festival in...