Racing Weekly

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder are back for the road to the Cheltenham Festival as Racing Weekly begins its countdown to March. In today's packed show we welcome retired jockey Bryan Cooper to the studio as preview the Dublin Racing Festival with some mouth-watering action to look forward to seeing Marine Nationale, State Man, El Fabiolo and Galopin Des Champs. First up though we look back on the we...

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder welcome another Racing Weekly debutant to the show as Ella McNeill joins us in the studio. Ella has been involved in horse racing for her whole life and currently works as the Chelsea Thoroughbreds National Hunt Racing Manager. In today's packed show we'll preview all of the Christmas racing from Kempton Park, Chepstow and Leopardstown including a King George VI Chase...

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder welcome debutant Dan Overall to the studio to preview Cheltenham’s December meeting this weekend. Dan won RacingTV's Tipstar competition in 2022 and has gone from strength to strength in the racing industry including working with oddschecker in recent times. First up we recap the racing just gone with a good win for Stay Away Fay in the Esher Novices’ Chase. He's now 5...

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder welcome ITV Racing commentator Richard Hoiles to preview the Tingle Creek Festival from Sandown. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker, in association with bet365. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder are joined by Tanya Stevenson to preview the Winter Carnival from Newbury. Before that though we recap the latest racing from Haydock as Royal Pagaille won the Betfair Chase with Venetia Williams continuing the fantastic stable form becoming the first female trainer to win the race. Over in Punchestown we discuss State Man who justified his price of 1/6 to win it for t...

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder welcome Johnny Ward to the Racing Weekly stable to review the horse racing action from the past week before looking ahead to the action this weekend. First up we focus on the Cheltenham November Meeting with Homme Public capitalising on the fall of JPR One to win the Arkle Trial and Minella Missile defied odds of 22/1 to beat Captain Teague with The Big Doyen back in 3...

Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder welcome Gavin Lynch to the oddschecker studio to preview the Cheltenham November Meeting with one eye on Cheltenham 2024 and any ante-post angles we can find.   First up the panel discuss the Grand Sefton Handicap Chase as Gesskille went one better than last year's 2nd place as tipped up by Steve Ryder AKA Robin Goodfellow in last week's show. There was...

Join Rishi Persad and Steve Ryder for a fifth series of Racing Weekly, in association with bet365. In the first episode of the 2023/24 jumps season, we're accompanied by Paul Ferguson, author of the Weatherby's Jumpers To Follow guide, your essential guide to the National Hunt season. The show takes its usual shape with a recap of the latest racing from the bet365 Charlie Hall Chase as Gentlemansg...

In our final show of the series, Steve Ryder welcomes Sam Turner and Ken Pitterson to the studio to review the Sprint Cup at Haydock and Irish Champions Weekend with Bay Bridge, Auguste Rodin and Tahiyra among the winners. Later on we look ahead to the Doncaster card this weekend with the highlight being the St Leger on Saturday. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with b...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are reunited to review some of the recent racing at York and the weekend just gone. We then look ahead to the Haydock Sprint Cup with eyes on Shaquille who goes up against Kinross, Spycatcher and Lezoo. We also touch on the Irish Champions Weekend held at Leopardstown as the Irish Champion Stakes takes the shape of King Of Steel vs Auguste Rodin PART THREE! Racing Weekl...

Tanya Stevenson steps in for Rishi Persad and welcomes Sam Turner and Ken Pitterson to the stable to preview the Ebor Festival 2023 from York Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Ryder welcomes Sam Turner and Steve Mellish to the Racing Weekly studio to review the racing at the weekend as Inspiral bounced back to form to win the Prix Jacques Le Marois Group 1 for a second year in a row. We begin though with Al Aasy who was given a peach of a ride by Jim Crowley to beat El Drama by a neck in the Rose Of Lancaster Stakes at Newmarket. We also look back at the action fr...

Steve Ryder is back in the host's chair for Rishi Persad as we welcome fans favourite Johnny Ward and Sam Turner to the show to preview Glorious Goodwood 2023, now known as the Qatar Goodwood Festival. Before that though we look back on Ascot as Hukum got up to beat Westover by a nose in a wonderful King George race. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365 Hosted...

Rishi Persad welcomes Ken Pitterson and Steve Ryder to the show to preview the King George Weekend as Ascot. Before that though, we start by talking about Savethelastdance as she won a 7th Irish Oaks for Aidan O'Brien after Ryan Moore galvanised the filly to produce a dramatic late burst. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Rishi Persad welcomes Sam Turner and BBC 5 Live racing commentator John Hunt to the studio to discuss a wonderful weekend of horse racing from Newmarket at the July Festival. Later we very briefly preview the weekend racing with the classic quality vs. quantity debate re-emerging its head. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

With Rishi at Wimbledon, Steve Ryder stands in alongside Sam Turner and Richard Hoiles as we review the Irish Derby from the Curragh. We then preview Sandown at the weekend with the Coral-Eclipse as favourite Emily Upjohn seeks her third straight Group 1 win. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi and Sam review an exhilarating week of horse racing at Royal Ascot.    In a week that saw Aidan O'Brien go clear as the most successful trainer of all time at the meeting, we look back at was a tricky week for punters but not short of storyline and grandeur.   Within the show we speak to jockey Rossa Ryan who won the Royal Hunt Cup on Jimi Hendrix on Wednesday and the Norfolk...

Steve Ryder and Sam Turner welcome back Ken Pitterson to the Racing Weekly paddock as we preview Royal Ascot 2023. We begin with the Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday with the King's Stand Stakes and the St James's Palace Stakes up next. Later on Ken and Sam give us their NAPs of the meeting, plus three tips to follow each. Ahead of Royal Ascot, bet365 have launched their brand new free-to-play game: 6...

Rishi Persad and Sam Turner are joined by Tanya Stevenson for another episode of Racing Weekly. On today's show we take a long view of Royal Ascot 2023 which is now firmly on punters' agenda. We also speak to Oliver Sherwood who brought an end to his training career after nearly 40 years as he joins young handler Harry Derham as assistant trainer for the National Hunt 2023/24 season. Racing Weekly...

Steve Ryder steps in for Rishi Persad to host our Derby review alongside regular Sam Turner. First up the duo discuss Auguste Rodin's strong display in the Epsom Derby and Soul Sister's last-to-first dash under Frankie Dettori in the Oaks. Later on we're joined by trainer Ralph Beckett for an interview as we gather his thoughts on Westover's performance in the Coronation Cup and Artistic Star's ou...

Rishi and Sam are joined by Steve Mellish ahead of the Epsom Derby 2023. The trio preview the Oaks and the Derby as well as looking across the card for anything that stands out as value. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rish and Sam invite Johnny Ward back to the studio to breakdown the past week's racing from the Dante Festival. We then turn our attention across the Irish Sea as the Irish Guineas Festival takes centre stage from the Curragh. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rishi and Sam are back for the flat season as we look back at the Chester May Festival before previewing the Dante Festival at York. First on the agenda we discuss Savethelastdance who was a mightily impressive 22 length winner in the Cheshire Oaks under Ryan Moore and is now 6/4 favourite with bet365 for the Oaks at Epsom. Racing Weekly is brought to you by oddschecker in association with bet365....

Rishi is back in the host's chair alongside Sam Turner and our guest Jane Mangan as we preview the last big meeting of the jumps season, the Punchestown Festival from across the water. First up though, we review the Scottish Grand National as Kitty's Light went one better than 2022, landing the prize for Christian Williams who made it back to back successes in the race following Win My Wings' triu...

Host Steve Ryder steps in for Rishi Persad as he guides Sam Turner and Kate Tracey through a review of the Grand National Festival 2023. They discuss the fall out from a memorable year as triumph and tragedy battle for the headlines with protest marring the feature race. The much-fancied favourite Corach Rambler stormed home with Derek Fox on board in a terrific race that was littered with moments...