The Midas Touches

The 2025 Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us, bringing four days of top-tier National Hunt racing to one of the most beautiful sites in professional sport, Prestbury Park. Get your race analysis and best bets for every race of the festival right here. Day 1 – from 00:00 The festival opens with arguably the highest quality day of the week, including the Champion Hurdle where Constitution Hill wil...

Boxing Day Preview Special Join Tris and Charlie this festive season to preview the action from across the cards at Kempton, Aintree, Wetherby, and Leopardstown this Boxing Day.  The lads discuss the return of Constitution Hill, who wins the King George, which horse is coming under the radar for the Formby, and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode - please be sure to subscribe and share. Merr...

We are back!!! After 5 months out of the saddle, we're here to preview a bumper weekend of 2yo racing including the Group 1 Fillies Mile and the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket. We really couldn't be more excited to be back - with a new podcasting location in the heart of London, a rejuvenated mindset and a light tan after a trip to Bali (Charlie did), we're ready to take down whatever this S...

Happy Christmas everyone!   Yes, it’s that time of year again. Guineas weekend is finally here and we cannot be more excited to watch the action unfold.    Join us this week to preview the first two Classics of the flat season as City Of Troy looks to defend his unbeaten record and prove that he retains the significant talent he showed as a 2yo.   Don’t worry if you don’t like short-priced favouri...

Move over jumps racing; the flat season is officially here. Join us this week as Tris & Charlie look ahead to the 2024 flat racing season. We’ll cover all the key contenders from the Classic generation - including a 40/1 poke at the Guineas - plus the biggest talking points across the divisions among the older horses. The episode also kicks off with selections for the Craven Meeting which take...

Welcome back to part 2 of The Midas Touches’ Big Cheltenham Preview. In this episode, Tris & Charlie take on Thursday & Friday of the Festival, including the big one of the whole week; the Cheltenham Gold Cup.   Yet again, we’ve been value hunting and are not afraid to take on the big favourites from days 3 & 4, so you can find a few big-priced tips in this episode.    So whether you’r...

Hellooooo & welcome to The Midas Touches’ Big Cheltenham Preview. Join us for this two-part series covering all four days of the Cheltenham Festival, the marquee event of the National Hunt calendar.  In this episode, Tris & Charlie look ahead to Tuesday & Wednesday of the Festival, covering all the Grade 1 action as well as a couple of the other big races on the card. As long-time list...

New year, new house, same podcast… as the old saying goes; if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it 😉   It’s been a while since we last recorded but, going into 2024, we have just one resolution at The Midas Touches; no losers.   Therefore, join Tris & Charlie for the first podcast of the year to see how long they can keep that resolution as the lads preview Cheltenham Trials day which includes the re...

Boxing Day Sporting Bonanza feat. King George, Kauto Star, Rowland Meyrick, and Christmas We’re nearly there… just two more sleeps until Boxing Day! That’s right, it doesn’t matter if you’ve been naughty or nice this year, Boxing Day brings the highest quality horse racing for all to enjoy and a present from your favourite racing podcast… The Midas Touches are hoping to spread the Christmas cheer...

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Cheltenham in November is the first chance to have a look at some potential contenders for the Festival - it’s three days of action that comes thick and fast, so let the lads run you through the ones to watch and those not to watch.   The podcast has had some big success on this weekend in the past, so the track record is there. Confidence levels are similarly high this year - Charlie rarely misse...

Welcome back to another episode of The Midas Touches - after a long summer of action on the flat, the jumps season is back in full force and we know you guys are as excited as we are…   No doubt, it can be difficult to get back into the swing of things after such a long hiatus, so we’ve made it easy for you here at The Midas Touches - this episode is your one-stop-shop to all the key talking point...

Hellooooo, and welcome back…   Yep, sounds right, doesn’t it?   It’s official, The Midas Touches podcast is back.   After weeks of honing our tipping skills, we are finally back with three certified NAPs for you guys (genuinely, these things cannot lose), covering races from Curragh, Ayr, and Newbury.   It definitely feels good to be back on the scene. Now let’s hope normal service can be resumed,...

So, the team are back to basics with this one - no video recording, no clips, just good, old-fashioned form analysis to provide you with the best tips for the weekend.   Yes, a few hit crossbars again last week meant it was another frustrating time for Tris & Charlie but, as the old saying goes; form is temporary, class is permanent.    With that in mind, the lads look ahead to the July Cup Fe...

After a two-week break which included a Midas Touches team trip to Glastonbury, the lads are back with a vengeance and ready to right the wrongs of a mixed week at Royal Ascot… With plenty to get their teeth stuck into on return, Tris & Charlie preview the top-class action this weekend from Haydock and Sandown, where the boys are happy to take on the short-priced favourite in the big one, the...

Day 1 - 4:20 Day 2 - 25:00 Day 3 - 39:10 Day 4 - 56:10 Day 5 - 1:13:20    One of the biggest events in the horse racing calendar is finally upon us…  With Royal Ascot just around the corner, Tris and Charlie have trawled through all the biggest races from the 5 days to try and find the value for you guys.  This is THE episode to listen to if you want the download on all the action across the meeti...

Welcome back to another week of The Midas Touches. In horse racing terms, it does not get much bigger than this weekend as Epsom is gearing up to host the Derby for yet another year.  That’s right, the 3rd and 4th English Classics of the season are on this weekend and, with Tris and Charlie having picked the winner for the last English Classic at 16/1, history suggests they might have something up...

Fresh off the back of a monumental Guineas Festival, the lads are back again to tackle some top-class flat racing.  With winners at 8/1 and 16/1 on Guineas weekend, Tris & Charlie could hardly be in better form coming into this weekend and, for those that follow The Midas Touches Twitter account, that has not been going badly either.  Saturday sees Group 1 action from Newbury in the form of the Al...

It goes without saying that we can barely contain our excitement here at The Midas Touches as Guineas weekend fast approaches…   That’s right, the first English Classics of the season are officially upon us and we now only have three more sleeps to wait (that’s if you are even able to sleep…). Yes, King Charles is not the only one who is being crowned this weekend… we will also see (perhaps more i...

The jumps may be well and truly done but that won’t stop the boys talking about the topic that is dominating racing at this moment which is, of course, the animal rights protests at Aintree for the Grand National - safe to say, Tris & Charlie have passionate views on the subject.   Away from the big talking points (and there are many), there is some stellar action from Newbury as we ramp up to the...

Charlie thought he had managed to escape the jumps for another season… but, as you will see this week, how wrong he was!   This latest episode for you covers the most watched and biggest betting race of the year in the Grand National at Aintree. Traditionally a fiendishly difficult handicap puzzle to solve, the lads have got stuck into the analysis and have a few darts to throw which, inevitably,...

The moment you have all been waiting for… after a long hiatus following the Cheltenham Festival Preview night, the lads have reset, regained energy, and regrouped ahead of what promises to be a MASSIVE season of racing on the flat. 😍   And so, for this next episode of The Midas Touches, we are giving listeners the horses to follow for the 2023 flat season, where the lads, along with horse racing...

Fans - you spoke and we listened…  There have been A LOT of requests coming in for us to release the recording from our much-anticipated Cheltenham Preview live event so here goes - if you’re in search of the hottest tips and takes ahead of the Cheltenham Festival next week then look no further.  Thursday evening The Midas Touches hosted Jess Stafford, George Daly, and a bunch of punting degens to...

EPISODE 46:   Guests are officially back on The Midas Touches podcast and, as you know, we do not do things in half measures, so back with a bang it is.   This week the lads welcome on the show Josh Stacey (aka The Racing Josh), one of the up-and-coming stars of the broadcasting racing world, to hopefully shed some light on this weekend’s racing action.   Not only that, but Josh is known as a bit...

Tris has called this “one of his favourite weekends of the year…” and if he is referring to the 7pm at Wolves on Saturday, then Charlie is in absolute agreement as he thinks he has found one in that race 👀   Either way, the lads can’t exactly complain of a lack of racing. There are Grade 2s at both Newbury and Warwick as well as the Betfair Hurdle and that’s all on top of the aforementioned Class...