The Talking Horses Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We're back for part 2 of our Aintree Grand National meeting preview, diving in to each of the 7 races on the Saturday card including 3/1 and 12/2 naps! Enjoy. Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE .

Send us Fan Mail Can it have been 4 weeks since Cheltenham!  Time has flown but the extra week vs the usual 3 between Festivals has certainly letf us feeling fresh and ready to go.  Perhaps horses that ran at Cheltenham will feel the same. Here we get stuck in to every race across the first two days of the meeting with a dual nap for the Friday at 9/1! Enjoy. Ben & Bruno Please rate and review...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Folks - Ben & Bruno are back with you after a lovely little Cheltenham hiatus.  What a wonderful and, crucially, profitable week it was and hopefully you followed us in antepost on the likes of Jango Baie and Air of Entitlement. Now that the Festival dust has settled on Gloucestershire, it's time to look a bit further north as we prepare for Aintree's Grand Nat...

Send us Fan Mail Well can you adam and eve it, the 2026 Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us!  As excitement reaches it's peak, we dig into each of the 5 championship races as well as share a best bet each for each of the four days. Thank you for listening along with us this season and specifically with these antepost angle episodes.  We've had a great time recording them and really hop...

Send us Fan Mail After a good few of our handicap chase selections have shortened significantly over the last few days, we're back with a deep dive into each of the 5 handicap hurdles.  We look at the ideal profiles for each race and create some nice tight shortlists for with suggestions of whether there's antepost value or if it's a case of bet on the day.  Patience and self-contro...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday marked the official entry stage for the 2026 Cheltenham Festival Handicaps and so this week we have dedicated all our efforts to trawling through all 7 handicap chases (and 268 associated entries!) to create shortlists for each race, including some useful trends that can help bring a shortlist into sharper focus.  We also discuss which horses to back now and which may...

Send us Fan Mail We're back after a week's post-DRF recuperation and looking ahead to a good Saturday card at Ascot, where frankly the Grade 1 Ascot Chase and Jonbon's latest bid to finish either 1st or 2nd is the least of our punting worries.  We find a pair of tasty naps in the handicaps and highlight a well bred bumper runner that's very familiar to those of us that can thin...

Send us Fan Mail All 15 DRF races covered for your listening and punting pleasure.  Let's just hope they pass the inspection on Saturday morning! We have some strong fancies, particulalry in the Spring Juvenile, the 2m handicap chase and the Irish Gold Cup itself for the Saturday.  Then on Sunday we're confident we've found the winner of the mares handicap hurdle, just as we did on...

Send us Fan Mail Well there's little doubt this is one of the best Cheltenham Trials Days in recent memory and SURELY we will have at least one Festival winner on show tomorrow, if not more.   We get stuck in to 8 races, including one which is one of the best pointers to Festival success of any race, anywhere in recent history! What a day to look forward to. Enjoy! Ben & Bruno Please rate...

Send us Fan Mail Hello again Antepost fiends! We're back for our second of this season's Antepost Angle series and this time we're completing the novice hurdle set with the Mares Novices Hurdle and the Triumph Hurdle, along with the Champion Bumper too (which surprisingly yielded a strong antepost fancy). The mares race has not been one for favourites (nor are we convinced this year...

Send us Fan Mail It's the end of the working week and spirits are in the sky, as are hopes of a cracking mid-January weekend of jumps racing from Ascot and Windsor.  This week we're focusing on Ascot's Clarence House Chase meeting card, including some excellent racing away from the flagship Grade 1. We pick out a couple of strong fancies in the handicaps and Mr AI himself is back fr...

Send us Fan Mail Hello there racing fans. We're excited to bring back our heralded and successful Cheltenham Festival Antepost Angle series with the first episode of this season looking ahead to the Supreme, Turners and Albert Bartlett Novices hurdles. We start with the 2 miler and work our way up, as we think that trainers do when they have a good novice! There's no getting away from it...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year THP-ers! Wer'e back after the break and ready to get stuck in to Warwick's Classic Chase card this Saturday which, with a bit of luck, looks as though it will GO AHEAD after a week of weather watch. What it lacks a bit in quality it certainly makes up for in the punting value to be had and we help you find a few for your shortlist, including a 26/1 double!...

Send us Fan Mail Yes, we understand that 86 minutes is probably too long for a podcast.  However, this episode doesn't just skim the surface.  We get deep into the detail of each of the Grade 1s across both Boxing/St Stephen's Day and the 27th December with the Welsh Grand National thrown in for good measure.  8 races.  Expert analysis.  Seeing the wood for the trees, the objective. We h...

Send us Fan Mail After a couple of weeks off we're refreshed and excited to be back to get stuck into a great card at Ascot for their Christmas meeting, including the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle and some cracking handicaps. Let's see if we can boost the Christmas coffers, as the old cliche goes! Enjoy, Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Fo...

Send us Fan Mail It's Coral Gold Cup weekend and we're back to scour the Newbury Saturday card, including a look at what is arguably the race of the season so far, The Fighting Fifth at Newcastle with Constitution Hill vs The New Lion! Enjoy, Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE .

Send us Fan Mail What a Saturday of racing we have in store this week and, given we're actually going to Ascot on Saturday, we reserve this podcast's focus for the 7 races from the Berkshire track, including a cracking renewal of the 1965 Chase and Ascot Hurdle. Enjoy! Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on...

Send us Fan Mail After picking a couple of winners on Day 1, we're back to preview the second and third days of the meeting, including the Paddy Power Gold Cup and the Greatwood Hurdle. Enjoy! Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE .

Send us Fan Mail We're back and this week it's the Cheltenham November meeting, arguably the meeting that really marks the injection of the cream of the horse crop into the National Hunt season.  In this episode, Bruno, Andy and I preview an exciting Friday card with *spoiler alert* the fabled Ben & Bruno DOUBLE NAP, while Andy loses his mind putting up one in the Shloer.  We worry a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello there pod fans and welcome to BADGER BEERS weekend at Wincanton, the site of one of our favourite race day experiences ever and a weekend we have a serious soft spot for.  Maybe 'cos you're properly into November and it really feels like National Hunt season.  Either way it's a great meeting and we have both that and Aintree's Grand Sefton meeting to look...

Send us Fan Mail After a monumental performance at HQ last weekend (if I do say so myself), we're back to look ahead to a cracking Saturday of action at Ascot and Wetherby this weekend, including the reapperance of some of the premier names in the sport that it's great to see out so early! Mr AI himself Andrew Inkling joins us again as he bids to maintain his 100% strike rate on the show...

Send us Fan Mail It's that time of year again, at last!  It's the return of jumps racing at National Hunt HQ.  Happy days. And what a two days we have in store.  Big fields, old favourites and horses we've heard about all summer that we're finally going to get to see in the flesh.  And all on ground that should hopefully be perfect and mean very few non runners.  What more coul...

Send us Fan Mail Well let's be fair it's a slightly fallow weekend of National Hunt racing after the buzz of Chepstow last weekend (and what a punting start we had!) and before the first Cheltenham meeting of the season next weekend.  So we've decided to have a bit of fun this week because it is, of course, The Munster Nash! We look ahead to Sunday's card at Kempton before pick...

Send us Fan Mail We're back!  Refreshed and rejuvenated after a cracking summer, we're ready to get stuck right back into a new season of National Hunt racing with you. In this first episode of season FIVE (jeeze, how did we get here?), we pick out 3 horses each to follow for the season ahead.  Could a forgotten Grade 1 winning second season novice chaser find his way back to the top?  C...

Send us Fan Mail Hopefully some of you got on Irancy at a massive price on Tuesday!  What a start to the week that was.  We hit the post a couple of times after that but have some good fancies for the final three days of the Punchestown Festival to hopefully finish the National Hunt season on a high. Enjoy! Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter...