L’Homme Presse will not run in the Randox Grand National at Aintree. Venetia Williams’ star chaser had to miss the Cheltenham Gold Cup following a small setback and connections have now conceded defeat in the race to get ready for the National on Saturday week. Andy Edwards, who owns the 10-year-old alongside Pam Sharman, Ray […] The post L’Homme Presse ruled out of Grand National bid first appeared on geegeez.co.uk.

Fiona Needham reports Cheltenham Festival hunters’ chase heroine Sine Nomine none the worse for her fall at Wetherby on Boxing Day. The nine-year-old was plugging on gamely and in with a chance of being placed behind Some Scope in the Rowland Meyrick…

Saturday’s Sandown fixture is subject to a precautionary inspection on raceday morning as the cold snap continues to bite in Britain. Friday’s Musselburgh card was called off less than 10 minutes before the first race due to a frozen track, while…

Ballyburn could have his next start over fences in England, with Willie Mullins bemoaning the decision to remove the Grade One novice chase over an extended two miles at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting. Won last year by the Gordon Elliott-trained Found A…