Top billing on Punchestown Festival 2025 day 4 goes to the track’s Champion Hurdle. On Friday, 2 May, we’ll see a rematch between Constitution Hill and State Man, who both fell in the Cheltenham equivalent won by Golden Ace. Because of these two big guns of hurdling taking tumbles, a pretty large asterisk sits next …

Early May means the Guineas Festival at Newmarket races begins with the three-day fixture starting on Friday. Headquarters has the Grade 2 Jockey Club Stakes acting as its feature contest on the opening day. Supporting that on the Rowley Mile are a couple of Listed races in the King Charles II and Newmarket Stakes, plus …

The Champion Stayers Hurdle headlines the Punchestown Festival 2025 day 3 card with Teahupoo out to retain his crown from 12 months ago. It’s another absorbing card on Thursday, 1 May in Ireland as the end of jumps season extravaganza continues. Elsewhere on the card, the Barberstown Castle Novice Chase is the other Grade 1 …

Although only four runners contest the Gold Cup on Punchestown Festival 2025 day 2, the feature steeplechase promises to be a cracker. As the third of three more Grade 1s on Wednesday, 30 April, another absorbing card of Irish jumps action is in store. Supporting races include the Irish Champion Bumper and a long-distance Champion …

The Punchestown Festival 2025 day 1 card has an epic battle between Cheltenham winners Fact To File and Marine Nationale headlining it in the extended 2m Champion Chase, the third of three Grade 1s on Tuesday, 29 April. It starts hot with a Champion Novice Hurdle and Novice Chase acting as chief supporting races. Willie …

Sometimes, the Sandown Jump Finale is a coronation for the British champion trainer. Not in 2025, however, as Willie Mullins and Dan Skelton go at it hammer and tongs for the title. The Esher venue brings the curtain down on another National Hunt season this Saturday, 26 April. Highlights from this card include the Grade …

The Flat returns to Sandown races on Friday, 25 April as the Esher venue hosts the first of two very different card. Billed in the past as the Ultimate Celebration of horse racing, the action on the level comes before the Jump Finale the following day. A Group 2 in the bet365 Mile and two …

Fairyhouse races don’t come any bigger than the Irish Grand National of 2025 on the final day of the track’s Easter Festival on Monday, 21 April. The Emerald Isle’s equivalent of the Aintree and Ayr showpieces we’ve seen in recent weeks is as late as it can be. Traditionally a three-day meeting, this year’s Easter …

The Spring Classic Trials get underway at Newbury races on Saturday, 12 April with the Fred Darling and Greenham Stakes. It’s fair to say they have been easier to assess in terms of contenders down the years. As with any prep race for a major target, much of thinking punters must do is who needs …

The Western Meeting apart, Ayr races doesn’t have a more important fixture than its two-day Scottish Grand National Festival. After a rather humble opening on Friday, the action goes up several games on Saturday, 12 April. A race as important as the Scottish Grand National of 2025 is worth detailed analysis on its own. You …