Flared Nostril Horse Racing blog from the Westmorland Gazette

Flared Nostril - Get Tiddly in sun at Cartmel's summer feast

10:17am Thursday 14th July 2011

THE TIDDLY Tadpole looks a fair prospect for a winner at Cartmel's meeting today (Thursday).

Flared Nostril - Best barbie competition at Cartmel's Thursday meeting

10:16am Thursday 7th July 2011

THIS year’s Barbecue Race Day at Cartmel next Thursday wil feature a new competition. Cartmel is offering a special prize for the most stylish barbecue or picnic on course.

Flared Nostril - Spark up your 'Barbys' for Cartmel prize

3:08pm Thursday 30th June 2011

IT'S ONE of the most popular days in Cartmel’s racing calendar and this year Barbecue Race day will be even more memorable.

Flared Nostril - Diescentric to give Cecil a flying start

9:16am Wednesday 11th May 2011

IT'S the first day of York's Mecca Dante meeting and I'm in a quandry.

Flared Nostril - Jacko tribute act to get Cartmel bopping

1:28pm Monday 9th May 2011

LEADING Michael Jackson tribute performer Navi will be the headline act as Cartmel’s 2011 season opens with a feast of pre-racing entertainment for the many fans flocking to the evening meeting on Saturday, May 28.

Flared Nostril - Hurricane can go down a storm at Lingfield

10:40am Saturday 7th May 2011

ON a visit to Middleham on Good Friday, Flared Nostril had a tour of Mark Johnston's stables - what a spot of horse heaven for the racing enthusiast.

Flared Nostril - Go in Zain after savouring Frankel show

9:41am Saturday 30th April 2011

IT'S 2,000 Guineas day at Newmarket and Frankel is "expected" to carry all before him in the first Classic but he is not a backable proposition at long odds-on.

Racing - Outstanding Flat annual from Mark Howard

10:55am Thursday 28th April 2011

KIRKBY Lonsdale racing expert Mark Howard comes up with another fascinating offering with his new publication 'Ahead on the Flat 2010'(£7.99).

Flared Nostril - Shanballa can shake up Cartmel hotpot

10:19am Saturday 29th August 2009

LOOKING for a value bet at Cartmel today (Saturday) will pose racegoers be a real Bank Holiday puzzler as there are several strong favourites on the card as well as the presence of top jockey A. P. McCoy.

Flared Nostril - Hafawa's profile fits bill at Ripon

9:54am Saturday 15th August 2009

YORK's Ebor meeting which starts next Tuesday looms over today's racing, and it is worth looking out for nice types who are bypassing the big prizes next week for less exacting tasks.

Racing - Rosy outlook for Duncan at Haydock

10:17pm Friday 7th August 2009

THE North/South divide is never better shown than by tomorrow. While south of the Trent most attention will be on Ascot which stages The Shergar Cup, in which a host of international jockeys do battle, northerners are looking to Hadyock Park.

Flared Nostril - Make it a Man's world on Ladies Night

10:38am Monday 3rd August 2009

IT'S LADIES Night at Carlisle Races tonight (Monday) but it can be a man's world when LAKEMAN is fancied to go well in the £10,000 Edinburgh Woollen Mill Handicap, the showpiece race on the card.

Racing - Nostrings can pull off a Scoop interest

10:49am Saturday 18th July 2009

THE TOTESCOOP 6 is a big pot today and I'll be having a crack at it. Going through the form for the races, it's hard not to think Jono O'Neill has the answer to the final race in NOSTRINGSATTACHED.

Lashes worth a Royal flutter

9:45am Wednesday 17th June 2009

RARELY are top-class fillies kept in training after proving themselves so we shoudl be grateful LUSH LASHES is still on the scene and runnng at Royal Ascot today (Tuesday).

Racing - Force can be with us in Hennessy

10:33am Saturday 29th November 2008

AIR FORCE ONE looks set to give Lambourn trainer Charlie Mann a big-race winner in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury today (Saturday).

Racing - Cartmel's Festival feeling

10:03pm Sunday 24th August 2008

THERE will be a festival atmosphere at Cartmel Races' Bank Holiday Monday meeting and FESTIVAL KING (n.b.) is chosen to give top jockey Timmy Murphy a winner at the Cumbrian track in the Cengiz (Gus) Sadik Memorial Handicap Chase (4.05), writes Flared Nostril.

Racing - Apostle can sprout wings

12:03pm Saturday 23rd August 2008

KING'S APOSTLE has been waiting in the wings for a suitable opening since was looked an unlucky loser in the Stewards Cup and a Newmarket Listed Race today does not look beyond him.

Fleeting to show clean heels

8:48am Tuesday 17th June 2008

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Dun and dusted in the Guineas!

10:17am Saturday 3rd May 2008

<p>A CRACKING race looks in prospect for today's 2,000 Guineas and IBN KHALDUN is selected to floor the favourite, Jim Bolger's New Approach.</p>

Spencer is Chief pointer

11:26am Saturday 12th April 2008

<p>A CLUTCH of horses that were trained specifically for the Lincoln meeting at Doncaster last month are out again and the most of the talking is about DON'T PANIC, who sensationally hacked up on the Town Moor mile.</p>

It's simple - it's Simon

9:42am Saturday 5th April 2008

<p>EVERYONE wants to be on the John Smith's Grand National winner and there's no doubt the majority of punters will fancy favourite Cloudy Lane to show Donald McCain is a chip off the old block.</p>

Soapy to wring them out to dry

9:50am Saturday 29th March 2008

<p>MARK Johnston's powerful Middleham string looks set to snap into action and SOAPY DANGER can clean up in Doncaster's Shield Conditions Stakes at 3.35.</p>

All Yea is the Lincoln news

11:50pm Friday 21st March 2008

YEAMAN'S Hall is fancied to land the William Hill Lincoln when the race returns to Doncaster tomorrow after it was switched to Newcastle last year while refurbishment work went ahead.

Tricky, but Magic is special

8:25am Thursday 13th March 2008

<p>ON a spectacular 10-race card at Cheltenham today, there isn't time to weigh up all the pros and cons, so gut instinct has to play a part in selections and TWIST MAGIC gets a chance to prove himself out of the top drawer in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.</p>