Flared Nostril Horse Racing blog from the Westmorland Gazette

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

'Sizing' up for Cheltenham

6:25pm Tuesday 11th March 2008

<p>CHELTENHAM arrives at last for the fans of National Hunt racing and the Tuesday meeting showcases the top all-age hurdlers in the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle.</p>

Day One - Katchit if you can!

6:25pm Tuesday 11th March 2008

NOTHING changes at Cheltenham - the meeting's ability to defy the formbook but confirm rising reputations at the same time continues to amaze.

Garden to slug it out....

10:14am Saturday 8th December 2007

DON'T get caught up in the Voy Per Ustedes short-priced bandwagon for Sandown's Tingle Creek Chase (2.35).

Ten up for Nostril fans

6:03pm Tuesday 20th November 2007

My Ten to Follow for the National Hunt season.

Kauto aimed at Haydock.....

2:56pm Monday 12th November 2007

HERE'S a news release about action coming up at Haydock Park..which which I'm posting ahead of my preview of the National Hunt jumps season.

Ridge to have Post edge

11:15am Saturday 27th October 2007

<p>THE Breeders Cup meeting in the US is something a bit different with million-dollar races by the fistful. Torrential rain at Monmouth, New Jersey for Friday's card did not help the spectacle but Achill Sound's good second was a timely pointer to today's big Racing Post Trophy race at Doncaster (3.40).</p>

Catch the Pigeon......

11:09am Saturday 29th September 2007

<p>THE JUMPS season starts in earnest with a fine card at Market Rasen and in these early skirmishes it may be to stick with the already battle-hardened PIGEON ISLAND .</p>

Locarno can dance past Leger rivals

10:37am Saturday 15th September 2007

<p>THE ST Leger at Doncaster today (Saturday) looks a terrific race and Aidan O'Brien's Honolulu is the likely favourite, given that Johnny Murtagh rides this one out of four raiders from the top Irish yard.</p>

Oasis Wind can blow in at Donny

9:08am Wednesday 12th September 2007

SUMMER holidays are over at the Flared Nostril and with a distinct autumnal feeling in the air, it's time to get down to some serious picking.

Galactic start to York

4:33pm Monday 20th August 2007

SUMMER has come and gone but there is still time to raise a glass of summer wine to York's three-day Ebor meeting, when the north hosts the cream of this year's crop.

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