Horse Racing

LOCAL trainers Dan Skelton and Olly Murphy will be anxiously checking the weather forecast ahead of Warwick’s two-day Winter Festival.

THE Stan Mellor Memorial Beginners Chase and the annual Richard Davis Awards combined to make a celebration of jockeys past and present.

THE finalists for the 2024 JETS Richard Davis Awards, named in memory of the jockey who suffered a fatal race fall in 1996, have been announced.

RACING returns to Warwick next week as the momentum builds towards a packed winter programme, starting with Stan Mellor Chase Day on Tuesday (5th).

GUARD Your Dreams and Guard The Moon completed a Warwick feature race double for Cotswold trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies and his jockey son Sam.

WARWICK stages the second meeting of its new season today (Thursday) on going described as good to soft, good in places earlier in the week.

RACING returned to Warwick on Tuesday and it was very much business as usual for Alcester-based Dan and Harry Skelton who landed a double.

WARWICK’S much-interrupted 2023-24 season comes to an end this evening (Thursday) with a six-race card that gets under way at 6.10pm.

Dan and Harry Skelton were in treble-winning form in front of another big crowd at Warwick’s Ladies Night on Saturday.

THE first of Warwick racecourse’s four meetings in May saw a big crowd flock to the always-popular Family Fun Day.

AFTER the loss of its Easter meeting, Warwick will be hoping for good weather and a big crowd for today’s (Thursday) annual Molly Ollys Race Day.

THE £50,000 Wigely Group Challenger Staying Chase Series Final is the highlight of today’s (Thursday) Easter race meeting at Warwick.

IT was Four-Legged Friend Day at Warwick on Sunday and, out on the track, 12/1 shot Well Dick, ridden by Lilly Pinchin, landed the feature race.

TRAINERS Olly Murphy and Dan Skelton will be hoping for success at the four-day Cheltenham Festival which starts on Tuesday (March 12).

It’s Fiver Friday at Warwick tomorrow (Friday) and one of the most popular race meetings of the season boats two races with a prize fund of £20,000.

TV cameras return to Warwick on Saturday when the course stages its most prestigious race of the season, the Grade 2 JCB Kingmaker Novices’ Chase.

TRAINER Nigel Twiston-Davies and his jockey son Sam were the combination in form at a blustery Warwick when they landed a double.

RACING returned to Warwick for the first time since November on Saturday and racegoers were treated to a thrilling finish in the main event.

IT will be Warwick’s richest raceday of the year on Saturday when the £100,000 Wigley Group Classic Chase is the highlight of an eight-race card.

TRAINER Olly Murphy has high hopes for Butch after his latest success in the Paddy Power Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day.