Racing suspended due to coronavirus pandemic
Jockey Sean Quinlan left pondering over September wedding Cash-strapped jockeys’ worries By Andrew Atkinson Horseracing has been suspended – due to the coronavirus pandemic – following a move by the BHA to shutdown until May, at the earliest. It is deemed jockeys will be hit hard – as will thousands of other professionals in the […]
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Cheltenham Festival – lucky to go ahead in wake of coronavirus
By Andrew Atkinson Cheltenham Festival 2020 can look back on being lucky to escape cancellation – or taking place without the 251,000 spectators who attended the four days meeting last week – after the coronavirus outbreak. Four days after the final day of the Cheltenham Festival on March 13 it was announced horseracing in Britain […]
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Aintree Grand National cancelled due to coronavirus
Aintree Grand National cancelled due to coronavirus
By Andrew Atkinson The £1m Randox Health Aintree Grand National, scheduled for April 4, has been cancelled, due to the coronavirus outbreak. “The Randox Health Grand National festival will not take place. Public health must come first,” said Sandy Dudgeon, senior steward of the Jockey Club. The three day Aintree meeting, set between April 2-4, […]
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SO SORRY CHELTENHAM APOLOGY
‘I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart’ – jockey Jamie Moore Andrew Atkinson Cheltenham Festival proved to be one to forget for jockey Jamie Moore – left distraught – when being unseated by runaway leader Goshen at the final hurdle in the Triumph Hurdle on Gold Cup day, March 13. Speaking for the first […]
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