"She seems a nice filly, being by Great Pretender we hadn't got much choice but to buy her given our luck with Fillies from the Sire".

He is from a consistent family that know how to win races and he should provide his new connections with some success in his novice campaign

There is something to be gained from these Barrier trials, especially in the early season, as they can be an excellent guide to those horses

I believe him to be the best Juvenile hurdler to have joined a British yard this Summer and I expect him to prove it.

This could look like a "Sam Allardyce Bargain Buy" if all goes well for Evan Williams.

Both the winner and the runner-up look like they might have some further improvement to come.

Hugo Merienne looks to be bringing him back to his best and his turn should not be far away.

He has produced a top class performance here and is surely now bound for much better races than this in the coming weeks.

It is never too late to be thinking about finding the winner of the Triumph hurdle.

She was professional at the start and knew her job, showing a lot of promise for next time.

There were several eye-catching performances on Monday afternoons cards and they are worth a few minutes of your time

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He is the best that I have seen, and he should be the standard setter for the early part of the campaign.

The superstar of French National Hunt racing, Il Est Francais makes his comeback in the Prix Murat at Auteuil this Saturday.

There is a chance of course that Grecian Storm is a class above this field, but it is not as certain as the market prices would suggest.

It would have been impossible to imagine what he might go on to achieve at that stage of his career, but it does highlight the value....

This Saturday’s card at Chantilly gets underway with a fascinating 3-year-old contest where all 5 runners arrive as “last time out winners"

Adam gives a brief summary of the 2YO races we have seen so far in France, with a couple of eye-catchers to note.

When JP McManus opens his cheque book everyone in the racing world should sit up and take notice.

The French 3-year-old season is already well underway and after seeing a few nice prospects at Auteuil this weekend I thought it was...