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.

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

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...

He caught the eye and may well develop into an above average performer in time, so I thought I would get him into the blog.

Adam makes his second appearance on the Final Furlong Podcast, this time looking at some of the older French recruits and how they have...

It's Betfair Hurdle day at Newbury this Saturday and you may have noticed that there is now a well-backed Willie Mullins trained favourite.

The PDF contains basic data on how they were prepared for the festival, where they were sourced from and how high they ultimately reached.

The horses who chased him home had decent form in the book, but they simply couldn't live with his speed after the 2nd last.

I have been collating some data on Willie Mullins' runners in the Novice races at the Cheltenham Festival in the last decade.

In this weeks French Racing Video, Adam gives you his thoughts on 5 French-trained horses who have appeared in the Antepost markets.

The sense I have from watching the replay and the time figures is that this was an above average piece of form for the time of year.

I expected to see him around 8/13 when the markets opened, so the fact there is 11/8 around was enough to persuade me he is the bet.

I am delighted to share short preview of this weekends Grade 1 action at Auteuil.

I think he is the most exciting French recruit we have seen so far this season.

Both of these recruits look more than capable of winning Juvenile hurdles in the UK based on what they achieved in France.

I have a basic rule with the ground on the hurdles track, wherever James Reveley chooses to ride is usually the best ground on offer.

Once this weekends meeting at Paris Longchamp is over the attention will quickly move on to the Jumpers again and there were...

Here are the time comparisons for all of the 9 races run at Auteuil on Tuesday, as well as the speed ratings for the hurdles races.