UK and Ireland Sunday.

Good morning with poor racing today having a look overseas where Dunguib runs in Ireland, going for a four timer and should win well, its one of the strong favs for the Cheltenham festival.
In addition Pittoni should make it a hat trick of wins at the Leopardstown track.

Bob are you going to Musselburgh? few good favs today Candy Creek, Carlito Brigante, Stricking Article and Owen Glendower can all win plus fancy Eradicate.

At Southwell Inside Track and Flow Chart are the bankers.

Also racing from Fontwell

please post your fancies

good punting!

Racing Post

COOLDINE goes in search of a toehold in the two-horse market for the Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup when he bids to bounce back from a dismal Christmas with victory in Ireland's equivalent race - the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Last season's runaway RSA Chase winner is 12-1 joint third-favourite with Coral for the Cheltenham contest, one dominated by the winners of the last three runnings, Kauto Star and Denman.

The task for Cooldine is to show a glimpse of last season's form, which was missing when the Willie Mullins-trained star flopped as favourite for the Grade 1 Lexus Chase at Leopardstown in December.

Mullins reports in his exclusive column in the Racing Post on Sunday that Violet and Archie O'Leary's eight-year-old has recovered after not scoping cleanly then, but has some concern about Cooldine's match fitness for the 3m chase.

Jockey Ruby Walsh, who is due to ride Kauto Star in the Gold Cup, is nonetheless looking for victory in the Hennessy on Cooldine.

Walsh said: "He has been working well recently, but Willie is worried about his match fitness. I'll be looking for a major effort from him and I just hope that the lack of an extra outing this season doesn't find him out."

On a card featuring four Grade 1 races, all eyes will be on Dunguib, the raging-hot favourite for the Spinal Research Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

He faces seven rivals in the Grade 1 Deloitte Hurdle, in which he is set to go off at long odds on for his final prep spin.

Trainer Philip Fenton, writing inhis blog on racingpost.com, said on Saturday: "I heard there was a little rainfall on Saturday morning that was not forecast, but hopefully that's the last of the surprises.

"Luckily, Leopardstown is a bit like Sandown or Ascot in that it does not tend to get really testing like it was at Clonmel on Thursday - that was hard to walk on, never mind gallop!

"That is the sort of ground we don't want to run Dunguib on and at the moment it looks as though we'll be okay."

A year ago Cooldine looked the business when winning the Grade 1 Dr P J Moriarty Chase, so the winner this year will be saddled with great expectations.

A field of eight is led by the hat-trick seeking Roberto Goldback, and includes Weapon's Amnesty, a winner over hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival last season.

The card opens with the first running at Grade 1 level of the Spring Juvenile Hurdle. The field of six features the unbeaten pair of Shanrod and Pittoni, the likely odds-on favourite.

Durberville and Madison Belle at Southwell

I am not bothering with the horses today. Going to Murrayfield to watch the French give the Scots carrots.

Great stadium, hope you will be singing Flower of Scotland. enjoy the day C and C

Im in Edinburgh today CnC,fancy a pint?

Anyone staying up late to watch the Superbowl?

New Orleans for the upset?

No BOB, but good results at Musselburgh and you must have all backed "Leith Walk"

What about the atmosphere at Murrayfield, magic!

This is the big meeting at Musselburgh,that i nearly knocked Freddie Williams (R.i.p)of his stool lumping on Crow wood..

Pittoni and Dunguib both won well in Ireland and the results at Musselburgh still going well

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> Im in Edinburgh today CnC,fancy a pint?


Darn it Hibs I only saw this now..but I dont drink alcohol and whenever I go into a pub and order a coffee or a soft drink these hard looking Scotsman look at me as if I am from another world.

Hope you ask for the cold drink in a dirty glass