Day: 14 November 2021

West Cork shrugged off a 631-day absence to fend off top-weight Adagio and land the Unibet Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham. Trained by Dan Skelton and ridden by his champion jockey brother Harry, West Cork had to dig deep in the Grade Three feature – but the 11-1 winner had enough in hand to take the £56,270 first prize. No Ordinary Joe pulled his way to the front going past the winning post for the first time and he was still there as the field turned for home, although there appeared…

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Dysart Diamond was a determined winner of the Listed Frontline Security Grabel Mares Hurdle under Bryan Cooper at Punchestown. The Willie Mullins-trained chestnut has run well in handicap contests from summer through to the autumn and successfully made the step up in grade to score by half a length from Peter Fahey’s Royal Kahala, having started at 7-2. Declan Queally duo Western Victory and The Getaway Star were third and fourth respectively, with Henry de Bromhead’s Dawn Run winner Telmesomethinggirl fifth as the 3-1 favourite. “I’m delighted with how well…

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Kim Bailey has put a line through the second half of last season for Imperial Aura and is anticipating a bold show in the Betfair Chase. The eight-year-old began the last campaign with wins at Carlisle and Kempton, but things did not go to plan after Christmas. He unseated David Bass at Kempton and was then pulled up at the Cheltenham Festival, where he ran in the Ryanair Chase. A valid excuse emerged for that, however, and Bailey expects a better performance – although the likes A Plus Tard, Bristol…

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Perhaps the name of Roderick Turpijn means little to you. He was a Dutch footballer who made a handful of appearances for Ajax in the 1990s before moving on to De Graafschap and drifting out of the professional game by his mid-twenties. No matter. That one transfer had already set him up for life. Turpijn revealed as much in his own account of the deal. In an extraordinary act of brinkmanship, his agent had walked out on negotiations with De Graafschap – then, as now, an unremarkable Dutch team. He…

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Without LeBron James in action many of the frailties of this Los Angeles Lakers team have been nakedly exposed in the last week or so and Anthony Davis – the number two go-to man – is not at all happy. The Lakers were blown out by a Minnesota Timberwolves on a six-game skid after having lost games to the Oklahoma City Thunder and then the Portland Trail Blazers since James went down with an abdominal strain. Overtime wins over the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat have not been enough to paper over…

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