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Winners, losers and revelations
We are all wiser now. Horse racing is lived looking forward, but we understand it far better looking back.
Flying the flag with honour
It wasn't a great week for the Irish at Cheltenham. After the heady heights of last year's record-breaking 13-race haul, this year's Festival brought us back to earth with a bump. As one Irish fancy after another bit the dust, it was as if we'd struck a bargain with the Devil in 2011 and he'd come round to collect 12 months later.
Scudamore secures National consolation
Tom Scudamore gained some consolation for his narrow defeat in the Cheltenham Gold Cup when winning the Midlands Grand National aboard Master Overseer.
Brilliance in saddle makes up for lack of pure quality under it
After almost three decades of searching, JP McManus found the key to Gold Cup success was in his own hands, writes John O'Brien
Vincent Hogan: McCoy hails Synchronised character as Kauto legend grows in defeat
The hardest man in the West Country came home on a little bay gelding, cut from the very same stone. AP McCoy and Synchronised stole up the hill like two rumours on a breeze, the great Cheltenham throng still fussing in a distracted froth at Kauto Star's search for one last, magical hallelujah perishing in the English gloom. It was, thus, a peculiar Gold Cup day.
Sweeney lights the way out of gloom for raiders
You kind of sensed it could be a long week for the Irish horses as soon as A New Story got chinned in the cross-country race on Tuesday.
Synchronised delivers lifelong dream for JP
IT'S for days like this in the Cotswolds that JP McManus ploughs fortunes into horses.
Race reads Day 4
1.30 Grade One JCB
Nicky Henderson sheds tears of joy after wapping up a remarkable week
IT brought tears to his eyes ... and who could blame NIcky Henderson for shedding tears of joy after another dramatic Cheltenham win.
Irish claim gold at Cheltenham with Synchronised
Tony McCoy claimed his second Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup as Synchronised showed reservoirs of stamina in the premier race of the National Hunt calendar.
