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Grand National
17:54, 25 JUL 2013
Blue heaven
Barrie Hipkiss
CHESTER City FC may be finding victories hard to come by, but a group of Blues fans are on to a winner!
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Punters back with a Bangor
Ford
AFTER a break of almost two months, the first Bangor-on-Dee meeting in 2006 takes place this afternoon.
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Ebony Light to spice up Ginger's National finale
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TRAINER Ginger McCain exclaimed: 'I'm going to Liverpool with my tail right up!' as Ebony Light galloped into contention for the 2006 John Smith's Aintree Grand National with a smooth victory in the three-mile Peter Marsh Chase at Haydock last Saturday.
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Top 40 hit for Ebony is Ginger's swansong
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'IF the Handicapper doesn't put him up enough now to get in the National field, I'll shoot him!'
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Haydock form will be guide
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AS the pinnacle of jump racing is now only two months away, the card at Haydock Park tomorrow may provide punters with vital clues for the Cheltenham festival in March.
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Kelda glad to make a Point
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ENTHUSIASM for 'racing between the flags' features in every word Kelda Wood of Cholmondeley uses about the sport and the equine residents in her yard.
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Carrie's National finish the highlight
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'IT was the thrill of a lifetime, he was brilliant,' was the comment made after Carrie Ford of Little Budworth equalled the best-ever position returned by a woman jockey in the John Smith's Aintree Grand National back in April when riding Forest Gunner.
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Tears and triumphs
BBC
REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2005: NORTHWICH Vics proved you cannot keep a good - and newsworthy - club out of the headlines.
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Remembering a year at the races
Cheshire Oaks
IT'S time to take a look back at the highlights of 2005 at Chester and Bangor-on-Dee Racecourses as well as the racing scene in and around Cheshire.
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Ebony Light is soon shining
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BANGOR-on-Dee racecourse rounded off 2005 with the traditional midweek fixture on Wednesday where locally trained horses Ebony Light and Lost In Normandy graced the winners enclosure watched by a crowd of 3,080.
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Welsh big race next on wish list for Ford
Cheltenham Festival
TARPORLEY trainer Richard Ford is targeting this year's Welsh National - at The Principality's 'other' racecourse.
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Legend back for big race
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SIX horses were in a line jumping the last fence of the totesport Becher Handicap Steeplechase at Aintree last Sunday, one of the feature races of the new North West Masters weekend.
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Eyes on Aintree legends
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THE sight of two former Grand National winners running so well back on their old stomping ground at Aintree Racecourse warmed the heart.
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Aintree farewell to famous piece of racing history
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RACEGOERS, jockeys and trainers have paid an emotional farewell to the famous winner's enclosure at Aintree before it is transformed as part of a £30m redevelopment.
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Kicking King has luck of the Irish
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THE North West Masters weekend has attracted top horses throughout a two-day feast of racing.
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Aintree's family affair set to continue
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THE Carberry racing family of Ireland and Aintree Racecourse go together like milk and cereal.
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Ford's Forest Gunner will be the one to watch
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CHESHIRE-TRAINED steeplechaser Forest Gunner - who made headlines around the world when partnered by trainer's wife Carrie Ford in the Grand National last spring - is poised to return to action.
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Ford gunning for continued success at Aintree
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CHESHIRE-TRAINED steeplechaser Forest Gunner - who made headlines around the world when partnered by trainer's wife Carrie Ford in the Grand National last spring - is poised to return to action.
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Follow the leaders and cash in
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WITH a guaranteed minimum pool of £1m, it is worth dusting off the form books to enter the Tote/Racing Post 10 To Follow contest before the closing date on Wednesday.
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Murphy hands it to Impek
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A CHANGE to front-running tactics suited Impek in the first leg of the Order of Merit challenge that was launched by the British Horseracing Board at Aintree last Sunday and runs through to the Grand National next April.
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Jockey gees up equine initiative
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CARRIE Ford, the jockey who beat the odds to finish fifth in last year's Grand National, has made a special return to the saddle.
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Up and running for new campaign
Cheltenham Festival
JUMP racing at Aintree tomorrow marks the start of the season at the venue of the historic Grand National.
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Biography the festive must-have
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THE most obvious stocking filler for the horse racing fan in South Cheshire this Christmas - apart from a large ante-post voucher for next year's Grand National - is Ginger McCain's biography.
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Effort is enough to win
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THE star attraction at Bangor-on-Dee last Saturday was Iris's Gift in the Bright Future Novices' Steeplechase.
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