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After a cracking weekend at HQ for the October meeting, the season is in full flow and this weekend always feels like the one where the season's big guns really start to fire on both sides of the Irish Sea.

We preview four compelling handicaps from Ascot as well as the big Graded races at Wetherby and Down Royal, including the Charlie Hall Chase and the Ladbrokes Champion Chase featuring the return of Bruno's favourite horse in training!

We found 4 winners for you at HQ last weekend so let's hope for another good showing. Thanks for listening and enjoy!

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I think we can now legitimately say that the jumps are officially back, and we mark that particular piece of good news with a deeper look at the season's curtain-raiser at Cheltenham - it's the Showcase Meeting, and it's shaping up to be 2 pretty solid days of early season racing.

In our new format for this season, we whizz through the card for both Friday and Saturday, highlighting the horses and punting angles we feel most strongly about in the eternal quest for winners, winners, winners & Binners (Paddy Power's Paul Binfield).

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New season, new format...new music!

We are back after our flat racing-induced hibernation, almost 6 months to the day since we signed off series 3.

This time round we are freshening things up, not least with an epic new bit of intro music which should get the blood pumping before we share with you our 3 horses to follow for the upcoming jumps season, and this time we've each approached the task in very different ways.

Then from next week we'll step properly into our new bitesize format of previewing one of the weekend's racecards in forensic yet snappy detail, hopefully landing on some profitable angles that will at the very least help break down the big racedays.

In the meantime enjoy episode 1 and thanks to everyone for the continued support - hope you are looking forward to the new season as much as we are!

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Every year it's the same. October and the Persian War at Chepstow rolls around and the buzz for the new NH Racing season is audible! We're selecting our horses to follow. We have the first HQ meeting. The Grade 1s start rolling by late November and before we know it we're staring down the barrel of the manic Christmas schedule! The Challow marks the end of the year and with the New Year we're off HQ to shakle off the hangovers then to Warwick for the Classic Chase before the end of Jan/early Feb Cheltenham/DRF melee. Then it's the Cheltenham Festival Preview Nights and we're all like children on Xmas Eve (/totally sick of the previews!) by the time we reach that week in the middle of March. And then it's done...just like that...and we're off to Uttoxeter for the Midlands National and then on to Fairyhouse at Easter and then Aintree for the race that stops the nation!

Before suddenly...it's the Craven meeting at Newmarket and the jumps season is nearly over for another year...How the hell did that happen?

It's always sad when the season winds down but it's been a hell of a ride this year and, in this season finale episode, Bruno and I look back on our highlights as we dish out the now coveted Talking Horses Podcast End of Season Awards - namely Best Horse, Best Race and Best Personal Moment.

Then we look ahead, as one must in this world, to the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and bring you a 5-fold acca each across the championship races. Just for a bit of fun!

And last but by absolutely no means least, we both just wanted to say a massive thank you to all of you that have listened to us during this season. We both have full time jobs and Bruno has a young family. This is just a hobby for us but we love it and it means the world to be able to share our love for the sport with you guys and to have seen our regular listenership grow significantly as the season has progressed. So thank you...and we can't wait to be with you all again in October!

Enjoy Ayr, Sandown and Punchestown and have a great summer. We'll see you soon.

Cheers and much love,

Ben & Bruno x

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We're back for day 2 and 3 of the Grand National meeting after landing a 4/1 NAP on the Thursday!

We get stuck in to a load more Grade 1s and some competitive handicaps, not least the big one - the GRAND NATIONAL itself, in which our mutual antepost pick at 25/1 is sitting pretty (still at 16/1 in places!) after receiving a verbal boost from her major owner on ITV today! Hopefully there are more winners to be found.

Thanks for sticking with us this year and let's finish the season with a bang!

Cheers,

Ben & Bruno

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This week we are getting stuck into the GRAND NATIONAL MEETING. Bloody hell that felt like an age to wait after Cheltenham, didn't it?

In this episode we go through an amazing Thursday card at Aintree (including FOUR Grade 1s!) with selections for each race including a 7/2 and 4/1 NAP.

We'll be back on Friday morning with our Friday and Saturday selections.

Enjoy the racing!

Ben & Bruno x

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OK so everyone (it seems) has been banging on (far too negatively for the most part) about the Festival over the last couple of weeks but, within all of that, there is certainly a meaningful conversation to be had about positive change. This week, we compare notes on which races can be canned from our sport's flagship meeting to improve the quality of the races that remain over the week.

Then we look ahead to this Easter weekend's Irish Grand National in our antepost angle and, amongst others, dig out a 20/1 shot whose right-handed form far exceeds his left-handed. "Value!" I hear you cry. Oh yes.

Enjoy the pod and the fantastic Fairyhouse meeting this weekend.

Cheers,

Ben & Bruno x

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Well that was fun wasn't it! Another Cheltenham Festival in the can. We hope it went well for you! Bruno and I had a great time (and are broken now!).

This week, we share a couple of brief reflections on our sport's biggest week both from a racegoer experience and a punting perspective. Spoiler alert - we're not winging!!

Following that we look ahead to the sport's blue riband event, The Grand National, and share our antepost shortlists including a couple on which we both agree at 14 and 20/1 NRNB that are almost certainly going to go off much shorter if they take up their entry.

Time to get excited about the Spring Festivals at Fairyhouse, Aintree, Sandown and Punchestown guys. The jumps are far from over yet!

Cheers and thank you all so much for listening.

Big love,

Ben & Bruno

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