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Events, Races, Charity, News

Short-form video is somewhat of a new revelation in online entertainment. A product of the feed and to continue to spur on scrolling, quick videos that are punchy, impactful, and over in a few seconds have become the preferred form of social media consumption for millions. Having been made mainstream by TikTok – although Instagram, […]

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Four years after his first win in the race, the 11-year-old took the £150,000 May Bank Holiday card’s feature prize back off the field he’d once dominated, and gave his owner a result that mattered for reasons that had nothing to do with racing. Tommie Beau had gone 14 races without a win, a losing […]

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Horse racing is enjoying a resurgence across the UK and even overseas right now. Attendances have returned to 2019 figures, there seems to be even more of a spotlight on the major festivals, and the sport seems to have re-entered the water cooler conversation. Interest and involvement in horse racing is rising at a decent […]

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I’ve never been one for demoting racing purely to a story of horse racing odds. It’s primarily a people business, populated by a variety of rogues, well-bred gentry and ne’er do wells from every social level, all bound together by an interest in the horse. Small wonder Dick Francis and others found so much to […]

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More than 100 miles separates Stuart Edmunds’ training yard in Leighton Buzzard from Fakenham Racecourse here in Norfolk. But the track has become a home from home for Edmunds, who over the course of the past five seasons has accumulated the highest strike rate of trainers to have won ten or more races here. At […]

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Trainer Ben Case was all smiles after his seven-year-old gelding Nickelforce won the Fakenham racecourse Ladies’ Day feature race, the Prince of Wales Cup Chase. One of the owners, David Walsh, had, for many years sought a winner at Fakenham, and on Sunday that wish came true when Nickelforce stormed home at 11/5. When early […]

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Newmarket trainer James Owen always seems to have his horses in form whether on the flat or over the jumps and he has chances to improve his already successful record at Fakenham on Sunday. The north Norfolk racecourse holds its annual Ladies’ Day as it brings down the curtain on the 2025/26 season before its […]

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LUCY Wadham, the Newmarket trained with the Midas touch at Fakenham racecourse, bids to land the feature race as the north Norfolk venue closes its 2025/26 season with the annual Ladies’ Day meeting on Sunday (May 31). Wadham has entered 10-year-old gelding Hurricane Bay in the 4.37pm Prince of Wales Cup Chase, worth £15,000. Tom […]

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Trainer Chris Honour, based 315 miles from Fakenham, in Ashburton, Devon, was an ‘emotional wreck’ after Time to Bite won the £30,000 Veterans’ Chase at Fakenham’s £150,000 prizemoney Bank Holiday meeting which produced one of the finest days of jump racing seen at the course. Honour was the jockey on legendary Fakenham winner Cool Roxy […]

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TWO-TIMES champion jockey Sean Bowen clocked up the 1,000th winner of his career at Fakenham a year ago and recently rode a magnificent hat-trick of winners at the Norfolk course. On Monday, he returns to a track he loves with a terrific book of ride as Fakenham stages its richest ever race day, with prizemoney […]