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Submitting... Just a day after that extraordinary win, he fell in a race at Hexham and landed in hospital after he was trodden on by another horse. In the following months, he struggled to maintain the required weight to the extent that it made him “miserable, grumpy… very selfish. I didn’t like the person I was”, as he later told the BBC. His love of racing had gone and it seemed as if his career was over. But, after nearly five years away from the sport, he returned and an “over the moon” Mania has now won on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, one of the biggest events ...

Updated / Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021 17:16 Vintage Clouds returned at 28-1 Vintage Clouds provided the first shock of the Festival, with a 28-1 victory in the Ultima Handicap Chase. Sue Smith's grey, ridden by the Yorkshire yard’s Grand National-winning jockey Ryan Mania, was running in the opening handicap of the meeting for the fifth year in succession. The 11-year-old’s best previous effort was second in 2019 – but this time, he took over on the final circuit and was never headed again. Runner-up Happygolucky, the 100-30 favourite, and third-placed Aye Right both ran with great credit but...

Grand National-winning jockey Ryan Mania rode his first ever Cheltenham Festival winner on the Sue Smith-trained Vintage Clouds on Tuesday (16 March) – seven years after he announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 25. Mania was “enticed back” in October 2019, describing his first Festival winner in the grade three Ultima […]

Sue Smith and Ryan Mania are fancied to team up to good effect with INFORMATEUR in this 3m 1f handicap chase as he goes in search of a second chase win. He was quite useful as a hurdler, winning three times and finishing out of the first three in just five of 13 starts as he attained a peak rating of 130. He has won on good, soft and heavy ground, so the prevailing conditions here won’t be a bother. He appeared to need the run on his chasing bow at Sedgefield before getting on the scoresheet here in November. The odds-on jolly Birchdale departed when in the lead in that contest but Info...

The British Horseracing Authority said on Thursday that it has been conducting “additional ID checks” at major Flat meetings and is still engaged in a “longer term piece of work” to prevent any repeat of the embarrassing debacle at Newmarket last year when two horses from Aidan O’Brien’s yard, Mother Earth and Snowfall, swapped identities in the Group One Fillies’ Mile. O’Brien was fined £4,000 over the incident by the BHA’s disciplinary panel...