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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Can you smell the Prestbury Park turf yet? Are you seeing Cleeve Hill in your dreams? Is everything you see starting to look like a pint of Guinness?

Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, the week that's better than Christmas for all National Hunt racing fans is finally upon us! Is there a better feeling in the world?

In this episode, we fly through all 28 races bringing you honest opinions on each including BIG fancies, races we can't make head or tail of, favourites to lay and, hopefully, lots and lots of winners. At the very least, we hope it brings food for thought as you cement your own last minute punting positions for the week ahead.

Enjoy. Gamble responsibly. And we hope to see some of you there!

Cheers,

Ben & Bruno x

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After covering the Tuesday and Wednesday Festival handicaps in last week's episode, we're back this week to go through the remainder across days 3 and 4.

We look at some of the angles that can often help to find the winner of each race and provide a shortlist for each of the five races, including some stronger fancies for the Plate and the County Hurdle, plus there's a chance Bruno has plucked Chambard mark 2 from obscurity in the Kim Muir! We also appraise each race for whether it's worth having a bet now or waiting until final decs.

Some of the Festival handicaps are more devilish than others but they're races in which we've done fairly well in the past so fingers crossed we've found some more Festival winners in waiting for everyone here!

Look out for our final Festival run-down, out on the Monday morning of Festival week.

Until then, thanks for listening and enjoy the show!

Cheers,

Ben & Bruno x

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With less than 3 weeks to go until the Festival and the handicap entries out this week, the handicap markets are about to go into silly season so this week we attempt to get you ahead of the curve with the horses to consider backing now before they shorten and indeed those that are already too short and there to be taken on.

We also discuss which races have a good antepost shape to them vs those in which there's bound to be tons of value on the day.

There are a few really strong fancies and a couple of firm lays so plenty to get the Festival juices flowing even further!

Enjoy the show and thanks for listening.

Cheers,

Ben & Bruno x

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