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Fine FromMusselburgh stages the first fixture of this year’s £1.3million Sky Bet Sunday Series and there is plenty to recommend aboutSilky Wilkie MU – 6.45in the £75,000 feature event. The five-year-old has been a fantastic servant for Middleham Park Racing, posting six wins and 15 seconds from 38 outings. He has already had four runs this year…

Lucinda Russell will consider a tilt at theLadbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup with Corach Rambler following his first fence exit in the Grand National.Following a highly creditable third place finish in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the 10-year-old was well fancied by many to claim back-to-back victories in the Aintree spectacular, but parted company with Derek Fox…

We have tips and views from connections for the Coral Scottish Grand National at Ayr.BALLYGRIFFINCOTTAGE (Andrew Asquith)Ballygrifincottage has seemingly had his problems in the past, but he took a big step back in the right direction when narrowly beaten at Sandown last time, and some of his form earlier in his career is strong. He…

Alaskan Gold nb – 2.40 will not be a surprise if causing one in the eleven-runner group three Greenham Stakes over seven furlongs of ‘good to soft’ Newbury this afternoon; there has to be a good reason why prolific ‘winning machine’ trainer Karl Burke has reached for the phone and booked former multiple champion jockey…

Fine From  Git Maker AY – 3.35 can prove a real party pooper for Jamie Snowden in the Coral Scottish Grand National at Ayr. This meeting has been dominated by talk of the trainers’ championship as it builds to a crescendo, with Willie Mullins, Paul Nicholls and Dan Skelton all throwing plenty of runners at the…

Having made it no further than The Chair in the Randox Grand National at Aintree, Mr Incredible is set to make a swift reappearance as part of Willie Mullins’ assault today’s Coral Scottish Grand National meeting at Ayr.The victory of I Am Maximus in the world’s most famous steeplechase put Mullins in pole position in…