Send us a text Yes, we understand that 86 minutes is probably too long for a podcast. However, this episode doesn't just skim the surface. We get deep into the detail of each of the Grade 1s across both Boxing/St Stephen's Day and the 27th December with the Welsh Grand National thrown in for good measure. 8 races. Expert analysis. Seeing the wood for the trees, the objective. We had fun doing this one and hope you enjoy listening. Thanks for doing so and Merry Ch...

Send us a text After a couple of weeks off we're refreshed and excited to be back to get stuck into a great card at Ascot for their Christmas meeting, including the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle and some cracking handicaps. Let's see if we can boost the Christmas coffers, as the old cliche goes! Enjoy, Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text It's Coral Gold Cup weekend and we're back to scour the Newbury Saturday card, including a look at what is arguably the race of the season so far, The Fighting Fifth at Newcastle with Constitution Hill vs The New Lion! Enjoy, Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text What a Saturday of racing we have in store this week and, given we're actually going to Ascot on Saturday, we reserve this podcast's focus for the 7 races from the Berkshire track, including a cracking renewal of the 1965 Chase and Ascot Hurdle. Enjoy! Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text After picking a couple of winners on Day 1, we're back to preview the second and third days of the meeting, including the Paddy Power Gold Cup and the Greatwood Hurdle. Enjoy! Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text We're back and this week it's the Cheltenham November meeting, arguably the meeting that really marks the injection of the cream of the horse crop into the National Hunt season. In this episode, Bruno, Andy and I preview an exciting Friday card with *spoiler alert* the fabled Ben & Bruno DOUBLE NAP, while Andy loses his mind putting up one in the Shloer. We worry about him sometimes. Enjoy! Ben & Bruno Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - tha...

Send us a text Hello there pod fans and welcome to BADGER BEERS weekend at Wincanton, the site of one of our favourite race day experiences ever and a weekend we have a serious soft spot for. Maybe 'cos you're properly into November and it really feels like National Hunt season. Either way it's a great meeting and we have both that and Aintree's Grand Sefton meeting to look forward to this weekend! Bruno, myself and Mr AI himself Andy Inkling get stuck into 9 races across both car...

Send us a text After a monumental performance at HQ last weekend (if I do say so myself), we're back to look ahead to a cracking Saturday of action at Ascot and Wetherby this weekend, including the reapperance of some of the premier names in the sport that it's great to see out so early! Mr AI himself Andrew Inkling joins us again as he bids to maintain his 100% strike rate on the show, having provided 3 winners from his 3 naps since he came into our lives. Between us, we look at 5 race...

Send us a text It's that time of year again, at last! It's the return of jumps racing at National Hunt HQ. Happy days. And what a two days we have in store. Big fields, old favourites and horses we've heard about all summer that we're finally going to get to see in the flesh. And all on ground that should hopefully be perfect and mean very few non runners. What more could anyone want? We rattle through all 14 races, giving you a nap for each day, and we also welc...

Send us a text Well let's be fair it's a slightly fallow weekend of National Hunt racing after the buzz of Chepstow last weekend (and what a punting start we had!) and before the first Cheltenham meeting of the season next weekend. So we've decided to have a bit of fun this week because it is, of course, The Munster Nash! We look ahead to Sunday's card at Kempton before picking out our fancies for the big race at Limerick, also on Sunday, in the style of Bobby Pickett himself. We'...

Send us a text We're back! Refreshed and rejuvenated after a cracking summer, we're ready to get stuck right back into a new season of National Hunt racing with you. In this first episode of season FIVE (jeeze, how did we get here?), we pick out 3 horses each to follow for the season ahead. Could a forgotten Grade 1 winning second season novice chaser find his way back to the top? Could we have another northern-trained horse that will rise through the handicapping ranks to e...

Send us a text Hopefully some of you got on Irancy at a massive price on Tuesday! What a start to the week that was. We hit the post a couple of times after that but have some good fancies for the final three days of the Punchestown Festival to hopefully finish the National Hunt season on a high. Enjoy! Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text This week we are incredibly excited to say that we hit the 100 EPISODES milestone! We started this for a bit of fun in January '22 with no designs on where it would take us but we wanted to answer some of the many questions we had about the sport we love. And we think we did that in our "Deep Ground" sections of each episode which now, we like to think, cumulatively serve as a nice little reference library that you can dive back in to at any point should you want to...

Send us a text And just like that, the end of the jumps season is upon us. We're sad here at The Talking Horses Podcast BUT we're also very excited about a pheonmenal card at Sandown this Saturday to finish it all off with Willie and Dan fighting it out for the trainer's title. The odds are stacked against him with Willie's Irish armada making the journey but we think it's possible for Mr Skelton to pull it out of the fire. Enjoy! Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast...

Send us a text We're back for one of the big weekends in the Irish National Hunt racing calendar, it's the Irish Grand National meeting at Fairyhouse! Sadly, the Saturday has been lost to the weather. However, we're hopeful Sunday and Monday will go ahead and so we get stuck in to trying to find some winners across those two days including 11/1 and 4/1 naps and a strong joint fancy in the big race itself on Monday. Enjoy! Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so...

Send us a text We're back to preview Grand National Day itself with an in-depth look at all 7 races on the card and a JOINT NAP at double figure odds + a 69/1 ew double to get stuck into. Enjoy and good luck in the big one! Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text We're back for day 2 of the Grand National meeting and we've a horse in a Grade 1 to get well stuck in to along with some choice fancies in the handicaps where the value on day 2 most definitely lies. Enjoy! Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text The quick turnaround from Cheltenham to Aintree this year may not be the best news for those horses that ran at HQ but it's great news for us punters as we didn't have to wait long! We'll be with you with a separate episode for each day of the meeting this week, kicking off with Day 1 including a confident bet in the Foxhunters' of all races! Enjoy. Please rate and review the Talking Horses Podcast - thank you so much! Follow us on Twitter HERE and on Instagram HERE.

Send us a text As the dust settles on another memorable March week at HQ, our minds start to turn towards the rest of the spring festivals and, of course, nothing stands out more on the horizon than the Grand National itself. So this week, Bruno and I do the decent thing and get well and truly stuck into the greatest jumps race of them all in an effort to find some antepost value as well as a shortlist to take very seriously post declarations and once we know the ground. Enjoy! Please ...

Send us a text Well it's seems almost impossible to believe that the best week of the year is nearly upon us and Bruno and I could...not...be any more excited. The four best days in racing, jumps or flat, beckon and in what is our final episode before the big week we look ahead to each of the 12 handicaps and provide our angles and fancies. It's been a huge amount of fun researching for and putting together this episode and the handicaps in particular are such a game of opinions.&...