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As we're always on the look out for winning favourites here at Favourites.net and the Cheltenham Festival is just around the corner, it seems like as good a time as any to take a trip down memory lane and highlight how favourites performed over the four day festival by year (for the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015). Here we can see that in 2012 you'd have been…

In the 32RedSport.com Handicap (5.45) at Newcastle on Wednesday, Windsor Cross has been raised just 3lb for winning a 0-95 handicap over course and distance earlier this month and looks to have been found a decent opportunity to follow up. Richard Fahey’s 3-year-old stayed on strongly to record his second course and distance win last time and, dropping back into 0-80 company, against three maidens and Hard Graft,…

Jack The Truth didn’t see a racecourse until last February but, after a couple of ‘sighters’ on Polytrack and Tapeta, has won his last two starts on Fibresand in convincing style and looks a decent bet to complete a hat-trick in the Betway Handicap (2.20) at Southwell on Tuesday. The son of high-class sprinter Dandy Man was ridden clear in the closing stages to win by 4 lengths…

England were gifted, some would say, a rather easy World Cup group (G) in the Russia 2018 World Cup.Current odds have us at 6/4 to win the group. That sounds about right to me, as Belgium are a worthy adversary, undefeated in qualifying. Panama and Tunisia though are of course  not on our level. We do typically make hard work of things though so who knows what weird…

Tony McCoy earned 20 consecutive Champion Jockey titles, the Sports Personality of the Year award and a knighthood during a long and glittering career. He is the best rider the National Hunt scene has ever witnessed and he claimed more than 4,000 winners between his 1995 debut and his 2015 retirement. His closest rival in the all-time stakes is some 1,500 winners behind him, and nobody can match…