Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 3, 2012, 7:26 am
Unlike Ladies Day at Ascot, the only tanned mares with bright white teeth at Cheltenham will be the horses. Class, sophistication and an air of majestic triumph fill the grounds and that is even before the races begin. For women it is a chance to mingle with the likes of Princes...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 1, 2012, 1:06 pm
There are few finer sights in racing than a horse really enjoying Cheltenham’s undulations and jumping from fence to fence with relish. We were treated to that with the victory of Midnight Chase in the Argento Chase. Although four horses have won this en route to Cheltenham Gold Cup glory, t...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Jan 29, 2012, 5:43 am
For the first time this year we're doing something really exciting with video. Eight videos which will be filmed at the racecourse previewing eight top Cheltenham Festival races.Details below. Please help spread the word by sharing across your networks using SHARETHIS below the po...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Jan 25, 2012, 2:09 am
The World Hurdle is the highlight of the Thursday at the festival, and has thrown up some fabulous horses, including in recent years Baracouda and Inglis Drever, and of course last year, Big Bucks entered the record books being the first horse to win three in a row. It is no surprise to see th...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Jan 24, 2012, 2:12 pm

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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Jan 22, 2012, 10:52 am
Somersby; a horse that has more knockers than a good Carry On film, finally landed his much promised Grade One on Saturday in the Victor Chandler Chase. In doing so he beat joint favourite Finian’s Rainbow by just over a length. Surely Somersby is one of the most talked ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Nov 2, 2011, 4:53 am
It’s ten to follow time again! A few of these are not on the official Totesport ten to follow list. (TTTF) indicates those that are. Barrakilla. 4yo, Evan Williams Won his only point in Ireland before joining Evan Williams this summer. He had a good first run in an Ascot bumper last weekend....
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 31, 2011, 4:54 am
Review of Wetherby - Saturday 29 October 2011 It’s been a long road for Restless Harry from his 40/1 second in the 2009 Challow Hurdle to his scintillating victory in Saturday’s Grade two John Smiths Hurdle. After announcing his arrival onto the scene with an eight length win in the Classi...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 24, 2011, 4:09 pm
After the Grade Two Persian War Novices Hurdle at Chepstow on Saturday, there were two words scribbled into many a well regarded notebook, they were: Fingal Bay! The Philip Hobbs trained five year old was extremely impressive in his six length victory over Baile Anrai. Apparently suited by a little ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 24, 2011, 4:30 am
Champion Court won what will surely be the first of several novice chases yesterday when taking the Matalan Novices Chase at Aintree over 2 and half miles. I'm hopeful that his most important victory of the season will come on the 14 March 2012 at Cheltenham in the RSA Novices Chase. This love...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 23, 2011, 3:20 pm
We all doubted him, we all said it was practically a walkover for Master Minded but as Martin Pipe used to say "Never be afraid of just one horse!" What will become of the value of the 2011 Old Roan Chase is anybody's guess at this early stage of the season. However what remains apparent is that Al...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 18, 2011, 7:05 am
It’s very early days but I honestly believe we saw a surefire Cheltenham Festival winner on day two of the glorious Showcase meeting at Prestbury Park. The horse in question is Shark Hanlon’s Clondaw Warrior who won the closing Bumper in emphatic fashion. He had to survive a Steward’s In...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 15, 2011, 3:22 am
The JPFestival.com tip for the second day of the Showcase Meeting at Cheltenham today is ONE FOR JOULES in the hurdle race at 3.15pm. This 4 year old filly has good form, the potential for plenty of improvement yet carries bottom due to the sex allowance. She's very much on an upward curve having wo...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 14, 2011, 5:13 am
The JPFestival.com tip for the first day of the Showcase Meeting at Cheltenham today is COURT IN SESSION in the 4.30pm. This locally trained ex-pointer loves to hear his hooves rattle and will enjoy the unseasonal good to firm ground around Prestbury Park. He'll also be suited by the step up in trip...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 4, 2011, 11:23 am
There are several hundred reasons why I would rather be residing in Ireland. Two of those being:  1) They are not sweltering in a ridiculous Indian summer! 2) Their National Hunt season has kicked off in fine style already! Yesterday’s meeting at Tipperary featured wins from Cheltenham Festival h...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Oct 1, 2011, 4:57 pm
... Park.  Rubi Light had the reigning Champion Chaser booked for second place ... Hopefully Rubi Light is none the worse for the fall. He appeared ... three weeks. He did travel over for the original Boxing Day date ... game. As for Rubi Light he remains in the exciting bracket. ... lik...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Sep 27, 2011, 3:03 am
Cheltenham Social Media Club - Thursday 29 September, 6pm-8pm - Freewww.wearesocialclub.co.ukAn social evening with live music from Ags Connelly singer/songwriter. Connect Business Day - Friday 30 September, 10am-4pm - Free but please book onlinewww.connectbusiness.org.ukConnecting Gloucestershire c...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Sep 21, 2011, 6:21 am
When I was a child my late Father would show me worn VHS tapes of Red Rum’s three Grand Nationals. He would speak with admiration of Ginger McCain; the man who epitomised the jumping game by going from taxi driver to a household name. I would listen to a wonderful tale of how he turned a once some...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Sep 16, 2011, 9:01 am
It’s all just a little bit of history repeating itself! Same horse, same jockey, different trainer! That was the script behind the 2011 Kerry National at Listowel on Wednesday. Alfa Beat had won the race in 2010 when trained by Charles Byrnes; he is now in the care of John 'Shark' Hanlon ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Sep 3, 2011, 8:39 am
It's important to have a good sized and quality audience for your social media activity. A new feature from LinkedIn can help. LinkedIn have recently introduced Follow buttons for those that have their Twitter handles on their profile. This makes it easy for those viewing your profile to also ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Aug 4, 2011, 3:47 am
Blazing Tempo was an impressive winner of the Galway Plate last week when collaring likely winner Wise Old Owl in the closing stages of the 2m6f contest. Trainer Willie Mullins has nominated future targets such as next month’s Kerry National and a tilt at the English Hennessy in November. It is l...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Jul 28, 2011, 8:22 am
The new social network Google+ (aka Google Plus) is the current hot topic in social media circles. Launched on 28 June for 'field testing' it has amassed 10 million users in 2 weeks and now has over 20 million. It took Twitter 18 months and Facebook 3 years to achieve these numbers. Google+ integrat...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Jul 17, 2011, 5:13 pm
I am delighted to kick off with the first post for jpfestival.com for the 2011/12 National Hunt season. We will be bringing you previews, news and reviews on every big race in Britain and Ireland. It is only 8 months until the Cheltenham Festival! Just imagine all the sensational races we will see a...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Jun 29, 2011, 1:57 pm
To mark Social Media Day 2011 Intranet Future are offering 20% OFF all July workshops at The Brown Jug, Cheltenham booked on Thursday 30 June. So you can learn about social media for business using Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn for £53.60. Or come along to all three for £160.80. The content...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Jun 9, 2011, 9:00 am
Mainstream journalism often fails to accurately report technology stories and the 'Facebook’s overnight switch sparks privacy row' article in today's Times if further evidence of this. In the first two paragraphs there are no less than four inaccuracies. In fact, the first six words contain ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - May 8, 2011, 7:45 am
Fairway to Furlong is an exciting and unique concept created by YourGolfTravel.com that combines championship golf with some of the UK's most high profile horseracing fixtures. The aim is to provide avid golfers and racing enthusiasts the opportunity to experience the two sports with a variety of ex...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Apr 22, 2011, 7:37 am
Several times a week I come across business people who aren't aware that they can have their own address or 'vanity URL' for their Facebook Business Page. For example, my Facebook Page address is http://facebook.com/intranetfuture. Facebook refer to the part after facebook.com as 'username'. I...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Apr 3, 2011, 10:16 am
The Grand National, the people’s race. An extraordinary test of jumping, stamina and courage. From Lottery winning the inaugural running of the race in 1859 to the famous victory of AP McCoy and Don’t Push It last year, the race tells some remarkable stories that even the most gifted script writ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 22, 2011, 7:12 am
Congratulations to Jordan McBride who has won the title of jpfestival.com Top Cheltenham Tipster! All competitors apart from yours truly, JP, managed a winner. Cathryn hit the mark with Hurricane Fly, Jordan with Zarkander and Tom Segal with Captain Chris. Under the terms of the competition, Jordan...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 20, 2011, 5:29 pm
Remember as a child the feeling you would get when your parents would be stripping the Christmas tree of its glamour on the twelfth night? You would watch with a long face as the threadbare tree was taken out to the garden and the decorations were packed away, only to see light of day again in twelv...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 19, 2011, 7:06 am
A wonderful Festival of hopes realised and new Champions crowned but a poor one for jpfestival.com tips. We could have done with a bit of luck here and there but there were poor performances from two of the selections and Gauvain ran in an alternative race. All selections were advised to 1pt e...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 14, 2011, 11:41 am
Tuesday, Champion Hurdle: Hurricane Fly; you all know by now that if he was a man I would marry him! Yes, I’ve heard it all; “won’t get up the hill”, “Montjeu Horses don’t act at Cheltenham” and “won’t like Cheltenham”. Forget all that, to me he is the winner of the Champion Hurd...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 5:43 pm
Gonna skip the Q and A as lots of noise and too difficult to blog everything. Signing off here but will put out the occasional tweet at @jpfestival. In summary, the best info was Paul Nicholls really keen on Master Minded, Big Bucks but most interesting of all Join Together in the Albert Bartl...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 5:24 pm
DJ: Disappointed about Diamond Harry not running. PN: Paul to run 4 with Daryl riding What A Friend. Needs decent ground. Ground is going Kauto's way. Not sure where he is with Denman. MF: Amateur jockey on Long Run not disadvantage as Sam W-J knows him. Good ground might be a concern fo...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 5:19 pm
RW: Wide open race. TS: Likes Kilcrea Kim. Big word in Ireland for Gagewell Flyer. Thinks it will be 6/1 on the day. DJ: Also heard that Gagewell Flyer will run well. PN: Likes Join Together and Ruby rides. Good performance last time. Worked well on Saturday. (Paul sounds confident...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 5:14 pm
PN: Zarkander will be ridden by Daryl. Wore blinkers in France. Diff animal post gelding. Jumps great. Surprised by performance at Kempton. Ruby is on Sam Winner. Stays strongly and will be smart chaser next year. Harry Skelton rides Brampour. Paul doesn't want quick ground for Sam Winner. Not much ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 5:10 pm
PN: The better the race the better it is for Big Bucks. Plenty of good horses in race. DJ: Tactics will be fascinating. (Tom should go for it 1 mile out on jpfestival.com tip Grands Crus). Daryl agrees - who goes first wins. AL: Grands Crus is a really mild horse but pulls on gallop and ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 4:48 pm
AL: Believes that Captain Chris will go for Arkle. TS: Thinks that Wishful Thinking will run here and Captain Chris in the Arkle. PN: Thinks Captain Chris needs 3 miles! Robinson Collonges is a definite runner and wants 2 miles 4 furlongs. Quite likes him and Ruby rides. DJ: No rid...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 4:02 pm
PN: Big Zeb is the danger to Master Minded who is in good form. Much better since breathing op. Does breathing ops with about 20% of his horses each season. Woolcombe Folly to be ridden by DJ. Has improved a lot this season and surprised Paul. Loves good ground DJ: Stepping into bigger league ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 3:50 pm
MF: Time For Rupert is very smart horse but no value. Goes for Magnanimity. PN: Aiteen Thirtythree is riden by DJ. Ground won't be a problem. Says AT is very impressive but hard to get a handle on him. (Doesn't sound that confident to me). DJ: Schooled AT today. Surprised that Ruby has g...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 13, 2011, 3:43 pm
PN: Daryl rides Rock On Ruby. Ruby is on So Young. ROR very well and has a chance. Doesn't sound that confident though. DJ: ROR jumps well and looking forward to riding him. MF: Mullins sweet on So Young but Mick likes jpfestival.com banker Oscars Well. Says good solid. Says don't given ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on INTRANETS - NOW AND THE FUTURE - Mar 8, 2011, 8:15 am
No matter what business you're in, if you haven't yet looked at a Facebook Page to promote you business and engage with your customers, now is a great time to do so. Last month, Facebook rolled out a massive upgrade which included a redesign making the Pages similar in style to existing Profile page...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Mar 2, 2011, 3:23 am
Just for a bit of fun we're competing for the title of jpfestival.com 'Top Cheltenham Tipster'. We've put up our selections for some key races at the Cheltenham Festival which is now less than two weeks away. We've also asked Tom Segal, Pricewise of the The Racing Post, to join in so we've included ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 26, 2011, 3:18 pm
Zarkandar a half brother to 2008 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Zarkava and impeccably bred by HRH The Aga Khan; impressed on his jumps debut when winning the The Adonis Juvenile Hurdle at Kempton today. The Alan King trained Kumbeshwar led until the second last but was swallowed up by second pl...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 26, 2011, 1:40 pm
Quinz showed battling qualities to land the Racing Post Chase and in doing so paid a handsome compliment to RSA favourite Time For Rupert who beat Quinz into 3rd at Cheltenham in December. On the run from the last it was nip and tuck between Quinz and 50/1 shot Mount Oscar who ran a huge race but Qu...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 26, 2011, 1:38 pm
I really wanted American Trilogy to win this race purely because I wanted to write the headline “Glory Glory Hallelujah” (one for the Elvis fans!) but seeing as he jumped so violently left he was nearly having lunch in the Panoramic Restaurant; it's Captain Chris that takes the headline to this ...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 20, 2011, 4:42 pm
Golden Silver provided one leg of a fabulous four timer for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend at Naas. The duo remain in great form on the run up to the Cheltenham Festival. Golden Silver was sent off the 2/13 favourite in what turned out to be a three runner race for the Grade Two Paddy Power.com Cha...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 20, 2011, 11:40 am
Back in Focus exploded into the Albert Bartlett picture with an impressive victory in the Prestige Novices Hurdle at Haydock, upsetting the highly regarded Court In Motion in the process. His victory came as a surprise to everyone apart from those closest to the horse who reported that he had arrive...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 20, 2011, 8:57 am
A look at the trends behind the Arkle by Tony McCormick The Arkle Challenge Trophy was introduced as a replacement for the Cotswold Chase, a previous event at the Cheltenham Festival, in 1969. Its title pays tribute to Arkle, a three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup in the mid 1960s. The...
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Jonathan P. posted an article on Cheltenham Festival Preview - Feb 20, 2011, 8:25 am
Riverside Theatre built on his King George second when winning the Grade One Betfair Ascot Chase, a race that was marred by the fatal injury to rising star Pride of Dulcote. It is uncertain whether Riverside Theatre will line up in any race at the Cheltenham Festival as before this victory he was ai...
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