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3 Oct 2022 RACE REPORTS

Winter kings assemble their troops

Autumn brings a changing of the guard in the Jumps game, where winter horses brought in from their summer holidays in July make their first appearances of the season as October breaks and the leaves...

6 Sep 2022 RACE REPORTS

Pipe and McCain take advantage of O'Brien absence

Just 35 runners joined the party for what often identifies as Stratford's first autumn fixture at a time where the top yards are beginning to flex their muscles. The long hot and rainless summer has...

23 Aug 2022 RACE REPORTS

Twiston-Davies smartens up double-time

"Racing for the industry" was the phrase former Stratford Clerk of Course John Ford described mid week racing, but that was long before the era of summer jumping, which transformed the fortunes of...

21 Aug 2022 RACE REPORTS

Holiday break a tonic for the summer brigade

The 2 week break from Jump racing was perfectly timed to coincide with the latest heatwave in our glorious summer, but it was as if it might never have happened as the leading proponents of Summer...

28 Jul 2022 RACE REPORTS

Opposition folds in front of Cardboard Gangster

With 48 runners on yesterday's 7 race card, Stratford bucked a trend of small fields by current standards during this dry summer, and the proximity to the River Avon and ability to apply liberal...

20 Jul 2022 RACE REPORTS

Kielan Woods sets Stratford alight with treble

Ladies Day at Stratford this year took on a matinee feel as the races were pulled forward to cope with the heatwave. And if truth be told, light frocks were still too much in the sweltering heat....

11 Jul 2022 RACE REPORTS

More Jamacho joy for racing club members

Jamacho made the members of the Stratford Racecourse Racing Club happy again for a ninth time in 4 years as he won the Stratford Summer Salver, sponsored by Allsopps, in a very exciting finish with...

7 Jul 2022 RACE REPORTS

Jonjo has smart commodity to look ahead to

A total of 39 runners faced the starter in the six races programmed on June 28 for a sunny summer evening at Stratford, in which local Cotswold trainers put in a good showing.

14 Jun 2022 RACE REPORTS

A neck, a head, a neck... With finishes like this, racing is peerless

The attention of sports fans was perhaps centred more on events at Trent Bridge and Ascot than Stratford yesterday, but the six race card in beautiful early summer sunshine provided some highly...