ITV Racing: Live Coverage on February 3rd 2024

Racing from Sandown, Leopardstown and Mussleburgh

ITV's coverage will come live from Sandown Park, showing five of the day's seven races on a packed card. The highlight of the meeting is the Grade 1 Virgin Bet Scilly Isles Novices' Chase. Djelo runs for trainer Venetia Williams, who is eyeing a second win in the race in three years, having won the 2022 renewal with L'Homme Presse. Hermes Allen and Corbetts Cross are the big dangers.

In addition to Sandown, ITV will broadcast live coverage of three races up at Musselburgh whilst they'll be over at Leopardstown for two races on day one of the Dublin Racing Festival.

The big race at Leopardstown is the Grade 1 Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup, which is scheduled to get underway at 3:35pm. Last year's winner, Galopin Des Champs, could go off as the odds-on favourite for the race, but there will be fierce competition from the likes of Fastorslow, Gentlemansgame, Gerri Colombe and Conflated.

Oli Bell will present Saturday's ITV racing coverage, with analysis from Luke Harvey and Mick Fitzgerald. Viewers will also enjoy reports from Alice Plunket and Natalie Green, with additional commentary from Richard Holies.

Here is a preview of what racing fans can expect this coming Saturday.

Sandown

Saturday's feature race at Sandown is the 2:35 Scilly Isles Novices' Chase, a Grade 1 race sponsored by Virgin Bet. The race will be aired on ITV3, with seven runners taking on the 2 mile, four-furlong course. Here is the full list of Sandown races ITV are providing coverage of:

1:25 - Virgin Bet Daily Price Boosts Novices' Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Cl3 (4yo+ 0-125) 2m4f 15 runners

2:00 - Virgin Bet Every Saturday Money Back Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl2 (5yo+) 1m7½f 12 runners

2:35 - Virgin Bet Scilly Isles Novices' Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (5yo+) 2m4f 7 runners

3:10 - Virgin Bet Heroes Handicap Hurdle (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 2m7½f 22 runners

3:45 - Virgin Bet Masters Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl2 (5yo+) 3m 22 runners.

Leopardstown

Leopardstown will host The Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup. This race is regularly penned as the leading trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. To date, only four horses have won the two races in the same year. These are Jodami (1993), Imperial Call (1996), Sizing John (2017) and Galopin Des Champs (2023).

Musselburgh

ITV3 will be providing coverage of three of the six races hosted at Musselburgh on Saturday, all of which have been sponsored by online bookmakers Bet365. Here are the three races:

1:40 - bet365 Frodon Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl3 (5yo+) 2m4½f 12 runners

2:15 - bet365 Edinburgh National Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl2 (5yo+ 0-150) 3m7½f 15 runners

2:50 - bet365 Scottish County Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Cl2 (4yo+ 0-145) 1m7½f 22 runners