The Bowen brothers begin their Cheltenham Festival campaign on Tuesday afternoon, with both young Welsh jockeys having rides in the early races. James – who at just 16 became the youngest jockey to win the Welsh National in January – rides Shantou Flyer in the Ultima Handicap Chase at 2.50pm, with older brother Sean, 19, aboard Minella Daddy in the same race. Before then, Sean is also riding in the opening race, the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at 13.30, on Simply The Betts.

Cardiff Devils have four players in a 28-man Great Britain squad for their pre-World Championship training camp and two international matches against Lithuania next month. GB host Lithuania in Milton Keynes on Saturday, April 14 (7pm) and the following day in Coventry’s Skydome Arena (5.15pm). Ben Bowns, Thomas Murdy, Mark Richardson and Matthew Myers are […]

Merthyr Town take on the Crows at their Garden Walk stadium in Hertfordshire this evening (Tuesday, 7.45pm). Manager Steve Castle and his Crows – Royston Town – are ninth in EvoStik Southern League Premier Division and chasing hard for a place in the play-offs. The Martyrs make the trip with renewed confidence after earning three […]

Penarth Hockey Club 1st XI continued their rapid rise up the UK ladder system with a win over Gloucester City on Saturday confirming a third successive promotion that will see the Bears playing just one step from the National League next season. PENARTH 3-2 Gloucester City Penarth hosted mid-table Gloucester City knowing that a win would mean another big step towards securing promotion to the Premiership – easily the highest echelon ever achieved by a Penarth side – but did so knowing that the absence of influential midfielder Ben Croxall would require a restructure of the team’s line-up and an unlikely repeat of earlier 9-2 victory over the border.

Aldi shopper Neil Warnock is aiming to toast three more points with a small shot of whisky when he returns from Brentford on Tuesday night. The Cardiff City manager takes his team to London on the back of six straight Championship victories – exceeding even the five successive wins that propelled their campaign at the start of the season. Warnock has claimed the likes of leaders Wolves – now just three points above the Bluebirds – and chasers Aston Villa and Fulham shop at Waitrose, compared with his visits to the cut price stores.

Dave Raven set out on his professional career playing alongside the likes of Steven Gerrard, Sami Hyypia and Jamie Carragher for Liverpool. Today, 14 years later, defender Raven, who made four first team appearances for Liverpool, is plying his trade 40 miles down the road from Merseyside and is intent on helping Wrexham earn promotion […]

Sir Steve Redgrave has got a lot to answer for. Having inspired a new generation of British rowers to continue his golden quest for medals in a boat, he is also the man who sent one Welsh athlete’s career careering downhill . . . fast! Not that you will hear any complaints about that from Wales’ latest major medalist, Menna Fitzpatrick. The teenage skier won a silver medal in the women’s visually impaired super-combined which comes after she won bronze in the Super-G a couple of days ago. It means two medals in as many days for the Welsh woman at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang.

Warren Gatland will read the riot act to Liam Williams this week – but won’t drop the Saracens and British & Irish Lions full-back for the final game of the Six Nations against France this weekend. With Wales shooting for second place in the championship, Gatland knows there can be no margin for error against a power-packed French side that put England in their place in Paris on Saturday. Williams made a couple of first-half errors in the 38-14 win over Italy on Sunday and then picked up a yellow card for a head-high tackle on an Italian player when he was over his own line.

Cardiff City will go head-to-head with Swansea City in an FAW Cup final this season. The Bluebirds won 1-0 against Cyncoed to clinch their place against Swansea in the Women’s Cup final. Alana Murphy scored the only goal of the match just before half-time at Rhiw Ddar Stadium, Taffs Well. Cyncoed’s Caitlin Bevan had an […]

Manager Rhys Griffiths and his Penybont team remain top of Nathaniel Car Sales Welsh League Division One, but promotion favourites Llanelli Town are chasing hard. Marcus Griffiths (2) and Owain Warlow scored second half goals for Penybont in their 3-0 win against Port Talbot Town. Llanelli defeated Penybont 1-0 last midweek and followed that with […]

Andy Morrison believes his Connah’s Quay side are in good shape heading into the final stretch of the marathon two-phase JD Welsh Premier League season. Even now half-way through the second phase of the competition, Connah’s Quay, Bala Town and Bangor City are barely separable in their bid to claim the final automatic European qualifying […]

Head coach Nick Wakley has named his women’s squad for the Commonwealth Games Sevens tournament which he reckons could be vital for the game’s future. Five of the 12-player squad that will travel to Australia’s Gold Coast are currently involved in Wales’ Women’s Six Nations campaign: Alisha Butchers, Sioned Harries, Hannah Jones, Jaz Joyce (all Scarlets), and Elinor Snowsill (Dragons).

Melvyn Evans won an event his own rally preparations company was sponsoring yesterday, when the 53-year old Lampeter driver mastered the damp and tricky conditions to win the Port Talbot MC-organised Melvyn Evans Motorsport Tour of Epynt by 39 seconds. Co-driven by Mark Glennerster, Evans repeated his 2012 victory on the event in the same car – a powerful four-wheel drive Subaru Impreza WRC S12b, which proved ideal for the rollercoaster Tarmac roads of the Epynt military range. He was equal fastest with Abergavenny’s Damian Cole on both the opening two stages, but a push on the twisty and technical Burma Road section was the key to success, as he put his foot down and gradually increased his lead over the seven stage event. Cole never put a foot wrong in his Get Connected Ford Fiesta WRC and, despite ripping the handbrake out of the floor on the opening loop of stages, the six-time MSA Asphalt Rally Champion (co-driven for the first time by Jamie Edwards) got his Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship campaign off to a strong start by finishing second.

Celtic Dragons have a new spring in their step after earning back-to-back Vitality Netball Superleague victories. Newly-appointed coach Julie Hoornweg has sent morale and team spirit sky high and her Dragons players have responded in style. They followed a 55-50 win against Surrey Storm by beating Severn Stars 49-40, both at Sport Wales National Centre, […]

Shot-Putter Adele Nicoll is Cardiff Met student with a big future. She narrowly missed out on a place in the Wales’ Commonwealth Games team, but the national u23 record holder and World Youth finalist has her eyes on the 2020 Olympics. Nicoll recently picked up a dominant shot put victory with 14.57m,  to win the British Universities and Colleges Sport Indoor Championships in Sheffield – adding to her impressive medal haul and finishing comfortably ahead of Sam Milner.

Ian Traylor scored both Merthyr Town goals in their 2-1 Southern League away win against Dorchester Town at the Avenue Stadium. The Martyrs earned a third successive Premier Division win and have earned 10 points from their last four fixtures. They now play Royston Town away on Tuesday evening. ‘Traylz’ fired Merthyr ahead after 17 […]

Jenny Nesbitt will make her Commonwealth Games debut for Wales on the Gold Coast, after her late selection to run in the 10,000m. The 22-year-old has been called up following the withdrawl through injury of Dewi Griffiths, who was due to run both the men’s 10,000m and 5,000m. Nesbitt, who is based in Worcester, will join fellow female distance runners Elinor Kirk, Caryl Jones and Melissa Courtney in the Team Wales squad for the Gold Coast, Australia next month.

Matt Parry will return to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in 2018, having agreed to a second year driving the RJN Motorsport-run Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3. The Cardiff-born racer made the switch from a successful single-seater career at the start of 2017, and belied his lack of GT experience to star at the wheel of the team’s #22 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 over the five rounds of the Blancpain Series.

Wales’ leading gymnasts warmed up in style for next month’s Commonwealth Games by picking up medals at the British Championships in Liverpool. In the senior women’s apparatus finals, both Swansea’s Holly Jones and Cardiff’s Maisie Methuen struck gold to give themselves a huge boost prior to leaving for the Gold Coast. Jones won the Vault with 13.825 points after performing two strong vaults to finish ahead of Olympic and World Championship medallist Amy Tinkler, who scored 13.800.

Neil Warnock is threatening to demand a postponement of Cardiff City’s Good Friday match against Burton Albion. The Cardiff City manager is angry that the Football League have scheduled a full afternoon Championship fixture list for March 30 – just two days after a number of his players could be travelling back from international duty. Warnock’s fear is that the tight turnaround and fatigue may effect his possible four-strong international contingent and could undermine their promotion bid.