Alpha Centauri has been the star of the 2018 flat season, landing the Irish 1000 Guineas before breaking the track record in the Coronation Stakes and easily completing her Group One treble in the Falmouth Stakes. She has no doubt benefited from the hot and dry summer as her back-form…
1pt win Connect @10/1, 15:20 Deauville, Saturday
There’s a nice Listed race in France at Deauville today where the highly-rated Loxley represents this flat season’s star trainer Charlie Appleby and Godolphin. Joining him is stablemate Zaman, who we’ve tipped the last two times he’s run, the most recent being just last week at Goodwood where he finished…
0.75pts each-way Silent Echo @11/1, 0.75pts each-way Glenamoy Lad @14/1, 15:40 Goodwood, Saturday
There is a slight sense of deja vu in this year’s Stewards’ Cup with the same connections as 2016 winner Dancing Star entering the progressive filly, Foxtrot Lady. She has a very similar profile to her half-sister, albeit has arguably achieved more at the same stage of her career. Her credentials are…
0.75pts each-way Zaman @16/1, 13:50 Goodwood, Thursday
We can forgive ZAMAN for not placing at Newmarket when advised each-way at 40/1 last month, as that was his reappearance on a British track and could now improve for the run at a track he’s proven at. He chased home Expert Eye, second in yesterday’s Sussex Stakes, in a…
1.5pts win Billesdon Brook @9/1, 15:35 Goodwood, Thursday
BILLESDON BROOK is a fairly confident selection for Thursday’s Group One Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood – a track she’s got all-important course form at having won twice there before. A surprise but good winner of the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket – form that’s worked out well – she was a…
1pt win Land Force @6/1, 15:00 Goodwood, Thursday
Richard Fahey runs two in the Group Two Richmond Stakes over six furlongs at Goodwood on Thursday, and we tipped both of them for separate races during Royal Ascot. Charming Kid let us down when behind Shang Shang Shang in a fillies’ Group Two over five furlongs but left that…
1pt win Orbaan @25/1, 15:35 Goodwood, Wednesday
Royal Ascot winner Without Parole bids for back-to-back Group One successes in the Sussex Stakes over a mile at Goodwood on Wednesday, but I wasn’t particularly impressed by his win in the St James’ Palace Stakes so I’m taking him on. The round course was tough for closers all week…
2pts win Angel's Hideaway @4/1, 13:50 Ascot, Saturday
ANGEL’S HIDEAWAY looks the form horse in the opener on Ascot’s Saturday card, and 4/1 looks to have underestimated her chance. Ahead of her in the market are an impressive maiden winner in Scintilating and a Listed winner Royal Intervention, who looks very short at sub-2/1 – they both do.…
1pt win Limato @12/1, 14:15 Newmarket, Saturday
Reigning champion Harry Angel misses the July Cup after failing to recover from an injury sustained in the starting stalls at Royal Ascot, leaving his Godolphin teammate Blue Point, the King’s Stand winner, top of the market at a general 3/1. Blue Point was a good two-year-old and high class…
Newmarket day one tips: Wells Farhh Go (15/2) and Zaman (40/1)
WELLS FARHH GO was an eye-catcher at Royal Ascot, attempting tactics which hadn’t worked for any runner on the round course the whole week: coming from off the pace on fast ground. He did make up ground at the finish and stayed on strongly to suggest the extra furlong of…