Cheltenham’s opening race on Sunday sees the past two seasons’ Champion Bumper winners renew rivalries after a recent encounter in Perth, where 2014 winner MOON RACER got the better of this year’s victor Ballyandy by three-quarters-of-a-length. That was off level weights yet Moon Racer, trained by David Pipe, concedes 4lbs to…
Author: Joel Roberts
1pt each-way Frodon @8/1, 0.5pt each-way Sizing Granite @28/1, 14:25 Cheltenham, Saturday
BetVictor now sponsor the feature race of Cheltenham’s Open meeting, the Gold Cup Handicap Chase over two-and-a-half miles. As ever, it looks an extremely-competitive renewal with 3lb separating the seven at the top of the weights, which includes year’s winner Annacotty for Alan King. He won the race off a mark…
0.5pt each-way East Indies @14/1, 12:40 Cheltenham, Saturday
The jumps season moves up another gear this weekend with Cheltenham’s Open meeting, arguably the biggest race day this side of Christmas. These pages won Saturday’s opening juvenile hurdle last year with an ex-flat horse and 12/1-shot in Wolf Of Windlesham, ridden by Joshua Moore – and at a big price and with…
1pt win Lady Eli @3/1, 0.5pt each-way Catch A Glimpse @20/1, 19:43 Santa Anita, Saturday
At 3/1 I fancy LADY ELI to land the Breeders’ Cup Filly And Mare Turf after proving her effectiveness at the Santa Anita track when winning the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf two seasons ago. Injury interrupted her three-year-old career but she got back to winning ways last time out at Belmont Park, beating…
Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and Turf Mile selections, Santa Anita, Saturday
Day two of the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita, Los Angeles, and Aidan O’Brien has sent his Washington DC on a raid to collect the spoils in the Turf Sprint. A rare winner, Washington DC has run with huge credit in sprints from five to six furlongs this season and…
1pt win La Coronel @9/1, 1pt win Victory To Victory @14/1, 22:50 Santa Anita, Friday
Britain’s flat season has come to a close but, over in Los Angeles, Santa Anita is hosting the Breeders’ Cup, America’s biggest race meet. The weekend hosts a whopping 13 Grade 1 races and often attracts some Europe’s finest equine talent – particularly those horses who love summer ground. Santa…
1pt win Ballybolley @4/1, 13:55 Ascot, Saturday
Ascot’s flat season has come to a close but the jumps are back and Saturday’s card at the track if full of old favourites. I like the chances of BALLYBOLLEY in the opening handicap chase as Nigel Twiston-Davies’s gelding gets his preferred good ground and arrives in decent form after two runs…
0.75pt each-way Diego Du Charmil @7/1, 15:00 Ascot, Saturday
Paul Nicholls’s DIEGO DU CHARMIL looks a solid bet at 7/1 in the William Hill Handicap Hurdle after an impressive winning reappearance at Chepstow. He won the Fred Winter at the Cheltenham Festival off a mark of 133 on his British début, and aged four is still very much on the…
1pt win Vibrato Valtat @6/1, 15:50 Aintree, Sunday
A really competitive renewal of the Old Roan Chase at Aintree, a Grade 2 handicap featuring several Grade 1 winners from recent seasons. It’s racing’s equivalent of silly season right now with match fitness anyone’s guess and horses starting their long path towards the spring festivals. Many will be using…
0.5pt win Ceporine @33/1, 15:00 Cheltenham, Saturday
The jumps are back at Cheltenham as The Showcase meeting kicks off the new season, and it’s a treacherous time of year for punters with horses lacking fitness as they return from summers off. There might be a bet in the 15:00 Masterson Holdings Hurdle with the 6/4 favourite Adrien Du…