We’re set for a rare soggy start to Royal Ascot and the deteriorating going has had a big impact on the betting market for the opening Queen Anne Stakes, won last year by superstar miler Solow for France, in what’s possibly the race of the week. A setback has prevented a…
Category: Winners
1pt win Maljaa @9/1, 0.5pt EW Mukaynis @14/1, 15:45 Epsom Downs, 'Dash'
The 5f Epsom ‘Dash’ is regarded as one of the fastest sprint contests in the racing calendar year, with a devilishly quick descent to contend with and 18 runners going to post this year. The ground was definitely riding on the slow side yesterday, so I do not expect any…
2016 Epsom Derby Selections: Cloth Of Stars, Harzand, Across The Stars
It’s Derby day at Epsom, the second and most valuable of three British Classics for colts, and 16 three-year-olds are declared to seal their future stud values with victory. It’s been a race kind to punters in recent years with favourites Golden Horn, Australia and Camelot all obliging at short odds – but…
0.5pts each-way Architecture @16/1, 16:30 Epsom, Friday
The Oaks, the fillies’ equivalent of Saturday’s Derby Stakes, takes centre stage on Epsom’s Friday card with the nine declared looking for Classic glory. Aiden O’Brien’s Minding has already tasted it when running away with the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, but she met defeat in the Irish version two weeks ago…
1pt win Usherette @7/1, 14:25 Newmarket, Sunday
A really strong renewal of the Group Two Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket, with Group One winners Amazing Maria and Arabian Queen making their seasonal debuts. Neither are favourite though – that accolade goes to John Gosden’s Jazzi Top, who looks ridiculously short in the betting considering she’s not had a…
1pt each-way Massaat @14/1, 15:45 Newmarket, Saturday
On the same day Punchestown rounds off a stellar jumps season, Newmarket kicks off the flat season proper with the first Classic and first Group One, the 2000 Guineas. In case you don’t know, it’s the mile version of the Derby and open only to three-year-olds, the Classic generation. Horses only…
0.75pt each-way Baden @16/1, 16:20 Punchestown, Wednesday
Zabana continued our fine recent form when scoring at 5/1 on Tuesday’s Punchestown card to go along with recent winners Ch’tibello (8/1), Wolf Of Windlesham (9/1) and Up For Review (9/2). The theme of Tuesday was short-priced Willie Mullins favourites getting turned over, with the unbeaten Yorkhill not even placing,…
1pt win Zabana @5/1, 18:40 Punchestown, Tuesday
Willie Mullins’s Outlander has got to be taken on on the opening day of this year’s Punchestown Festival. He’s 11/4 for this Grade 1 staying chase after falling at the Cheltenham Festival and, ten days later, having come second in Grade 1 company to Kylemore Lough at Fairyhouse. Visually, I’ve…
0.75pt each-way Wolf Of Windlesham @9/1, 14:20 Sandown, Saturday
Our first winner of the jumps season, WOLF OF WINDLESHAM, is hard to ignore at 9/1 in this juvenile handicap hurdle. He won that race at Cheltenham in November from the two placed horses in the Fred Winter at the Festival, Romain De Senam and Coo Star Sivola, who are now…
1pt win Up For Review @9/2, 15:15 Perth, Wednesday
In something of a rarity, the British trainers’ championship is turning into a thriller this year, with Ireland’s Willie Mullins, dominant at the Cheltenham and Aintree festivals, going all out to wrestle the title off Paul Nicholls, who’s won it nine of the past ten seasons. Nicholls is absent from…