Potential heavy rain is causing no end of unease in the betting market for the 2016 renewal of the Nunthorpe Stakes, the feature race on York’s Friday card. Arguably the best sprint in the racing calendar, York’s flat and fast five furlongs is all about speed and is always a brilliant…
Day: 19 August 2016
0.75pt each-way Birchwood @14/1, 15:05 York, Friday
Rain looms at York and the good-to-firm ground could disappear by the time the 15:10 is off on Friday’s card. Nemoralia is favourite for this seven-furlong Group Three thanks to a series of fine placed efforts in Group One company. However the latest was disappointing at Chantilly, a flat track…
1pt win Seventh Heaven @4/1, 1pt win Endless Time @8/1, 15:40 York, Thursday
Day two of York’s Ebor meeting and the Darley Yorkshire Oaks is the highlight, a mile-and-a-half fillies’ Group One. We had the winner last year in Pleascach, but she’s been retired as a broodmare now and twelve go to post to claim her title. Aiden O’Brien is having a particularly…