Author: Joel Roberts

Richard Hannon’s Marsh Hawk looks good value to outrun her odds in the Group-Three Japan Racing Association Sceptre Stakes, so is worth a small wager at 40/1 – with bigger prices available on Betfair. She’s not fulfilled the promise of her two-year-old campaign, where she won a couple of nice races, including routing…

A chance is taken on Criquette Head-Maarek’s Fontanelice at Longchamp this afternoon. Twice a Group Two winner in Italy, her last three appearances have come at the highest level in the French Classics and Muhaarar’s Prix Maurice De Gheest, so this seven furlong Listed contest represents a significant drop in class. She’s not alone in…

We’re really keen on last year’s second, Balty Boy’s, in the Group Three Betfred Superior Mile on Saturday. Last weekend he wisely swerved an encounter with star three-year-old Kodi Bear at Goodwood and looks set to take his chance again at Haydock. The horse that beat him last year, Captain Cat, did…

The current ante-post favourite for the Group One Betfred Sprint Cup, Danzeno, hasn’t won since June 2014. Second in the betting is the Henry Candy trained Limato, who’s twice aborted European raids in recent weeks due to rain and is an unlikely starter should more arrive at Haydock. With the…

We’re keen to give Andrew Balding’s Scottish another chance in France today after his excellent second to Highland Reel at Goodwood. The two routed the other runners and quickly pulled five lengths clear at the business end of that encounter. We didn’t fancy the winner at all, but he’s since further proved us wrong…

Not a great weekend for racing with just the three Group races in the UK this Saturday. Persistent rain has softened the going around the country, meaning field sizes will be small and good-value big prices hard to come by. Godolphin’s Portamento looks a good bet in the Listed Stobart Club And Shop…

After a successful week at York’s Ebor meet, where fillies where the flavour of the week, we again turn to another fillies’ Group One in France: the nine-furlong Prix Jean Romanet for four-year-olds and up. The going is soft and eleven have been declared, with last year’s winner, Ribbons, heading the market at…

We hit the bar today with Mizzou’s second place in the Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup, beaten by a hugely-improved performance from a horse in the punter-friendly silks of Rich Ricci for Willie Mullins, Max Dynamite. There’s more rain forecast overnight, so despite the scorching forecast for the south of England there’s likely…