Author: Joel Roberts

1m  Prix Rothschild (Group 1) (3yo+ Fillies & Mares) (Straight Course) (Turf)  (3yo+) Only six runners and I think that might suit SPEAK OF THE DEVIL‘s hold-up tactics, as she shouldn’t meet traffic problems. She was last off the bridle in the French Oaks and clearly didn’t stay, but she looked the…

7f Saint Clair Oak Tree Stakes (Group 3) (Fillies & Mares) (Class 1) (3yo+) This has to be a betting race as I can’t have One Master drawn one on what may be very fast ground over a turning seven furlongs that will undoubtedly produce hard luck stories. She’s a very short price…

6f  Qatar Richmond Stakes (Group 2) (Colts & Geldings)  (Class 1) (2yo) We’re looking for a hat-trick in this race having tipped Golden Horde and Land Force to win the last two renewals. Yazaman is the right favourite but races on the fastest ground he’s experienced, and I’m taking him on with GUSSY…

1m4f (1m3f218y) John Pearce Racing Gordon Stakes (Group 3) (Class 1) (3yo) This looks a trappy race. The Goodwood factor alone gives them all a chance so I wouldn’t be in a hurry to back English King at skinny odds, for all he is the right favourite. I backed MOGUL in the Derby and…

This is a proper Group One with the Irish and English Guineas winners taking on the older generation’s leading milers Circus Maximus and Mohaather. It’s difficult to say who should be favourite as the form-lines don’t cross, but I do think the bet in this race is obvious. KAMEKO shouldn’t…

This looks like a race that could throw up a big-priced winner. I’m backing two horses that bolted up on their most recent starts.CHINDIT did it very easily on debut. Last off the bridle, showing a good turn of foot and hitting the line hard, what’s not to like? He’s…

This looks another good betting race as we have an odds-on favourite who isn’t nearly as solid as the betting suggests. Terebellum was very unlucky not to win the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot and her form is clearly very good, but it looked a particularly weak renewal and…

I suspect we can get the odds-on favourite beaten here, for all he’s looked classy in his two visits to the track. He is priced on potential rather than form, and that’s always a signal the market has it wrong. A case can be made for all the opposition being…

I had a look at the Eclipse market last night and concluded the bookies had it about right with Enable around evens, Ghaiyyath 5/2 and JAPAN around 4/1. I’d be hypocritical, then, if I didn’t now say that the 6/1 available about Japan isn’t a good bet. Enable is vulnerable…

I suspect English King might drift as favourite for the Derby because of his bad draw and money for other horses. At 7/2 I’m happy to leave him alone. Guineas winner Kameko is up against it and it feels hard to believe a horse could break the 2,000 Guineas track…