Author: Joel Roberts

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…

Fifteen runners for the Irish Derby and a favourite that only ran eight days ago suggests this is a ripe for a bet. Clearly Santiago is very good and we like him – he was a winning tip at Royal Ascot last Friday – but this is a deeper race…

With the Coolmore horse propping the market up at 6/4, you’re getting some massive prices on the rest of the Queen Mary field so it’s ripe for a bet. The favourite is by War Front and that’s always a red flag to me on softer ground, for all there are…

I think the American raider SHARING probably has the best form in the Coronation Stakes, but she’s 13/2. She won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last autumn and beat all the European raiders who boasted some of the best of their domestic form, so her form looks strong. She’s…

The time is right for SANDS OF MALI to bounce back to his Group One-winning best over the same course and distance of his finest hour in the Champions Sprint. He’s been labeled a mudlark but has plenty of form on faster ground, including when 2nd in the Commonwealth Cup…

Wesley Ward is always full of enthusiasm for his Royal Ascot chances but he said of his Norfolk Stakes chance GOLDEN PAL ‘I really think he’s one of the best horses I’ve ever brought to Royal Ascot – believe me, this horse is the real deal’. Bizarrely for Ward’s best…

FANNY LOGAN is a right good bet in the Hardwicke Stakes at 11/1. She gets the mares’ allowance against the colts and is proven on softer going which many of the market principles, including the favourite Antony Van Dyck, are known to dislike. John Gosden has been in good form…