The improving BROOME looks the one to be on in the Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere on Arc day at Longchamp. 10/1 for the O’Brien yard’s number one hope looks simply too good to ignore, and he’s got to be well fancied given he’s his yard’s sole representative in a race they…
Author: Joel Roberts
1pt win Laugh A Minute @5/1, 15:00 Ascot, Saturday
Limato has bounced back to form by winning back-to-back Listed races, but he’s still a long way below the Group One winner we saw a few years ago and there’s plenty of rain forecast for his assignment at Ascot today, which takes away from his chance. He’s still got a…
1pt win Loxley @100/30, 15:30 Longchamp, Saturday
I’m not really sure what Charlie Appleby was thinking running LOXLEY in the St Leger, after saying he wouldn’t try the trip again after he was beaten at Newmarket earlier this season by Wells Farhh Go. I hope that non-staying St Leger performance hasn’t left a mark as I’m certain he’s the…
1pt each-way Clemmie @15/2, 15:15 Newmarket, Saturday
This looks a trappy renewal of the Sun Chariot Stakes, a Group One for fillies over the Guineas course and distance at Newmarket, as there are an awful lot of live chances and we have significant previous with the favourite. Wind Chimes has been our bogey horse this season as…
1pt ante-post win Roaring Lion @8/1, QEII Stakes, Ascot, 20th October
Connections have raised the possibility of star three-year-old ROARING LION running in the QEII on Champions Day at Ascot, which looks highly likely given he hails from the same yard as Cracksman, the reigning Champion Stakes champ, as it’s unlikely they’ll take each other on. A Group One win at a…
1pt each-way Cape Of Good Hope @6/1, 13:50 Newmarket, Saturday
This is the time of year the Aidan O’Brien yard’s juveniles hit top gear, as his progeny of champion sire Galileo begin to boss the staying two-year-olds divisions. There’s top-class racing at Newmarket tomorrow and plenty of sons and grandsons of the late Scatt Daddy are amongst the favourites, including…
Newbury Saturday tips: Extra Elusive (8/1) and Equilateral (9/2)
Newbury’s 2.20 can go to EXTRA ELUSIVE at a very backable price of 8/1. He beat some good horses on soft ground as a juvenile, so shouldn’t fear any rain, and looked dynamite last time out on the all-weather when quickening eye-catchingly well off a slow pace. This looks winnable as the…
1pt win Naturally High @14/1, 16:10 Longchamp
NATURALLY HIGH can land the Group Two Prix Neil and put a disappointing run in the French Derby behind him. Returned home very sick from that encounter, I am drawing a line through that run and instead focusing on the promise he showed when coming from last to first in…
1pt win Unfortunately @16/1, 14:25 Doncaster, Saturday
Karl Burke’s UNFORTUNATELY hasn’t had a great season, after promising so much as a juvenile when winning the Prix Morny. He missed the break in the Commonwealth Cup and couldn’t get competitive, while his Group One assignment at Deauville was more than underwhelming – he came home 10th in both…
0.75pts each-way Athena @50/1, 18:35 Leopardstown, Saturday
Eclipse and Juddmonte International winner Roaring Lion heads over to Ireland to take on Coolmore’s best in the Group One Irish Champion Stakes. Qatar Racing’s colt has proven himself to be very good at this 10-furlong trip, and it would take a leap of faith and a fair few excuses…