Author: Joel Roberts

There’s a nice Listed race in France at Deauville today where the highly-rated Loxley represents this flat season’s star trainer Charlie Appleby and Godolphin. Joining him is stablemate Zaman, who we’ve tipped the last two times he’s run, the most recent being just last week at Goodwood where he finished…

We can forgive ZAMAN for not placing at Newmarket when advised each-way at 40/1 last month, as that was his reappearance on a British track and could now improve for the run at a track he’s proven at. He chased home Expert Eye, second in yesterday’s Sussex Stakes, in a…

BILLESDON BROOK is a fairly confident selection for Thursday’s Group One Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood – a track she’s got all-important course form at having won twice there before. A surprise but good winner of the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket – form that’s worked out well – she was a…

Richard Fahey runs two in the Group Two Richmond Stakes over six furlongs at Goodwood on Thursday, and we tipped both of them for separate races during Royal Ascot. Charming Kid let us down when behind Shang Shang Shang in a fillies’ Group Two over five furlongs but left that…

Royal Ascot winner Without Parole bids for back-to-back Group One successes in the Sussex Stakes over a mile at Goodwood on Wednesday, but I wasn’t particularly impressed by his win in the St James’ Palace Stakes so I’m taking him on. The round course was tough for closers all week…

Reigning champion Harry Angel misses the July Cup after failing to recover from an injury sustained in the starting stalls at Royal Ascot, leaving his Godolphin teammate Blue Point, the King’s Stand winner, top of the market at a general 3/1. Blue Point was a good two-year-old and high class…

Saturday’s big race is the Coral Eclipse over ten furlongs at Sandown, where the Classic generation, including three of the first four home in the Derby, take on the older horses for the first time at Group One level. The market is expecting the three-year-olds to dominate and it’s no…

Saturday’s feature race at Royal Ascot is the Diamond Jubilee Stakes over six furlongs for older horses, and the 2018 renewal is brilliantly international with runners from Britain, Ireland, France, America and Australia. Group One sprints are hard to dissect at the best of times, so the international flavour makes…