Author: Joel Roberts

DREAMFIELD looks a banker for Listed success at Newmarket on Saturday, provided he can hold form with the dangerous Limato, who has been a shadow of his former self this season. Dreamfield has finished second in the Wokingham and sixth in a July Cup this season, beating some very good horses…

We can take on Beat The Bank in this Group Two at Goodwood, where he was a bit disappointing on his previous start in the Group One Sussex Stakes. He carries a Group Two penalty and that leaves him vulnerable, though he is the clear form horse. Following Stormy Antarctic…

Put a gun to my head and ask what my favourite race of the flat season is, and I might just say the flying five furlongs of the Group One Nunthorpe Stakes at York’s Ebor meeting. Memories of Sole Power’s twin successes; that brilliant year where Mecca’s Angel ran down…

Until they start winning again, I’m not going to be backing any of Aidan O’Brien’s runners at York this week given the yard has been under a cloud with a well-documented illness affecting the horses. That includes Kew Gardens who was forced to miss the King George just as his…

York’s Ebor meeting, their biggest of the year, kicks off on Wednesday and the Group One Juddmonte International Stakes is the highlight of a top-class card. We’ve a proper renewal to look forwards to with winners of the 2000 Guineas, Dubai Turf, Prince Of Wales’ Stakes, King George, Eclipse, Irish…

York’s big Ebor meeting kicks off on Wednesday, which is a firm favourite of ours having provided plenty of winners down the years, including our biggest ever in 100/1 shot Arabian Queen back in 2015. Final declarations for Wednesday have been made today (Monday 20th) with Cracksman the biggest withdrawal…

We love Newbury’s Hungerford Stakes having won both editions we’ve tipped, courtesy of 11/1 Adaay in 2015 and 14/1 Richard Pankhurst in 2016. The 2018 renewal might just have two standout bets in a typically juicy renewal from a betting perspective. I would have liked some soft ground for Librisa…

Alpha Centauri has been the star of the 2018 flat season, landing the Irish 1000 Guineas before breaking the track record in the Coronation Stakes and easily completing her Group One treble in the Falmouth Stakes. She has no doubt benefited from the hot and dry summer as her back-form…

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…