Author: Joel Roberts

The Curragh hosts Ireland’s first Classic of the 2018 flat season with the 2000 Guineas over a mile taking centre stage, where English Guineas fourth and sixth, Elarqam and Gustav Klimt re-oppose. The market has been topsy turvy in the last week as Ryan Moore has opted to ride champion…

The race of the day this Saturday might be the Group Two Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock for three-year-old sprinters, a trial for next month’s Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot. It’s a tough task picking between the top four in the betting, as they’re all much of a muchness and…

STEPHENSONS ROCKET is a strong fancy on Sandown’s Thursday evening card, stepping back in trip to a mile – a particularly stiff mile I might add – having failed to get home last time out at Newmarket. He traveled like the best horse in the race in that ten-furlong affair, hitting…

There’s Group One action at Newbury this Saturday as the older horses tackle the one-mile Lockinge Stakes, this year – unlike last – run on fast ground and without a clear Group One miler at the top of the market. It’s an interesting betting heat with 16 runners to consider,…

We’ve not got a lot of evidence to go by, but NORDIC LIGHTS fits the profile of an improving, unexposed horse at a nice price in the Dante at York on Thursday. Unbeaten in two starts, he could be anything at this stage as he’s one of the first crop of three-year-olds…

TASLEET has to be backed at 9/2 to record back-to-back successes in the Clipper Logistics Stakes at York on Wednesday. He bolted up on soft ground last year to earn a reputation for being a mudlark, but an excellent second on lightning fast ground at Royal Ascot rubbished that theory and…

We’ve had a tough time of it lately with 14/1, 12/1, 9/1, 6/1 and 2/1 selections coming second in April alone, as well as Al Boum Photo and Bellshill throwing away big races at the last when booked for victory. I really do feel jumps racing is really tough on…

FARCLAS was very good winner of the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham and I’m not sure what logic makes him third favourite behind Mr Adjudicator and Stormy Ireland, who looked well held at Cheltenham – it’s really bizzare. 3/1 is a fantastic price and I see absolutely no reason not to go…

Old favourite WOLF OF WINDLESHAM returns from a break off a lenient mark of 132 in the closing handicap hurdle of Sandown’s Saturday card. Information regarding his absence is hard to come by but he’s definitely well handicapped if in the same form as 2016, when he won the opener of this…