Author: Joel Roberts

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…

The Windsor Castle Stakes looks an tough punting conundrum this year with 28 runners over five furlongs on fast ground. Here’s my shortlist: Mutawaffer – 10/1 Trained by spring king Charlie Hills and by a notable sire of two-year-olds, Kodiac, this colt bolted up at Goodwood over six furlongs and…

John Gosden and Frankie Dettori have combined to win several times this week already, and they team up again with ANGEL’S HIDEAWAY in the opener on Friday’s Royal Ascot card. It looks a good renewal of the six-furlong Albany Stakes for filles, and Aidan O’Brien dominates the market with Just Wonderful, the…

The ‘Ascot Derby’ or King Edward VIII Stakes looks a good competitive renewal with Derby sixth Delano Roosevelt trading favourite. I’m not convinced he truly wants a mile-and-a-half and I’m not sure Ryan Moore partnering him is as big a tip as it might seem. Aidan O’Brien is firing three…

We’re treated to a tasty renewal of the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on Friday as three Guineas winners and the leading juvenile filly of 2017 clash in a race that should clarify the pecking order. I’ll start with Clemmie, who trades second favourite, as vibes have not been good…

The Norfolk Stakes over five furlongs opens Royal Ascot’s Thursday card, and I can’t really work out why Kochek is favourite after not winning last time out in a bunched finish, which usually suggests the runners were closely matched. Hardly stand-out form, then, and I’m not too excited by Wesley…