Newbury hosts a Grade 1 on Saturday, featuring six novice hurdlers and a competitive betting market. Three horses vie for favouritism around the 3/1 mark, with Colin Tizzard’s Kilbricken Storm – who I’m keen take on – winning the battle at 11/4 at the time of writing. In the manner of…
Author: Joel Roberts
7/1 Fox Norton to land the King George - and the Gold Cup!
Eight are declared for the 2017 renewal of Boxing Day’s King George Chase at Kempton, one of the deepest and most competitive in recent memory. A Grade 1 chase over three miles, it’s one of the top races in the jumps calendar and has been won by so many of…
1pt win L'Ami Serge @11/2, 14:25 Ascot, Saturday
Recent evidence suggests Unowhatimeanharry, rising ten years of age, is a declining force in the staying hurdlers division rather than the relentless improver of recent seasons. He won this Grade 1 JLT Long Walk Hurdle last year as well as the stayers hurdle at Punchestown in the spring, but was…
1pt win Momella @11/2, 15:40 Cheltenham, Saturday
I’m following Dan Skelton’s mare MOMELLA as she’s pitched into handicap company in the closing race of Cheltenham Saturday card. Put up on her previous start in graded company, also at Cheltenham, she ran a blinder to finish second to On The Blind Side, a nine-length winner next time out. Back against…
1pt win Clan Des Obeaux @4/1, 13:55 Cheltenham, Saturday
CLAN DES OBEAUX is a deserved favourite for Saturday’s Caspian Caviar Gold Cup over two-and-a-half miles around Cheltenham. His novice chasing form is working out really well with Whisper, who has beaten him less than a length on two occasions in the past year, going so close in the Ladbrokes…
1.5pts win Finian's Oscar @9/4, 13:45 Sandown, Saturday
If the Tingle Creek this year doesn’t look the deepest of renewals, the Grade 1 Henry VIII Novices’ Chase earlier on the card looks vintage with four of the top ten in Cheltenham Festival’s Arkle market going to post. I was a little surprised to see Nicky Henderson’s Brain Power…
1pt win Ar Mad @16/1, 14:55 Sandown, Saturday
For the second year running Willie Mullins and his star chaser Douvan have let down ante-post punters by flirting with participation in the Grade 1 Tingle Creek… before pulling the plug at final declarations. Zzz. Sadly it’s left just Fox Norton as a truly top-class participant in this year’s renewal.…
1pt win Traffic Fluide @33/1, 15:00 Haydock, Saturday
Grade 1 action returns to Britain this Saturday as the opening top-level race of the season, the Betfair Chase, takes centre stage at Haydock. Three-time winner Cue Card would usually be favourite for this race but he’s pushing twelve years old and has fallen on two of his previous three…
0.75pts each-way Theinval @22/1, 14:25 Cheltenham, Saturday
The feature Betvictor Gold Cup on Cheltenham’s Saturday card looks really tricky with no obvious class horse and no horse with obvious claims to being well handicapped either. If there is a class horse it might be Kylemore Lough for new trainer Harry Fry who makes his reappearance and saddles…
1pt win Momella @9/2, 15:35 Cheltenham, Friday
The jumps season slips into top gear tomorrow as Cheltenham hosts the biggest meeting this side of Christmas, the three-day November meeting where many big names will be returning to the track. I think there’s a bet in the closing novices’ hurdle on Friday’s card as the second-favourite Calett Mad,…