There’s Group One flat action over in Hong Kong early tomorrow morning, and Royal Ascot flop A SHIN HIKARI looks a big price to bounce back to his brilliant best. He won the Longines Hong Kong Cup last year in brilliant style, defying a wide draw by running away with it from…
Author: Joel Roberts
1pt win Minella Rocco @5/2, 14:40 Aintree, Saturday
Last year’s Grand National winner Many Clouds returns to Aintree for his seasonal reappearance in this Listed three-mile chase – but this slick-jumping nine-year-old isn’t the same horse first time out and isn’t an appealing bet. At 4/1 and behind MINELLA ROCCO in the betting, I reckon the market has this one…
1pt ante-post win Douvan @5/1, Tingle Creek Chase, Sandown, Saturday 3rd December
The best two-mile chasers are set to take centre stage again at Sandown this coming Saturday in the Grade-1 Tingle Creek Chase. Only eight have been declared at this early stage, with Arkle winner DOUVAN left in for Willie Mullins and Rich Ricci. He’s 5/1, and that’s a price well worth taking given…
41/1 Saturday racing treble
We’ve already advised DODGING BULLETS in the 14:05 at Ascot and CUE CARD in the 15:00 at Haydock, but there’s high-class racing across several cards today and I fancy Nicky Henderson’s VANITEUX to make a winning reappearance in the 15:15 Handicap Chase at Ascot. A high-class novice chaser last season, he narrowly lost to…
1pt win Cue Card @2/1, 15:00 Haydock, Saturday
Haydock’s Betfair Chase is the first Grade 1 of the English jumps season, run over three miles of mud, and this year’s renewal will be as testing as it is classy. Dual-winner and reigning champ Cue Card trades favourite after defeat on reappearance to the also-present Irish Cavalier in the…
1pt win Dodging Bullets @11/4, 14:05 Ascot, Saturday
At the weights I fancy ex-Champion-Chaser DODGING BULLETS to land this Ascot Grade 2 chase. His best form is over two miles, where he’s a triple Grade 1 winner was and one of the stars of the 2014/2015 jumps season. Aged eight it’s hard to believe his best days are behind him,…
1pt win Fox Norton @11/4, 13:55 Cheltenham, Sunday
Cheltenham hosts a good-quality card on Sunday, and the Grade 2 Shloer Chase is just one of many hot races. This was the scene of the beginning of the great Sprinter Sacre’s renaissance last season, as he waltzed this on his way to a second Champion Chase crown in March.…
0.5pt each-way Wolf Of Windlesham @40/1, 14:30 Cheltenham, Sunday
I can’t resist throwing a few quid at an old favourite WOLF OF WINDLESHAM in the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday given his huge 40/1 price tag. He’s not old at all in truth, being a four-year-old – who do admittedly not have a good record in the race –…
1pt win Moon Racer @5/2, 12:45 Cheltenham, Sunday
Cheltenham’s opening race on Sunday sees the past two seasons’ Champion Bumper winners renew rivalries after a recent encounter in Perth, where 2014 winner MOON RACER got the better of this year’s victor Ballyandy by three-quarters-of-a-length. That was off level weights yet Moon Racer, trained by David Pipe, concedes 4lbs to…
1pt each-way Frodon @8/1, 0.5pt each-way Sizing Granite @28/1, 14:25 Cheltenham, Saturday
BetVictor now sponsor the feature race of Cheltenham’s Open meeting, the Gold Cup Handicap Chase over two-and-a-half miles. As ever, it looks an extremely-competitive renewal with 3lb separating the seven at the top of the weights, which includes year’s winner Annacotty for Alan King. He won the race off a mark…