Simple Verse was a 9/2 winner on Thursday at Doncaster, and the opening Sceptre Stakes on Friday’s card looks a decent betting heat. A Group Three over seven furlongs, Nemoralia trades odds-on favourite after an impressive August win at York that’s earned her a weight penalty for this. She’s very good…
Author: Joel Roberts
1pt win Simple Verse @9/2, 0.5pt win Alyssa @10/1, 15:05 Doncaster, Thursday
Doncaster’s St Leger meeting is underway and last season’s St Leger winner SIMPLE VERSE is back on Town Moor running over the same course and distance as that Classic success. She followed it up with another Group One win in the fillies’ race on Champions Day at Ascot last October, so clearly thrives at…
0.5pt each-way Kachy @40/1, 16:30 Haydock, Saturday
Haydock hosts the Group One 32Red Sprint Cup on Saturday, and July Cup hero Limato bids to confirm his status as the best six-furlong sprinter in Europe. The threat of heavy rain casts doubt over his participation and I do wonder whether his trainer, Henry Candy, is regretting withdrawing last year’s…
1pt win Muthmir @11/4, 15:10 Beverley, Saturday
MUTHMIR is the clear class horse in this year’s Beverley Bullet, a five-furlong Listed sprint. Second in last year’s Group One King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and winner of the Group Two King George Stakes at last year’s Glorious Goodwood, anything like that should be plenty good enough to land…
1pt win Eastern Impact @3/1, 16:10 Newmarket, Saturday
Six furlongs at Newmarket brings out the very best in EASTERN IMPACT – and his recent four-length defeat by the high-class Limato in the Group One July Cup over course and distance looks amongst the strongest form on offer in this Listed contest. With ground to suit he looks a good bet…
1pt win Diploma @7/2, 0.5pt win Yorker @16/1, 14:15 York, Saturday
I’m backing DIPLOMA to win the Group Three at 14:15 at York after she won so easily when last sighted here at the track from another filly, Fireglow, who has since won a competitive race at Goodwood. With ground, track and trip all in her favour she is perhaps generously priced as…
1pt win Mubtasim @5/1, 15:25 York, Saturday
It’s been a really good week with Richard Pankhurst’s 14/1 success at Haydock followed up by a 4/1 win for Seventh Heaven in the Yorkshire Oaks and the brilliant Mecca’s Angel returning a big bet at 9/2 in the Nunthorpe. York’s Ebor meet is always one of my favourites but…
2pts win Mecca's Angel @9/2, 15:40 York, Friday
Potential heavy rain is causing no end of unease in the betting market for the 2016 renewal of the Nunthorpe Stakes, the feature race on York’s Friday card. Arguably the best sprint in the racing calendar, York’s flat and fast five furlongs is all about speed and is always a brilliant…
0.75pt each-way Birchwood @14/1, 15:05 York, Friday
Rain looms at York and the good-to-firm ground could disappear by the time the 15:10 is off on Friday’s card. Nemoralia is favourite for this seven-furlong Group Three thanks to a series of fine placed efforts in Group One company. However the latest was disappointing at Chantilly, a flat track…
1pt win Seventh Heaven @4/1, 1pt win Endless Time @8/1, 15:40 York, Thursday
Day two of York’s Ebor meeting and the Darley Yorkshire Oaks is the highlight, a mile-and-a-half fillies’ Group One. We had the winner last year in Pleascach, but she’s been retired as a broodmare now and twelve go to post to claim her title. Aiden O’Brien is having a particularly…