Charbel looks a very short price to win the big two-mile novices’ chase on Aintree’s Grand National card, and I’m keen to take him on. He fell a couple out when attempting to beat the brilliant Altior in the Arkle, and such jumping errors are reason enough to doubt the…
Author: Joel Roberts
1pt win Fox Norton @4/1, 0.5pt each-way Josses Hill @14/1, 15:25 Aintree, Friday
Tea For Two and Lizzie Kelly continued our strong form by following up Vivlos’s 25/1 win at Meydan with an 18/1 success in the Grade 1 Bowl on the opening day of Aintree’s Grand National meeting. There’s plenty of Grade 1 action on Friday’s card with the Melling Chase over…
1pt win Moon Racer @4/1, 14:20 Aintree, Friday
The first Grade 1 on Friday’s Aintree card sees the Supreme Novices’ third River Wylde lead a market of nine. Two miles is the trip and it’s good ground, whereas the times were slow on the opening day of Cheltenham this year, suggesting River Wylde will get improved conditions. That may…
0.5pt win Tea For Two @18/1, 14:50 Aintree, Thursday
Round two of the spring festivals starts today with Aintree hosting four Grade 1 races at its Grand National meeting. The feature race is the Bowl, a three-mile Grade 1 chase with practically no resemblance to its Cheltenham Festival equivalent the Gold Cup. That’s because the ground is typically quicker…
0.5pt each-way Vivlos @25/1, 15:30 Meydan, Saturday
The Dubai Turf (15:30, Meydan) looks a hot renewal this year with plenty of Group One winners having a crack, yet the favourite Zarak is not one of them and has his place in the market because of regal breeding and potential. Perhaps that’s a little unfair, as he twice…
2pts win Postponed @5/2, 16:05 Meydan, Saturday
The jump racing season has crescendoed with Cheltenham Festival a thing of the past and Aintree’s Grand National meeting fast approaching, but the first major flat racing card of the year takes centre stage this Saturday over in Dubai, where the massive riches of World Cup night are up for grabs. Whilst…
2pts win Native River @5/1, 15:30 Cheltenham, Friday
The Cheltenham Gold Cup, jump racing’s blue ribband, takes centre stage on St Patrick’s Day this Friday without two of the season’s staying chasing stars in King George and World Hurdle winner Thistlecrack and ex-Grand National hero Many Clouds. The two locked horns in a titanic battle on trials day with…
1pt each-way Ivanovich Gorbatov @11/1, 14:10 Cheltenham, Friday
And just like that, it’s Gold Cup day. Normal service was restored at Cheltenham on Thursday as Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins notched a four-timer to refill wounded punters’ pockets, whilst the Irish dominance of this Festival continued. They had never won the Prestbury Cup before Any Currency’s disqualification gave…
1pt each-way treble: Yorkhill (13:30), Unowhatimeanharry (15:30) and Let's Dance (16:50) @14.84 with SkyBet
On Cheltenham’s Thursday card last year, Vautour, Thistlecrack and Limini all won by substantial margins to smash the bookies in one of the most obvious trebles in recent memory. They say you shouldn’t tip a treble made up of short prices to try and enhance those odds towards something backable,…
0.5pt each-way Alary @33/1, 14:50 Cheltenham, Thursday
Gordon Elliott’s shadow has crept up on Willie Mullins’s domestic champion trainer hopes this season, but few would have predicted the contrast in fortunes between the two at this year’s Cheltenham Festival – a meeting Mullins has farmed in recent years – with Elliott running away with the race to be…