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…
Author: Joel Roberts
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…
1pt win Imperial Aviator @11/1, 15:05 York, Wednesday
Aidan O’Brien’s English and Irish Derby second Idaho is the obvious form pick for the Group Two Great Voltigeur Stakes over 12 furlongs on York’s Wednesday card. He’s priced up like a sure thing as the odds-on favourite but such profiles so often deceive. Given he rode him on his…
0.75pt each-way Wings Of Desire @14/1, 15:40 York, Wednesday
A really strong renewal of the Group One Juddmonte International Stakes, the feature race on day one of York’s Ebor meet and officially the highest rated horse race in the world thanks to its illustrious role of honour. All the winners of the major middle distance Group One races in…
1pt ante-post win Goldream @14/1, Nunthorpe Stakes, York, Friday
A big week of racing ahead with York hosting the Ebor Festival and its series of major Group One races. Friday’s Nunthorpe Stakes is often the best betting heat with a big field usually confirmed to fly down the flat five-furlong sprint track, and last year’s heroine Mecca’s Angel is…
0.75pt each-way Esoterique @16/1, 14:55 Deauville, Sunday
Another Sunday, another Group One at Deauville, north France, this time the turn of the milers in the Prix Jacques Le Marois. 2000 Guineas and St James’ Palace Stakes winner Galileo Gold is turned out fairly quickly after a narrow defeat by The Gurkha in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood.…