Author: Joel Roberts

I’m taking a chance on SWEET SELECTION in the Group Two stayers race (15:40) on Friday’s Doncaster card. She steps right up in trip from 16 furlongs to 18 and is unexposed at this distance. A recent run in handicap company at York certainly suggested she has bags of stamina as she…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…