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…
Author: Joel Roberts
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.…
1pt win Richard Pankhurst @14/1, 16:10 Newbury, Saturday
York’s Ebor Festival looms large next week and we’ll be hoping to repeat last year’s red-hot August form, which included an 85/1 upset in the Juddmonte International, an 8/1 win in the Yorkshire Oaks and 10/1 and 11/1 victories on Saturday’s card at Newbury. Adaay was the winner of the…
1pt win Amabilis @9/2, 14:30 Newbury, Saturday
Five two-year-olds go to post for this seven-furlong Listed contest at Newbury and the once-raced maiden winner Escobar trades 6/4 favourite for Hugo Palmer and Frankie Dettori. That’s a very short price for a horse who’s achieved very little, so we’ll take him on with Ralph Beckett’s filly AMABILIS. At 9/2 she…
1pt win Gold-Fun @5/1, 14:15 Deauville, Sunday
There are no domestic Group One races this weekend but over in France Deauville hosts the Prix Maurice de Gheest won last year by Europe’s Champion Sprinter Muhaarar. He’s retired to stud now, opening up this year’s renewal and, as a result, 16 have been declared. The horse I want to…
1pt win Volta @7/1, 15:15 Deauville, Sunday
Deauville’s Prix Rothschild, a mile Group One for fillies, begins a month of top-class Sunday action at the northern France track. This year’s renewal looks red hot as reigning champ Amazing Maria is as big as 18/1 to repeat the feat. That’d be a fantastic price had she not disappointed last time…
1pt win Marsha @11/2 or best morning price, 0.5pt each-way Ajaya @28/1, 15:45 Goodwood, Friday
Race of the day at Goodwood on Friday looks to be the five-furlong Group Two King George Stakes, where a big and competitive field has assembled with plenty of class. Course specialist Take Cover, winner of this in 2014 and a neck second last year, is drawn in stall 11 and…
1pt win Thikriyaat @11/4, 14:35 Goodwood, Friday
Group Three action at Goodwood and if official ratings are to be believed then Emotionless should win this in a procession, such is the lofty mark he earned after routing a Doncaster Group Two field last year. By Sharmadal, he should love the prevalent good ground at Goodwood and his half-sister…
1pt win Intelligence Cross @9/2, 14:35 Goodwood, Thursday
The 14:25 Qatar Richmond Stakes on Thursday’s Glorious Goodwood card looks a really hot renewal with recent July Stakes winner and Coventry Stakes second Mehmas not even second favourite. The favourite looks certain to be Godolphin’s Sharmadal colt Blue Point for Charlie Appleby, who looked brilliant in winning by 11 lengths…
1.5pt win Big Orange @4/1 or best morning price, 15:10 Goodwood, Thursday
A year on since his triumph in the race last season, BIG ORANGE looks to have a big chance of repeating the trick in the two-mile Goodwood Cup after warming up in fine style by beating the classy The Grey Gatsby in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket’s July meeting. He…