Godolphin’s TRYSTER has been given the perfect draw in stall two for his tilt at the Group One Dubai Turf at Meydan. His outstanding turn of foot has seen him rack up a hat-trick of wins – the last two coming at Meydan in fine style (watch them below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gD6tRtD4QU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gD6tRtD4QU…
Author: Joel Roberts
1pt win Sole Power @13/2, 1pt win Lady Shipman @16/1, 14:10 Meydan, Saturday
It’s World Cup night in Dubai and Sole Power is back to defend his title in the Al Quoz Sprint, over his favourite trip of five furlongs (watch last year’s renewal above). He’s been there and done it before, and is the first name on the shortlist after being so…
2pts win Townshend @5/2, 15:15 Kempton
Willie Mullins’s horses were in fine form at the Cheltenham Festival, as he and Ruby Walsh racked up seven wins. One horse we’d been keeping close track of after his stable tour and a promising stable début behind Squouateur at Fairyhouse is TOWNSHEND, who was expected to run in yesterday’s County…
0.5pt win Bachasson @40/1, 0.5pt win West Approach @100/1, 14:50 Cheltenham
Despite the presence of the unbeaten Barters Hill at the top of the market, the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle looks wide open this year and there’s every chance it’ll go to an outsider. We’ve already advised WEST APPROACH at 100/1 in the hope he’ll continue improving and progress into a staying chaser close…
1.5pt win Don Cossack @3/1, Cheltenham Gold Cup
The bookie bashing continued through Thursday’s Festival card with Vautour, Limini and Thistlecrack all obliging at short odds, costing them fortunes. As for my RSA Chase pick Black Hercules easily winning the JLT intead… let’s not go there. It’s Gold Cup day and we have a proper renewal to get stuck into,…
1pt win Zubayr @6/1, 0.5pt win Leoncavallo @25/1, 13:30 Cheltenham
The Triumph Hurdle is the championship event for juvenile hurdlers, open to four-year-olds and run over two miles on today’s quick ground. It often pays to follow the money horse, with the late Our Connor and Peace And Co obliged as short-priced favourites in recent years. The money has flown all season…
1pt win Bristol De Mai @5/1, 13:30 Cheltenham, Thursday
The New One may have flopped again but I doubt his trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies envisaged his Festival week going this well by the half-way point. The second half of the week could get off to a flyer if his BRISTOL DE MAI can justify ante-post favouritism in the opening JLT Novices’ Chase and notch…
1pt each-way Josses Hill w/o Vautour @12/1, 14:50 Cheltenham, Thursday
Through my eyes, the totally inexcusable bollocks that Rich Ricci and Willie Mullins came up with when justifying their switching of Vautour from the Gold Cup to Thursday’s Ryanair takes the gloss off his inevitable win. They should have run him in the Champion Chase. Water under the bridge and he’s now…
0.5pt each-way Kings Palace @12/1, 0.5pt each-way Ballynagour @25/1, 16:10 Cheltenham
Course and good ground form has been absolutely crucial this week at the Festival, with conditions faster than anything found in the form book this season. Almost everything fancied that’s shown its best on softer ground has been left trailing, with the likes of Yanworth, No More Heroes and Un…
1pt each-way treble Yanworth, More Of That, Un De Sceaux @13/1
It was business as usual for Grade 1 king Willie Mullins on the first day of Cheltenham Festival, with Douvan, Vroum Vroum Mag and, most impressively, Annie Power all bolting up – the latter in a course record time. Minella Rocco was another favourite to win in what must have…