Author: Paul Davidson

The Melbourne Cup has transformed over recent years with the European bred stayers tending to dominate the home team in terms of the number of challengers. The prize money on offer has seen plenty of International winners with the Australian bred stayers not quite up to the level. Lloyd Williams…

The Breeders’ Cup is clearly taking centre stage this Saturday and John Gosden has an opportunity to make history with Enable later in the day. But closer to home, we like a three-year-old of his that’s running in the Price Bailey Ben Marshall Listed Stakes at Newmarket. GRAFFITI MASTER may…

The flat season is beginning to wind down with just the Breeders’ Cup and Melbourne Cup of the big meets remaining. The feature race this Saturday at Doncaster is the juvenile Group 1 later on the card, which appears to possess several horses that can make their presence felt in…

Willie Mullins is set up nicely to do a glorious Cesarewitch double with the Irish instalment of this cracking handicap taking place at Navan on Sunday. Another rampage of runners from the champion trainers’ yard here, fielding seven, with several possessing an interesting chance. But the pick of his bunch…

A typically strong renewal with Willie Mullins holding plenty of cards by launching a seven-pronged attack. His long-time favourite Stratum has been dethroned in the last 12 hours with plenty of support for Aiden O’Brien’s St. Leger third Southern France. I like this colt, but he is now terribly short…

Ronald Harris sprung with a 33/1 winner in Just Glamorous to claim this 12 months ago, and he runs two horses with Under The Covers arguably the more interesting of his pair. She warranted strong consideration at odds of 16/1 having put in two back-to-back career bests and may be…

The bet365 Cambridgeshire is a difficult puzzle to solve with 35 runners lining-up. There aren’t a huge amount of significant trends in this race, but it’s generally advantageous to have a horse that stays a 1m 2f and with no obvious draw bias on the straight track, it seems wise…

The Ayr Gold Cup has only seen two favourites win since the 80’s and you have to think Fozzy Stack’s raider Son Of Rest can go close because he is now officially 10lbs well-in for his second place finish in a Group 1 at the Curragh last weekend. He has…

The precursor to the Irish Champion Stakes is the Group 2 Clipper Logistics Boomerang Stakes and it looks pretty competitive with Dermot Weld’s Making Light the current 3/1 favourite. She put in a career best performance to take a Listed race on her previous outing at Cork and has scope for improvement.…

There are several promising looking three-year-old fillies in the 15:20 at Ascot, and plenty of support for Sheikha Reika at the top of the market. The Roger Varian filly has certainly got some ability having finished in the first two on all five of her starts being turned over at odds-on on…