Author: Paul Davidson

There are a few horses coming in to this handicap on the upgrade, and several will be competing in the Wokingham at Royal Ascot in a few weeks time. The favourite is currently Godolphin’s Culturati, who has been off the track for over 600 days having not raced since he…

The fastest five furlong sprint in UK racing is held at Epsom on Derby Day. The ‘Dash’ always proves to be a spectacle and with twenty runners lined-up, it looks extremely competitive. The highly drawn horses have historically had an advantage, indeed last year the top four places were filled…

As final declarations were made for the Epsom Oaks on Friday, we learned that there would be a field of nine who will try to contest what looks to be a mighty challenge from Rhododendron. The O’Brien filly is yet to tackle the mile-and-a-half trip, but there seems to be…

We provided the English Grand National winner with One For Arthur last weekend, and we turn our attention to the Irish renewal which takes centre stage on Easter Monday. The market is headed by the Gold Cup winning combination of Jessica Harrington and Robbie Power with the heavily backed Our…

Following our ante-post tips on One For Arthur and Raz De Maree, we have one more selection to complete our Grand National 2017 portfolio. As the sun continues to beat down on Aintree, one horse who looks set to relish this weather and the going is the newly-acquired Trevor Hemmings…

It’s April, the weather has turned, spring is upon us. That means the return of the flat turf-racing season, and we are delighted it’s back. Doncaster is host to one of the season opening cards, with the feature race, the Lincoln Handicap Mile. Yuften looks set to go off a…

Defi Du Seuil is the correct favourite for the Triumph Hurdle having won all of his five starts to date. Those successes have generally come against fairly shallow small-field opposition where he has had the race at his mercy. As a result, it’s difficult to know how he will respond when…