Category: Winners

The competitive landscape of this three-year-old race is full of a number of improving types boasting decent pedigree. DAL HARRAILD is locked for favouritism at 7/2 with STARGAZER – the mount of Ryan Moore – and they sit at the top of the handicap for recent efforts. At the prices,…

Potential heavy rain is causing no end of unease in the betting market for the 2016 renewal of the Nunthorpe Stakes, the feature race on York’s Friday card. Arguably the best sprint in the racing calendar, York’s flat and fast five furlongs is all about speed and is always a brilliant…

Day two of York’s Ebor meeting and the Darley Yorkshire Oaks is the highlight, a mile-and-a-half fillies’ Group One. We had the winner last year in Pleascach, but she’s been retired as a broodmare now and twelve go to post to claim her title. Aiden O’Brien is having a particularly…

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…

The Great St Wilfrid Stakes is by far the most competitive race at Ripon in a calendar season and is one of the highlights of Saturday’s racing. Orion’s Bow is a worthy favourite for the handicap having finished second behind the fast-improving filly Dancing Star in the Stewards’ Cup. He…

One of the highlights of the handicap sprinting season is the Stewards’ Cup. There’s been some excellent racing at Glorious Goodwood this week, but it’s a race I’ve always looked forward to the most at the festival. The races on the straight course have generally developed down the centre of…

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…

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…

I’m a big fan of American trainer Wesley Ward. He lets punters know when he’s got a good thing and the noises he’s making about his Queen Mary Stakes raider LADY AURELIA are too positive to ignore. This is a race he targets as he’s won it twice since 2009, most recently…