Charbel looks a very short price to win the big two-mile novices’ chase on Aintree’s Grand National card, and I’m keen to take him on. He fell a couple out when attempting to beat the brilliant Altior in the Arkle, and such jumping errors are reason enough to doubt the…
1pt win Fox Norton @4/1, 0.5pt each-way Josses Hill @14/1, 15:25 Aintree, Friday
Tea For Two and Lizzie Kelly continued our strong form by following up Vivlos’s 25/1 win at Meydan with an 18/1 success in the Grade 1 Bowl on the opening day of Aintree’s Grand National meeting. There’s plenty of Grade 1 action on Friday’s card with the Melling Chase over…
1pt win Moon Racer @4/1, 14:20 Aintree, Friday
The first Grade 1 on Friday’s Aintree card sees the Supreme Novices’ third River Wylde lead a market of nine. Two miles is the trip and it’s good ground, whereas the times were slow on the opening day of Cheltenham this year, suggesting River Wylde will get improved conditions. That may…
0.5pt win Tea For Two @18/1, 14:50 Aintree, Thursday
Round two of the spring festivals starts today with Aintree hosting four Grade 1 races at its Grand National meeting. The feature race is the Bowl, a three-mile Grade 1 chase with practically no resemblance to its Cheltenham Festival equivalent the Gold Cup. That’s because the ground is typically quicker…
2017 Grand National Ante-Post Tips: 0.75pts EW One For Arthur @14/1, 0.5pt EW Raz De Maree @33/1, 17:15 Saturday, Aintree
The race that captures a nation. The 2017 Grand National takes place on Saturday afternoon at Aintree, and we have two ante-post tips before the final declarations are released on Thursday and prior to any shortening in the odds as we approach post-time. The complexion of the race has changed in…
0.75pts each-way Donncha @9/1, 0.5pt each-way Top Notch Tonto @12/1, 15:35 Saturday, Doncaster
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…
0.5pt each-way Vivlos @25/1, 15:30 Meydan, Saturday
The Dubai Turf (15:30, Meydan) looks a hot renewal this year with plenty of Group One winners having a crack, yet the favourite Zarak is not one of them and has his place in the market because of regal breeding and potential. Perhaps that’s a little unfair, as he twice…
2pts win Postponed @5/2, 16:05 Meydan, Saturday
The jump racing season has crescendoed with Cheltenham Festival a thing of the past and Aintree’s Grand National meeting fast approaching, but the first major flat racing card of the year takes centre stage this Saturday over in Dubai, where the massive riches of World Cup night are up for grabs. Whilst…
2pts win Native River @5/1, 15:30 Cheltenham, Friday
The Cheltenham Gold Cup, jump racing’s blue ribband, takes centre stage on St Patrick’s Day this Friday without two of the season’s staying chasing stars in King George and World Hurdle winner Thistlecrack and ex-Grand National hero Many Clouds. The two locked horns in a titanic battle on trials day with…
1pt win Master Blueyes @7/1, 13:30 Cheltenham, Friday
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…