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…
1pt each-way Ivanovich Gorbatov @11/1, 14:10 Cheltenham, Friday
And just like that, it’s Gold Cup day. Normal service was restored at Cheltenham on Thursday as Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins notched a four-timer to refill wounded punters’ pockets, whilst the Irish dominance of this Festival continued. They had never won the Prestbury Cup before Any Currency’s disqualification gave…
0.75pt each-way Sizing Codelco @14/1; 0.75pt each-way Village Vic @16/1, 16:10 Cheltenham, Thursday
A horrible race for novice chasers in recent years, and although Diamond King will come in for plenty of support given his yard’s form, his price is a rather uninspiring 5/1 in a hugely competitive handicap and, unless he figures in doubles/trebles, it could pay to look elsewhere. He had…
1pt each-way treble: Yorkhill (13:30), Unowhatimeanharry (15:30) and Let's Dance (16:50) @14.84 with SkyBet
On Cheltenham’s Thursday card last year, Vautour, Thistlecrack and Limini all won by substantial margins to smash the bookies in one of the most obvious trebles in recent memory. They say you shouldn’t tip a treble made up of short prices to try and enhance those odds towards something backable,…
0.5pt each-way Alary @33/1, 14:50 Cheltenham, Thursday
Gordon Elliott’s shadow has crept up on Willie Mullins’s domestic champion trainer hopes this season, but few would have predicted the contrast in fortunes between the two at this year’s Cheltenham Festival – a meeting Mullins has farmed in recent years – with Elliott running away with the race to be…
1pt win Divin Bere @13/2, 0.75pts each-way Dreamcatching @12/1, 16:50 Wednesday, Cheltenham
DIVIN BERE could be very well-handicapped on the basis of his neck-victory over the current Triump Hurdle favourite, Masterblueyes. It’s hard to ignore that form, which was his first for the Nicky Henderson yard. He was an experienced hurdler in France and is perhaps more battle-hardened than his UK excursions would…
1pt win Might Bite @4/1, 14:10 Cheltenham, Wednesday
Nicky Henderson had two winners yesterday, including the feature race with Buveur D’Air, and he’s got a really strong hand in today’s Grade 1 RSA Chase, run over three miles with the going good-to-soft. Despite being notably weak in the market, his MIGHT BITE has been favourite for this race all…