Godolphin’s Promising Run (5/1) lived up to her name with a very game performance when breaking her maiden last time out at Newmarket. With the same seven furlongs and similar good to soft ground, she looks a good bet to continue her progression today. Doubly Motivated (9/2) fits a similar profile having cruised…
1pt win Steady Pace @16/1, Newmarket 15:40
Thursday is the first day of Newmarket’s Cambridgeshire meeting, which hosts plenty of Group-level action over the coming days. First up is the Group Three Tattersalls Stakes over seven furlongs. The ground is good to soft after plenty of rain and we fancy Godolphin’s Steady Pace to outrun both his…
1Pt Win Off Limits @15/2, Fillies Stakes Group 3, Gowran Park 14:55
Jack Naylor has been contesting the toughest fillies races this season, and has an opportunity to get off the mark for the first time as a three-year-old dropping back in trip. Jessica Harrington’s filly never got on terms in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks last time, and her best run of…
1pt win (double) Eagle Top, Scottish @11.69
In Newbury’s Group Three Arc trial, John Gosden’s Eagle Top might represent some value at 5/6 against opposition already making excuses. Connections of Sky Hunter and Ooty Hill have played down their chances, insisting they’ll need the run. That leaves last year’s out-of-form winner, Hillstar, and The Corsican to seriously…
1pt win Rathaath @20/1, Newbury 15:25
Steps has done most of his winning on soft ground and gets that today, so it’s little surprise to see him the 7/2 favourite for this five-furlong sprint after his handicap win at Doncaster last week. Caspian Prince was a winner last time out at York, but a collateral form-line…
1Pt Win Golden Steps @14/1, 1Pt EW Heaven's Guest @22/1, Ayr Gold Cup Class 2, Ayr 15:45
In the penultimate month of the official flat racing campaign, the Ayr Gold Cup, as per usual presents itself as one of the trickiest handicaps of the season. History tells us that three-year-olds generally don’t fair well having last won at that age in 2002, and that carrying more than…
1pt ew Marsh Hawk @20/1, Newbury 16:25
I’m keen to give Richard Hannon’s Marsh Hawk another go, having tipped her last week at Doncaster. She travelled really well though found little when asked at the business end, but she can claim receipt of a little bump on the way and the ground might have been quicker than ideal. It was a…
Performance Update: +93.64pts, 117.6% ROI
It must have been a brutal weekend for bookmakers with so many well-backed favourites winning. Arc potentials Golden Horn, Postponed, New Bay and the superstar mare Treve all won well, while at Doncaster favourites Limato and Emotionless landed the odds and some bookmakers paid out on Bondi Beach despite Simple Verse being first past…
1pt win Agent Murphy @6/1, Curragh 16:50
Agent Murphy ticks all the boxes for the Irish St Leger. He landed a big gamble when routing a decent Group Three field at Newbury, with the subsequent Doncaster Cup winner, Pallasator, well beaten. That was raced on similar good to soft ground to today’s and the manner of the…
1pt win Sole Power @7/1, Curragh 15:05
Sole Power has hardly been out of sorts this season. He won a Group One at Meydan in March and has run into two superstars in Mecca’s Angel and Muhaarar on his last two starts – he finished a good fourth in both with the trip and ground valid excuses…