Horse Racing Betting Tips: Sinjaari to make Fleeting visit to the winners’ enclosure June 19, 2019 NEWBURY’S London Gold Cup is always one of the hottest handicaps of the season. It nearly always goes to a highly progressive horse who is likely to ply his or her trade in Group company later in life. Roger Charlton’s Headman, who won under top-weight at Newbury last month, is doing that already by taking [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: King Power can get off to a flyer with Sovereign and Chairman June 19, 2019 KING Power Racing were so close to landing an emotional first Group One on Tuesday with Beat The Bank’s excellent second in the Queen Anne, but today could be a massive day for the growing operation. They have some serious chances and SUNDAY SOVEREIGN is going to be very hard to beat in the opening [...]
Eoin Morgan makes a mockery of a bad back to smash astonishing century in World Cup win over Afghanistan June 18, 2019 Eoin Morgan was supposed to have a bad back. When England’s captain followed Jason Roy off the pitch, walking gingerly alongside the physio during Friday’s match against West Indies in Southampton, it looked like the favourites could be about to receive a hammer blow to their Cricket World Cup chances. When the news was relayed [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Waldgeist can land the second day feature for magical Fabre June 18, 2019 IT SHOULD be all about glorious sunshine and fashion at Royal Ascot, but if some weather forecasts are to be believed racegoers could be scrambling for shelter with plenty of rain about. The challenge for us tipsters is to anticipate how much, if any, will actually fall and what impact it will have on the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Dettori can strike in the Duke of Cambridge with Rawdaa June 18, 2019 WITHOUT sounding like a broken record, the amount of rain that falls overnight will have a huge impact on all of this afternoon’s races, but arguably none more so than the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (4.20pm). The mile contest for fillies and mares is packed full of decent ground performers with only a handful who [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Raise the stakes with Sand and Chilean in the Royal Hunt Cup June 18, 2019 ROYAL Ascot features a number of big field competitive handicaps and the most infamous of them is today’s Royal Hunt Cup (5.00pm), a 30-runner cavalry charge over the straight mile. This is one of the biggest betting contests of the whole season and plenty of gambles have been landed over the years, though some have [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Back Suroor’s Final Song to deny speedy American rivals June 18, 2019 SOME of the fillies that US trainer Wesley Ward has fielded in the Queen Mary Stakes (2.30pm) at Royal Ascot in recent years have been absolute monsters. The likes of Lady Aurelia and Acapulco, who both won this race in devastating fashion, have built Ward a reputation for his muscly sprinters and both Anna’s Fast [...]
England could do with loosening the handbrake in Women’s World Cup clash with Japan June 18, 2019 If England’s 3-0 victory over Japan to clinch the SheBelieves Cup in March was the perfect statement of intent for one of the Women’s World Cup favourites then it’s the sort that Phil Neville’s team could do with repeating when the teams meet again on Wednesday. Because while the Lionesses have taken maximum points from [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Jalmoud can put you in the mood in Queen’s Vase June 18, 2019 FOR MANY, the highlight of the five days at Royal Ascot is tomorrow’s Gold Cup, but if you’re looking for a future Gold Cup winner it may well be running in this afternoon’s Queen’s Vase (3.05pm). The last two victors of this Group Two contest, Kew Gardens and Stradivarius, have gone on to bigger and [...]
The numbers that show Lewis Hamilton is approaching Michael Schumacher levels of dominance in Formula One June 18, 2019 His win in Canada may have been one of the most controversial Lewis Hamilton has claimed but what cannot be disputed is that the Briton is now dominating Formula One to an almost unprecedented level. At times such as two weekends ago, when he was handed the victory by race officials’ decision to penalise Sebastian [...]