A warm welcome to race-goers from London’s business paper June 7, 2014 WELCOME to today’s special Saturday edition to celebrate one of the greatest and most exciting sporting events of the year. Here at City A.M., we are truly passionate about the Investec Derby as well as horse-racing in general. Our readers work hard – but they also love to play hard, and that means they have [...]
We’re proud to support Epsom June 7, 2014 RAYMOND VAN NIEKERK HEAD OF GLOBAL MARKETING, INVESTEC ON BEHALF of Investec, I am delighted to welcome City A.M. readers old and new to the greatest flat racing event in the world, the 2014 Investec Derby Festival. Now in our sixth year of sponsorship of this illustrious and historic occasion, we grow ever more inspired [...]
Flippant in with a serious chance June 7, 2014 RACE 1 1.35pm Investec Out Of The Ordinary Handicap HOPEFULLY as you are reading this the sun is shining and you are enjoying a glass of something cold and wet. But if the weather forecasters are to be believed, you could be using this very paper as an impromptu umbrella and feeling rather cold and [...]
Baitha Alga can cut a dash for Hannon in Woodcote June 7, 2014 RACE 2 2.05pm Investec Woodcote Stakes RICHARD Hannon (24) and Richard Fahey (15) have trained more two-year-old winners than anyone this season, and yet again they look to hold the trump cards for the speed test for youngsters this afternoon. You need a special juvenile for this downhill six furlong dash, one with the pace [...]
Fallon looking to write a new story in his tumultuous career June 7, 2014 Kieren Fallon talks to Geoff Lester about his chances of landing a fourth Investec Derby with True Story KIEREN Fallon insists that he has pressed that self-destruct button for the final time. The six-time champion jockey has been in more scrapes than Justin Bieber, but he is now at peace with the world and reckons [...]
Flintshire the value call against Cirrus Des Aigles June 7, 2014 RACE 3 2.40pm Investec Coronation Cup AN INVESTEC Coronation Cup without a Ballydoyle runner is a bit like a cheese sandwich without pickle. Aidan O’Brien has won the race a record seven times and all of those wins have come in the last nine years. The late St Nicholas Abbey dominated this contest for the [...]
Rascal to strike as long as he gets smooth trip in the Dash June 7, 2014 RACE 4 3.15pm Investec Specialist Bank Dash THERE is no faster five-furlong track anywhere in the world than Epsom’s downhill straight. It is run at a lightning fast pace and just this week Stone Of Folca was officially listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest ever five furlongs clocked when landing [...]
Spread Betting on the Derby June 7, 2014 The old expression ‘horses for courses’ is never more appropriate when it comes to betting at Epsom, with its unique hills, undulations, and cambers. Sporting Index will price up a series of match-bets on each of this afternoon’s seven races where they pitch two horses together. As the name suggests, the rest of the field [...]
Your horse-by-horse guide to the 2014 Investec Derby June 7, 2014 Arod Bidding to give Peter Chapple- Hyam a third Derby, the colt was a fast-finishing second in the Dante. That form was boosted massively when the winner, The Grey Gatsby, won the French Derby last Sunday. Shouldn’t be dismissed but doesn’t want rain. Australia Described by Aidan O’Brien as the best he’s ever trained, the [...]
Selling that Derby dream June 7, 2014 Bill Esdaile speaks to Tattersalls’ Jimmy George about how to sell the best horses in the world WHEN John Magnier raised his hand for the last time for Lot 172 at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale back in 2012, he did so with today’s date firmly in mind. He’d just paid 525,000 guineas on behalf [...]