Aramram can follow Thunder home once again June 20, 2025 SATURDAY’s Wokingham Stakes (5.00pm) is a six-furlong handicap that always tests the sprinters and with hot weather forecast and rapidly drying ground, it’s set to be even more demanding. A fast-run race looks likely, and with a field of 27 runners, there’s plenty of value to be found with World Pool’s exotic bets like the [...]
Don’t Signor Cecelia to strike Gold in the Albany June 19, 2025 FRIDAY’s opening contest is the Group Three Albany Stakes (2.30pm), and I think there could be a few runners flying under the radar in the market, especially with the World Pool in operation. OH CECELIA comes from Jack Davison’s yard and could likely go off at a big price on the World Pool given her [...]
Mojo to emerge from the Shadows in Commonwealth Cup June 19, 2025 FRIDAY’s Royal Ascot card is headlined by two Group One contests, and the first of them is the Commonwealth Cup (3.05pm). This is a relatively new addition to the list of top tier races at the Royal Meeting, being introduced in 2015. At that stage Mick Appleby was just establishing himself as a name and [...]
Falakeyah can upset French raider in the Coronation June 19, 2025 PUNTERS are treated to two Group Ones on Friday at Royal Ascot, and the second of which, the Coronation Stakes (4.20pm), features some very promising three-year-old fillies over the round mile. Zarigana heads the betting and arrives here on the back of her controversial victory in the French 1000 Guineas. Francis-Henri Graffard’s filly was awarded [...]
Glen and Oliver can Show you the way to decent profit June 18, 2025 WHAT easier way to round off Gold Cup Day than a 29-runner seven-furlong handicap? That’s what punters have in store in the Buckingham Palace (or Getting Out Of Jail) Stakes (6.10pm). It is always dangerous to read too much into the draw at Royal Ascot, as any perceived bias can change on a daily basis, [...]
Del do well to kick classy Catalina out of the mixer June 18, 2025 TOMORROW afternoon’s Ribblesdale Stakes (3.40pm) might not be a vintage renewal on paper, but that doesn’t stop there being betting opportunities on offer, especially with the World Pool in operation. CATALINA DELCARPIO looks the best of this year’s bunch, and I can see why she’s toward the top of the market. Paddy Twomey’s filly only [...]
Be Brave and keep Mission and Fingal onside in the Britannia June 18, 2025 THERE are some fiendishly difficult puzzles to solve this week, but perhaps none more so than the 29-runner Britannia Stakes (5.00pm). Not only is the draw likely to play a huge part, half the field at least are totally unexposed and almost certainly well handicapped. That said, Ralph Beckett’s BRAVE MISSION leaps off the page [...]
Illinois ready to make Light of Gold Cup challenge June 18, 2025 WE HAVE reached the midpoint of Royal Ascot 2025, and for many tomorrow features the pinnacle of the meeting, the Gold Cup (4.20pm). A unique test, run over a trip of two-and-a-half miles, the field pass in front of the stands before embarking on one full lap of the Berkshire course. Any inadequacies in the [...]
Rogue Legend set to Hurri-home in the Windsor Castle June 17, 2025 THERE will be plenty of opinions expressed about the impact of the draw this week and the reality is that most pre-race opinions on potential biases are normally proved wrong. Most might say that you want to be drawn middle to high, but there is no getting away from the fact that the key protagonists [...]
Carmers is one to put Twomey in the big time June 17, 2025 AIDAN O’Brien has made the Queen’s Vase (3.05pm) his own in recent years. The master of Ballydoyle has won the race eight times and equalled Sir Henry Cecil’s record of victories in the race last year with Thursday’s Gold Cup favourite Illinois. Bookmakers seem to expect O’Brien’s Shackleton to take that tally to nine wins [...]
