Flora can bloom in Champions Sprint October 17, 2025 OF ALL the Group Ones at Ascot on British Champions Day, the Champions Sprint (2.05pm) looks the hardest of the bunch to call. That’s probably because the sprint division is one of the most open in recent memory, with different winners of all the big Group One sprints this season. Big Mojo became the most [...]
Hunt some value in the Balmoral with Witch and Oliver October 17, 2025 Ascot’s Champions Day card closes with the Balmoral Handicap (4.40pm). Native Warrior heads the betting, and while he’s bidding to land an Ascot hat-trick, I’m reminded that shorter-priced horses don’t have the best record. The Balmoral has, in fact, been a bookies’ benefit recently, with big-priced winners in the last three years. Punters shouldn’t be [...]
Rosallion to turn tide with Docklands in Ascot’s QEII October 14, 2025 BRITISH Champions Day from Ascot is always a great spectacle and the seven races on this year’s card look stacked with quality. All eyes will be on the third meeting this season of Ombudsman and Delacroix in the Champions Stakes (4.05pm). The score stands at one-a-piece after their meetings in the Eclipse and Juddmonte International, [...]
Oliver and Witch the ones for Balmoral value Hunters October 14, 2025 AFTER racing fans have feasted on the five Champions Day Group Ones, it’ll be time to turn attention to the cavalry charge finale that is the Balmoral Handicap (4.40pm). Native Warrior heads the betting at 5/1, and while he’s bidding to land an Ascot hat-trick, I’m reminded that shorter-priced horses don’t have the best record [...]
Zavateri can offer World Pool punters Grande value October 11, 2025 WORLD Pool is in operation for the first five races on the card from Newmarket today, where the feature is the Group One Dewhurst Stakes (3.00pm). It’s a race that sees ZAVATERI and Gstaad lock horns once again, after the former narrowly got the better of the argument in the National Stakes at the Curragh [...]
Hubert has the Revs to give De Sousa another Ces October 7, 2025 IRISH-trained horses look to have a stranglehold on the betting for this Saturday’s big handicap, the Cesarewitch (3.40pm) from Newmarket. That’s perhaps unsurprising when you consider Irish trainers have won six of the last seven renewals of this historic race. Naturally Willie Mullins features prominently in that list, having reeled off a hat-trick of wins [...]
Jubilee may be treated to a Rousing Encore at York October 7, 2025 WITH the return of the jumps season on the horizon in the UK, there’s still plenty of action to get stuck into on the level with a set of competitive races at York this Saturday. The Coral Sprint Trophy Handicap (3.15pm) is a typically deep contest on the Knavesmire, and I think there are [...]
Av another go on Venture to go one better in the Arc September 30, 2025 ACROSS a weekend of quality racing from Longchamp, the showpiece is undoubtedly Sunday’s Group One Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (3.05pm). Following the latest stage of forfeits, 17 of the world’s leading middle-distance horses stand their ground for the mile-and-a-half test at the Paris track. We’re yet to see who may be supplemented for the [...]
Pick ‘n’ mix Candy with Apollo One at Ascot September 30, 2025 WHILE much of the focus this weekend is on France and Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, there’s still some strong domestic action on Saturday. Newmarket is the scene of the Group One Sun Chariot Stakes (2.40pm), where a talented field of fillies line up. Unbeaten Lady Of Spain makes some appeal, but she has [...]
Real Gain and Thunder ready to rumble on Rowley Mile September 23, 2025 THERE aren’t many races that befit the title of a cavalry charge more than Newmarket’s Cambridgeshire Handicap (3.40pm). Most years it sees a field of over 30 horses race down the straight nine furlongs of the Rowley Mile, fanning out across the breadth of the track as they do. It’s certainly a stirring spectacle and [...]
