What’s The Hunt Cup Story, Matthew Flinders? June 15, 2021 THERE are puzzles and then there is the Royal Hunt Cup (5.00pm), a 30-runner cavalry charge up Ascot’s straight mile. As is often the case in this race, there are a number of unexposed four-year-olds towards the head of the market which is no surprise with five of the last six winners coming from that [...]
Queen Mary crown still Gleaming June 15, 2021 WHEN it comes to five furlongs and two-year-old fillies, you need look no further than Wesley Ward. Campanelle, Lady Aurelia, Acapulco and Jealous Again all burnt themselves into our memories with electric performances in the Queen Mary (2:30pm) over the past decade or so, and the American trainer appears to have another top class act wound up [...]
I’m Loving Double in Duke Of Cambridge June 15, 2021 IT WILL be fantastic to see one of the stars of the 2020 season, Love, back in action in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (4.20pm) on Wednesday afternoon. The daughter of Galileo rattled off the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks in just over two months and it was really unfortunate she wasn’t able to [...]
Just stick with House and Hubert in Ascot Stakes June 14, 2021 LOOKING at the betting for the Ascot Stakes (5.00pm) and it appears to be at the mercy of the Irish with three of the first four in the market being saddled by the Mullins family. Ryan Moore has won this race three times for Willie Mullins and they team up again with favourite MC Muldoon [...]
Lope to storm the Palace June 14, 2021 IT’S FAIR to say that favourites have a pretty solid record in the Queen Anne Stakes (2.30pm), with five of the last 10 market leaders obliging and many expect Palace Pier to continue the sequence. Make no mistake, John and Thady Gosden’s colt is the most likely winner and based on his win in the Lockinge at Newbury [...]
Destiny and Arecibo monster prices against King’s Stand big guns June 14, 2021 THERE could easily be a changing of the guard when it comes to sprinting honours in the King’s Stand Stakes (3:40pm) with the flying three-year-old filly Winter Power strongly fancied to shake-up sprinting superstar Battaash. Last year’s winner has had plenty of well documented hiccups in his preparation and looked odds-against to even make the line-up a [...]
Duke could be Diomed in the rough June 4, 2021 BEFORE Frankie Dettori bids to ride his third Derby winner, DUKE OF HAZZARD could provide him with the perfect warmup in the Diomed Stakes (3:10pm). A bit like his rider, he’s a battle-hardened performer with plenty of experience, and on the pick of his form he should be bang there. The Oliver & Paul Cole-trained five-year-old is [...]
Sunday can make it a great Saturday June 4, 2021 IT WILL be a case of blink and you’ll miss it when it comes to the World Pool Dash (3.45pm) on Saturday. The 20-strong field will take less than a minute to surge down the five-furlong straight at Epsom and as usual, this year’s renewal is a fiercely competitive affair. Stone Of Destiny should go well, but it’s often hard [...]
Friday rain muddies Cazoo Derby picture June 4, 2021 IT WAS Jimmy Cliff who sang that he could ‘see clearly now the rain is gone’, but I’m afraid yesterday’s deluge at Epsom has only muddled the Cazoo Derby (4.30pm) picture for me. With the sun blazing and temperatures soaring at the beginning of the week, we were all set for a fast ground Derby [...]
Snowfall lights up rainy Epsom with astonishing Cazoo Oaks display June 4, 2021 RAINFALL was the word of the day at Epsom on Friday, that was until Snowfall obliterated her Cazoo Oaks rivals by a record 16 lengths to give Aidan O’Brien his ninth success in the race. O’Brien has now won both fillies’ Classics this season following Mother Earth’s win in the Qipco 1000 Guineas, with both [...]
