Breath Caught and Straight Right catch eye in tricky handicaps July 2, 2020 Looking at the rest of the Epsom card and there are only five runners in the opening Woodcote Stakes (1.50pm). Twaasol is favourite on the back of a decent win at Windsor last month, but I’d rather side with MODERN NEWS at 5/2 with Ladbrokes. He didn’t seem to stay the seven furlongs at Ascot [...]
Frankie can be the Darling of Epsom again July 2, 2020 TRAINERS Aidan O’Brien and John Gosden have saddled seven of the last eight winners of the Investec Oaks (3.40pm) and it is long odds-on that they will extend that sequence on Saturday as they are responsible for the first three in the betting. The betting suggests O’Brien should land the race for an eighth time [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Speak In Colours looks Diamond bet at 25/1 in Jubilee June 19, 2020 THERE are a whopping eight races to get our teeth into on the final day of Royal Ascot on Saturday. Now that the rain seems to have gone, the ground will be drying out but it will still be pretty hard work. The Queen Mary Stakes (1.15pm) looks at the mercy of Aidan O’Brien and [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Wooded has the Power for France in the Commonwealth Cup June 18, 2020 AFTER all of the rain yesterday, the weather is set fairer for the penultimate day of the Royal meeting. We’ve seen the introduction of plenty of new races this week and none are more intriguing than the five furlong handicap which opens today’s card. There may be a huge field for the Palace Of Holyroodhouse handicap (1.15 [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Technician the only threat to Stradivarius’s hat-trick bid June 17, 2020 TRAINER John Gosden is already enjoying a terrific royal meeting having landed yesterday’s feature with Lord North and things could get even better today when Stradivarius bids for a Gold Cup (3.35pm) hat-trick. The six-year-old will be attempting to win at Royal Ascot for a fourth year on the trot having landed the 2017 Queen’s Vase and he [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Fantastic Fox looks Wolferton banker June 17, 2020 THAT man Aidan O’Brien has won the second race of the day for the last two days and may just fancy his chances of landing the hat-trick with Sir Dragonet in the Wolferton Stakes (1.50pm). He finished fifth in last year’s Investec Derby on only his third ever racecourse start and will be at home [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Beloved So big at monster 50/1 June 16, 2020 FANS of the Royal Hunt Cup (3.35pm) are in for a real treat this year with the introduction of a Silver Hunt Cup (1.15pm) meaning two impossible looking one mile handicaps to get our teeth into. Looking at the main event and John Gosden teams up with Frankie Dettori to saddle the lightly-raced Lord Tennyson. [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Addeybb can serve it up to Japan in Prince Of Wales’s Stakes June 16, 2020 TRAINER Aidan O’Brien didn’t take long to get off the mark at this year’s Royal meeting when Circus Maximus landed the Queen Anne Stakes and he will fancy he chances of landing the feature on day two. Japan heads the betting for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (3.00pm) and hasn’t been seen in action since [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Jubiloso can triumph for Ascot maestro Stoute June 15, 2020 CONNECTIONS of Battaash couldn’t have got better conditions for today’s King’s Stand (3.35pm) if they tried. Not only is there no Blue Point to contend with this year, there is also no crowd and razzmatazz to put him off his game. He will never get a better chance to win the big sprint at the royal [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Space Traveller too big at 25/1 in wide-open looking Queen Anne June 15, 2020 WHAT happened to the last three months? It seems like yesterday I was sitting in the press room at Cheltenham tipping up Goshen to win the Triumph Hurdle and then the world seemed to change. Like Goshen, everything has been turned upside down. We have all been stuck at home attempting to adapt to the [...]
