Horse Racing Betting Tips: Mabs won’t be Cross this time after the Nunthorpe August 22, 2019 IN FLAT racing we become used to the big trainers, jockeys and owners celebrating the top level wins week in week out. However, one exception is this afternoon’s Group One Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (3.35pm), which has seen its fair share of success for the smaller yards over the years. This five furlong dash has eluded [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Be First In Line to back Raheen and Skyline in £1million Ebor August 22, 2019 HISTORY will be made at York tomorrow afternoon when connections of the winner of the Sky Bet Ebor (3.40pm) collect a cheque for a cool £600,000. This is the first year this historic handicap is being run for £1million, and the racecourse and sponsor have been rewarded with a top class field of stayers. With [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Quicker conditions on the Knavesmire will suit you Sir August 22, 2019 ONLY the six have been declared for tomorrow’s Strensall Stakes (1.50pm) with the Gosden- Dettori team linking up again with Wissahickon. Last season’s Cambridgeshire winner proved a sensation on the all-weather over the winter and only found Matterhorn too good in the Easter Classic. He returns to the grass for the first time since winning [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Crystal Ocean can leave rivals toiling in his wake August 20, 2019 YORK’S four day Ebor meeting gets underway on the Knavesmire this afternoon with the feature being the Juddmonte International Stakes (3.35pm). Plenty are already labelling last month’s titanic duel between Enable and CRYSTAL OCEAN in the King George at Ascot as the race of the century and it looked likely this afternoon’s Group One contest [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Carnwennan set to prove Charlie is a very good Fellowes August 20, 2019 IN ANY normal year plenty of the runners in this afternoon’s 2m½f Sky Bet Handicap (4.15pm) would be lining up in Saturday’s Ebor, but with £1 million up for grabs in the big one the complexion of that race has completely changed. It is now more like a British version of the Melbourne Cup and [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Hills to land third Acomb with a little bit of Persuasion August 20, 2019 WE’VE seen it all before with Charlie Hills’ runners in this afternoon’s Acomb Stakes (2.25pm). Both Dutch Connection (2014) and Phoenix Of Spain (2018) made the 400-mile round trip from Lambourn to York worthwhile by landing this Group Three prize and Hills looks to have every chance of adding another with PERSUASION. Overlooked by most [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Growl in with a shout of claiming Great St Wilfrid Consolation August 15, 2019 YORKSHIRE’S Garden Racecourse, Ripon, will be in full bloom for their biggest day of the year tomorrow, not least thanks to all of the rain that’s expected to fall today. There’s over £150,000 on offer across the seven races, with half of that up for grabs in the Great St Wilfrid Handicap (3.15pm). GROWL looked [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Safe Voyage set to sail home on soft ground in the Hungerford August 15, 2019 ANOTHER batch of rain is expected to hit Newbury today, meaning the ground is likely to be on the soft side for tomorrow’s Unibet Hungerford Stakes (3.35pm). Betting on this Group Two prize at the beginning of the week was dominated by the likes of Sir Dancealot and Space Blues, but the former has been [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Backing Spencer for a Victory in the Shergar Cup Sprint August 8, 2019 WHILE having some of the world’s best jockeys battling it out at one of racing’s most iconic venues provides a great spectacle, betting on tomorrow’s six-race Shergar Cup card at Ascot should be approached with maximum caution. Many of the jockeys have never ridden the track, let alone the horses they are partnering, and that [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Pondus looks ready to do battle in Rose Of Lancaster August 8, 2019 UNFORTUNATELY, if the weather forecast is to be believed, Haydock is set for another soaking and the ground will be soft for tomorrow’s Rose Of Lancaster Stakes (3.05pm). That will be music to the ears of the connections of Addeybb who fluffed his lines a little when only runner-up in the York Stakes last time [...]
