Horse racing betting tips: Prendergast is still Mad for it at 86 years old June 27, 2019 WHEN less than a length covered the first five home in this year’s Investec Derby, plenty were quick to question the quality of the renewal. However, that initial impression may need revising after Royal Ascot. Circus Maximus (sixth) went on to land the Group One St James’s Palace Stakes, while Japan (third) and Bangkok (12th) [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Ballydoyle set for red letter day but Watch Me worth a look in Coronation June 20, 2019 DAYS like today scare the living daylights out of bookmakers. It is normally Willie Mullins at Cheltenham that gives them the willies, but a short-price Aidan O’Brien-Ryan Moore treble at Royal Ascot is enough to get the finger nail biting started. The Coronation Stakes (4.20pm) is potentially the last leg of the treble and in [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Boys in Blue expected to make flying start on final day June 20, 2019 TRAINER Aidan O’Brien is enjoying another fantastic week at Ascot and will have high hopes of landing tomorrow’s Chesham Stakes (2.30pm) with the highly regarded Lope Y Fernandez. The son of Lope De Vega made a sparkling debut at the Curragh earlier in the month when he quickened up in tremendous style to readily beat [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Return to his beloved Ascot can see Sands Of Mali strike June 20, 2019 CHOISIR made history in 2003 when becoming the first horse to win the King’s Stand-Diamond Jubilee double in the same year. It was a remarkable achievement, but 16 years on Blue Point will attempt to repeat the feat in tomorrow’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes (4.20pm). Charlie Appleby’s five-year-old outstayed Battaash to win the King’s Stand for [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Dee Ex Bee can grind his way to Gold Cup glory June 19, 2019 IT WAS Johnny Nash who sang about being able to see clearly now the rain has gone and hopefully racegoers will be met by glorious sunshine at Ascot today on Ladies’ Day. The course has taken a drenching in recent days and even though it will now start to dry out, there will still be [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Sinjaari to make Fleeting visit to the winners’ enclosure June 19, 2019 NEWBURY’S London Gold Cup is always one of the hottest handicaps of the season. It nearly always goes to a highly progressive horse who is likely to ply his or her trade in Group company later in life. Roger Charlton’s Headman, who won under top-weight at Newbury last month, is doing that already by taking [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: King Power can get off to a flyer with Sovereign and Chairman June 19, 2019 KING Power Racing were so close to landing an emotional first Group One on Tuesday with Beat The Bank’s excellent second in the Queen Anne, but today could be a massive day for the growing operation. They have some serious chances and SUNDAY SOVEREIGN is going to be very hard to beat in the opening [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Waldgeist can land the second day feature for magical Fabre June 18, 2019 IT SHOULD be all about glorious sunshine and fashion at Royal Ascot, but if some weather forecasts are to be believed racegoers could be scrambling for shelter with plenty of rain about. The challenge for us tipsters is to anticipate how much, if any, will actually fall and what impact it will have on the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Dettori can strike in the Duke of Cambridge with Rawdaa June 18, 2019 WITHOUT sounding like a broken record, the amount of rain that falls overnight will have a huge impact on all of this afternoon’s races, but arguably none more so than the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (4.20pm). The mile contest for fillies and mares is packed full of decent ground performers with only a handful who [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Raise the stakes with Sand and Chilean in the Royal Hunt Cup June 18, 2019 ROYAL Ascot features a number of big field competitive handicaps and the most infamous of them is today’s Royal Hunt Cup (5.00pm), a 30-runner cavalry charge over the straight mile. This is one of the biggest betting contests of the whole season and plenty of gambles have been landed over the years, though some have [...]
