Flintshire the value call against Cirrus Des Aigles June 7, 2014 RACE 3 2.40pm Investec Coronation Cup AN INVESTEC Coronation Cup without a Ballydoyle runner is a bit like a cheese sandwich without pickle. Aidan O’Brien has won the race a record seven times and all of those wins have come in the last nine years. The late St Nicholas Abbey dominated this contest for the [...]
Rascal to strike as long as he gets smooth trip in the Dash June 7, 2014 RACE 4 3.15pm Investec Specialist Bank Dash THERE is no faster five-furlong track anywhere in the world than Epsom’s downhill straight. It is run at a lightning fast pace and just this week Stone Of Folca was officially listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest ever five furlongs clocked when landing [...]
Spread Betting on the Derby June 7, 2014 The old expression ‘horses for courses’ is never more appropriate when it comes to betting at Epsom, with its unique hills, undulations, and cambers. Sporting Index will price up a series of match-bets on each of this afternoon’s seven races where they pitch two horses together. As the name suggests, the rest of the field [...]
Your horse-by-horse guide to the 2014 Investec Derby June 7, 2014 Arod Bidding to give Peter Chapple- Hyam a third Derby, the colt was a fast-finishing second in the Dante. That form was boosted massively when the winner, The Grey Gatsby, won the French Derby last Sunday. Shouldn’t be dismissed but doesn’t want rain. Australia Described by Aidan O’Brien as the best he’s ever trained, the [...]
Selling that Derby dream June 7, 2014 Bill Esdaile speaks to Tattersalls’ Jimmy George about how to sell the best horses in the world WHEN John Magnier raised his hand for the last time for Lot 172 at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale back in 2012, he did so with today’s date firmly in mind. He’d just paid 525,000 guineas on behalf [...]
Take Mirsaale and Saptapadi against the field in the Investec Zebra Stakes June 7, 2014 RACE 6 4.50pm Investec Zebra Stakes FAVOURITES have a terrible record in the Investec Zebra Stakes with just one obliging in the last 10 years. Today’s renewal looks as tricky as ever. One trend in recent times is that the higher-rated runners are winning. The last three victors all carried at least 9st 5lb and [...]
Arctic Feeling well set in repeat bid for the Voyage By Investec Stakes June 7, 2014 RACE 7 5.25pm Voyage By Investec Stakes THE VOYAGE By Investec Stakes is also known as the ‘Get Out of Jail Stakes’ and bettors across the land will be hoping to extricate themselves from a punting hole by picking the winner of this sixfurlong handicap. Just two winners in the last 10 runnings have been [...]
AA races ahead with plans for £1.4bn flotation June 6, 2014 BRITAIN’S largest car insurer and roadside recovery firm, the AA, yesterday confirmed its intention to list on the London Stock Exchange in the second half of this month. The company’s current private equity owners want to sell off the stock to a buy-in team, backed by institutional investors, who will then take it public. They’ll [...]
Game valuation set at £340m in return to market June 6, 2014 GAME Digital will sell its shares for £2 apiece, it said yesterday, at the lower end of the projected range and giving the video games retailer a valuation of £340m as it prepares to return to the stock market. The group itself had initially banked on a £400m initial price offering (IPO), and estimates had [...]
US stocks hit record as 217,000 new jobs send employment above pre-crisis peak June 6, 2014 US MARKETS opened at record highs yesterday as the country’s labour market added a seasonally adjusted 217,000 jobs in May – taking the total number jobs above its prerecession peak. According to the Bureau for Labour Statistics US employment now stands 98,000 above its January 2008 peak, setting a new all-time high, although the numbers [...]
