By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Horse racing betting: Blue looks the perfect colour on Ladies’ Day

June 15, 2016

There may only be a field of nine declared for Thursday's Tercentenary Stakes (3.05pm), but what it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality. Aidan O’Brien, Sir Michael Stoute and John Gosden all run lightly-raced colts with plenty of potential, but I’m sticking with the form in the book and siding with [...]
Horse racing betting: Let’s hope Shraaoh and Harrison can make it the lucky last

June 15, 2016

If you haven’t backed a winner come King George V Stakes (Thursday 5.35pm) time, it may be best to head for the exits and keep your powder dry. Many of the 18-strong field are stepping up to 12 furlongs for the first time and the majority have yet to race on ground this soft. Anyway, enough [...]
Horse racing betting: Beckett can land his first Royal Ascot winner with Chicadoro

June 15, 2016

Some trainers just seem to have a knack with training fillies and Ralph Beckett is certainly one of them. He’s won the Oaks twice and also took last year’s St Leger with his filly Simple Verse, although he hasn’t had a Royal Ascot winner yet. I’m hoping that changes on Thursday afternoon. CHICADORO has her second [...]
Euro 2016 betting: Battling point won’t suit either Northern Ireland or Ukraine

June 15, 2016

Northern Ireland’s Euro 2016 adventure continues on Thursday as they take on Ukraine in Lyon at 5pm. Beaten 1-0 by Poland on Sunday, but certainly not disgraced, getting something against the Ukrainians represents their best chance of progressing from Group C. Michael O’Neill’s side came into the tournament on the back of a 12-match unbeaten [...]
Euro 2016 betting: England to put Welsh dragons to the sword

June 15, 2016

Euro 2016’s Battle of Britain is almost upon us as England take on Wales in Lens on Thursday afternoon. Sporting rivalry between the two neighbours is usually confined to the rugby field, but it’s with a round ball rather than an oval that the two meet at 2:00pm. Bigger brother England are favourites – yet, as [...]
Premier League fixtures: Arsenal v Liverpool, Chelsea v West Ham, Bournemouth v Manchester United and Manchester v Sunderland on first weekend of new season

June 15, 2016

Runners-up Arsenal are set to host Liverpool and new Chelsea boss Antonio Conte will begin his tenure with a London derby against West Ham on the first day of the 2016-17 Premier League season. Jose Mourinho kicks off his Manchester United reign at Bournemouth, Manchester City host Sunderland in their first competitive game under Pep Guardiola [...]
Royal Ascot 2016: Frankie Dettori strikes Gold with Galileo in battle of the Guineas heroes

June 14, 2016

Trainer Hugo Palmer hailed Galileo Gold as the best three-year-old colt in Europe after Frankie Dettori rode the 6/1 chance to glory in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday. The 2000 Guineas winner prevailed by just over a length from even-money favourite and French Guineas hero The Gurkha, with Irish Guineas [...]
Horse racing betting: Usherette can show rivals the door in the Duke Of Cambridge

June 14, 2016

Not since 1971 had the ground on the opening day of Royal Ascot been worse than good to soft, but on Tuesday conditions were soft all round. All the unseasonal rain that has fallen on Berkshire since last Friday means that a field of only six has been declared for Wednesday’s Prince Of Wales’s Stakes [...]
Horse racing betting: John Gosden’s second string looks Remarkable value in Jersey Stakes

June 14, 2016

Finding the winner of the wide-open looking 21-runner Jersey Stakes (Wednesday 2.30pm) looks a pretty unenviable task on paper. The obvious starting point is Ribchester who was last seen in action finishing third to Galileo Gold in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. With the drop back in trip to seven furlongs, as well as plenty [...]
Horse racing betting: Hunt Cup is a Breeze for Ivory while Glory Awaits

June 14, 2016

Some love them; some hate them, but working out one of Royal Ascot’s fiendishly difficult handicap puzzles rewards punters like nothing else. The Royal Hunt Cup (Wednesday 5.00pm) is possibly the biggest lottery of them all, especially when the ground is soft and the effects of the draw unclear. Sir Michael Stoute and Ryan Moore team [...]

Uefa Conference League: Even as a Palace fan there’s too much football

Uefa Conference League: Even as a Palace fan there’s too much football

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