Hong Kong Racing Tips: You better Be Ready to back Zac Purton’s valley mount March 10, 2020 LIFE has been tough for formbook students at Happy Valley over the past few weeks. Normally horses drawn low, racing up with the pace and along the rail down the home straight, have been a recipe for success, but not so much recently. The majority of results have seen horses coming from behind and finishing [...]
Hong Kong Betting Tips: Naboo can be the Star for Fownes March 10, 2020 TRAINER Caspar Fownes could be the man to follow at Happy Valley today. Charismatic Fownes is known as the ‘King of the Valley’. The three-time champion trainer has saddled around 470 winners at the inner-city track since he gained his licence back in 2003/04 and is the go-to trainer when bettors are looking for some [...]
David Pipe talks through his runners at Cheltenham on Wednesday March 10, 2020 NO RUNNERS for us at Cheltenham yesterday, but we have three today so it’s a busier day for the yard. After all the rain at the beginning of the week, the ground will be starting to dry out a little and that is often pretty hard work. We run NIGHT EDITION in the Boodles Handicap [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Tronador looks diamond of a bet in the Boodles March 10, 2020 CONDITIONS will be really tough at Cheltenham this afternoon and that could play to the strengths of the Gordon Elliott-trained TRONADOR in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (4.50pm). Elliott saddles five of the 22 runners in a contest he won two years ago with Veneer Of Charm and back in 2013 with Flaxen Flare. The [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Hobbs runner Definitely the one in the Champion Chase March 10, 2020 EVERY year there is always a ‘race of the Festival’ and up until yesterday morning it was undoubtedly the Betway Champion Chase (3.30pm). However, sadly reigning champion Altior was ruled out by Nicky Henderson after suffering a setback on Sunday and going lame. He just couldn’t recover in time and it’s a real shame as [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Copperhead and Minella Indo look most likely to become RSA champs March 10, 2020 AP MCCOY was a truly extraordinary sportsman and the horse named after him, Champ, will be many punters’ idea of the banker in today’s RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase (2.10pm). Nicky Henderson’s son of King’s Theatre had finished first or second on his first 11 starts, but last time in the Dipper Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Longhouse upset will be pure poetry for his backers March 10, 2020 WITH global shares taking a battering on “Black Monday”, the hordes of Irish racing fans who have descended on Cheltenham this week will be hoping to make it “Black Wednesday” for the bookmakers. A string of high-profile, short-priced favourites are set to strut their stuff around Prestbury Park this afternoon and the alarm bells will [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bailey’s Imperial has a certain Aura about him March 9, 2020 THERE are often one or two that slip into the Northern Trust Novices’ Handicap (4.50pm) off an extremely lenient mark – the challenge is singling out which of the 20 runners that could be. The handicapper must have been wincing when the Irish-trained A Plus Tard cantered into the lead rounding the home turn 12 [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Ballyandy is a Sublime bet in wide-open Champion Hurdle March 9, 2020 WITH more rain set to fall at Cheltenham this morning, ground conditions will be soft for the Unibet Champion Hurdle (3.30pm), the feature contest on the opening day. When you also factor in that this will be the largest field assembled for the two-mile hurdling crown since Punjabi won it back in 2009, the stage [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Mullins magic means you will get more than your Cash Back March 9, 2020 NOBODY has trained more Cheltenham Festival winners than Willie Mullins – the 63-year-old has rewritten the record books and he is showing no signs of taking his foot off the pedal. The Racing Post Arkle Novices’ Chase (2.10pm) has been particularly kind to his Closutton stable in recent years, with the yard responsible for four [...]