Horse Racing Betting Tips: Back Sextant to get the measure of handicap rivals May 31, 2019 IT WON’T take an expert to pick out SEXTANT as the most likely winner of the penultimate race today. Sir Michael Stoute’s fast-improving four-year-old is getting better with every gallop, and though he may not be the biggest price winner you’ll ever back, he looks a very solid bet at 9/4. So many of Sir [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Sir Dragonet has come a long way since Tipperary win May 31, 2019 WITH no less than seven runners in Saturday afternoon’s Investec Derby (4.30pm), Aidan O’Brien has a very strong chance of securing a record equalling seventh win in the world’s most famous Flat race. O’Brien’s runners have been popular in the betting since the end of last summer and ante-post punters may have already invested in [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Eeh Bah Gum and Muthmir set to Dash to success May 31, 2019 FASTEN your seatbelts and get ready for the Investec Dash, one of the fastest races you will ever see. Epsom’s downhill five furlong track is like no other in the world and back in 2012 Stone Of Folca set a new world record when winning this race in 53.69 seconds, the quickest since electronic timing [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bye Bye Hong Kong, Hello Epsom Downs May 31, 2019 ANDREW Balding and Silvestre de Sousa have some very big fish to fry for King Power Racing this weekend, notably Bangkok in the Derby, but I expect them to be celebrating after BYE BYE HONG KONG wins the Investec Diomed Stakes. The Kingsclere-based handler has won this prize a joint record three times with Tullius, [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Nerium will send punters into delirium in Princess Elizabeth May 31, 2019 THERE was a sense of what might have been for those punters who backed ANNA NERIUM in last year’s Princess Elizabeth Stakes. Richard Hannon’s four-year-old was drawn wide and forced to sit out the back for the majority of the race, only really getting going when the eventual winner Wilamina was away and gone. She [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Politicise can get things off to a flyer for the in-form Haggas May 31, 2019 THERE hasn’t been a winning favourite of the Investec Private Banking Handicap in the last decade and I expect that to continue this afternoon. The Andrew Balding-trained Le Don De Vie and Mark Johnston’s Nayef Road are the two currently vying for favouritism and you can see why they will have their supporters. The latter [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Stop fooling around and stick with Sir Dragonet in the Investec Derby May 30, 2019 ONCE again, trainer Aidan O’Brien appears to hold all the aces when it comes to tomorrow’s Investec Derby (4.30pm) as he bids to land the world’s most famous Flat race for a seventh time. The likes of Japan, Anthony Van Dyck and BROOME have all held prominent positions in the ante-post lists over the winter, [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Rab looks like Havlin the time of his life after Mehdaayih wins May 30, 2019 DECISIONS, decisions, decisions. At Epsom’s Breakfast With The Stars event last week, Frankie Dettori said he would wait for as long as he could before deciding who he would ride in today’s Investec Oaks (4.30pm). Earlier this month, in the Cheshire Oaks, the Italian partnered Fanny Logan over stablemate MEHDAAYIH, but he was left toiling [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Back Spencer to Jaz things up for O’Keefe in handicap May 30, 2019 EPSOM handicaps are notoriously difficult puzzles to solve and today’s Investec Wealth & Investment Handicap (3.45pm) is no different. Roger Varian has landed two of the last five renewals and his Mountain Angel is bound to be popular having won over course and distance back in April. He is respected but is now up to [...]
Cricket Betting Tips: Dominant openers can get England off to a flyer again May 29, 2019 A MAJOR part of England’s transformation in One-Day cricket is down to the tone their openers have set. Since Jonny Bairstow replaced Alex Hales at the top of the order, he and Jason Roy have turned into arguably the most feared of all ODI opening duos. They have smashed opposition attacks to all places time [...]