Horse Racing Betting Tips: Classy Skyline can give Elsworth more Goodwood success August 1, 2019 A NUMBER of runners in tomorrow’s Qatar Summer Handicap (2.25pm) will have aspirations of taking part in the Sky Bet Ebor at the end of the month. Like with many of Goodwood’s tricky handicaps, the market is headed by a Mark Johnston runner. He saddles King’s Advice who bids to give his trainer a third [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Fallon set for Raucous ride in his first Stewards’ Cup August 1, 2019 BACK in 1861 as many as 45 horses lined up for the Stewards’ Cup (3.40pm), though not all of them passed the starting tape due to a severe lack of competent jockeys. The number of starters for tomorrow’s £250,000 six-furlong cavalry charge now stands at 28 and you can be sure that every member of [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Maqsad can serve it up to Hermosa in Nassau Stakes July 31, 2019 THERE isn’t a race I have been looking forward to more all week than this afternoon’s Qatar Nassau Stakes (3.35pm). When the entries first came out my eyes were immediately drawn to dual 1000 Guineas winner HERMOSA who finally steps up to the trip she has seemingly been crying out for. The daughter of Galileo [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Glitters can go well but may find one Too Darn Hot July 30, 2019 BACK in 2015, Qatar ploughed huge sums of money into the Qatar Goodwood Festival (aka Glorious Goodwood) and the main beneficiary was the Qatar Sussex Stakes (3.35pm), which is now worth a cool £1million. It is one of the most valuable mile races in the world and the majority of the prize money went back [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: More Glorious winners await Tudhope with Dubawi Fifty July 30, 2019 THERE are very few Flat racesstarted by a flag and possibly the most famous is today’s opening Unibet Goodwood Handicap (1.50pm), run over 2m4½f. Founded in 1823, this is one of Goodwood’s oldest races and is always popular with racegoers because the runners start in front of the stands, going the reverse way down the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: De Bromhead pair can leave Poker Party players feeling flush July 30, 2019 HIGH class action doesn’t just come from Glorious Goodwood this week, with the seven-day Galway Festival taking place on the other side of the Irish Sea as well. With racing across both codes, there is something for everyone and it’s in this evening’s highlight, the Galway Plate (7.20pm), where I’m hoping Henry De Bromhead can [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Suedois can make it third time lucky in Lennox Stakes July 29, 2019 IF AT first you don’t succeed, try and try again. That’s the motto by which SUEDOIS and the David O’Meara camp are sticking to as they bid to land this afternoon’s Qatar Lennox Stakes (3.00pm) after two near misses in recent seasons. The evergreen eight-year-old suffered traffic problems before rattling home to finish third only [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Pinatubo to mount another big challenge in Vintage renewal July 29, 2019 RARELY can I remember a more appropriate name for a race than the Vintage Stakes (2.25pm) at Goodwood this afternoon. There may only be seven declared, but it has the potential to be one of the best two-year-old races run in either England or Ireland so far this season. Not only do we have the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Cross Counter out to silence hat-trick seeking Stradivarius July 29, 2019 PLENTY are still talking about Saturday’s epic King George duel between Enable and Crystal Ocean which is quite rightly being billed as one of the greatest races of the modern era. Remarkably, only a few days later, there is the potential for another titanic tussle with the first, second and fourth home from last month’s [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Could be Addeybb to remember if forecast rain arrives July 25, 2019 WHILE most of the UK have been reaching for the sun cream this week, it could be a very different story over the weekend if the weather forecasters are to be believed. Rain is expected at York and if it falls heavily the complexion of tomorrow’s Sky Bet York Stakes (3.15pm) will change completely. If [...]