Horseracing: David Pipe’s City AM Column November 1, 2018 ALL THIS dry weather is a bit of a nightmare when you are trying to train horses – it makes planning ahead hard as we just cannot run them on ground this quick. Exeter stage their big Haldon Gold Cup meeting next week and the ground is currently described as good-to-firm. It’s so frustrating, but [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: This Boy looks a Classic bet at Breeders’ Cup November 1, 2018 HATS off to trainer John Gosden for opting to roll the dice and send stable stars Enable and Roaring Lion over to Kentucky this weekend for the Breeders’ Cup. The former is set to tackle tomorrow night’s Turf (8.56pm), while the latter runs in the Classic (9.44pm), the feature race of the meeting. If the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Geordie can be Sodexo Champ for bang in form Curtis stable November 1, 2018 NATIONAL Hunt trainers must be tearing their hair out at the moment. Last season all it did was rain, now they would give anything for a downpour or four. The majority of jump horses need a little dig in the ground, yet Wetherby have had to water all week just to maintain the surface as [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Elusive State out to bag the hat-trick for Sha Tin punters October 30, 2018 FORMER South African champion trainer Tony Millard has made his best ever start in Hong Kong since joining the trainer ranks back in 2000. With 13 winners already on the board, and currently joint leader in the trainers’ title race, he is on fire. He saddles four runners at Sha Tin this afternoon and all [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Borntoachieve looks set to roll back the years October 30, 2018 BETTORS in Hong Kong can look forward to an afternoon of entertainment on the all-weather track at Sha Tin today. Dirt racing under floodlights can pose numerous problems when trying to find winners, especially with the temperature likely to be in the mid-to-high twenties, but humidity is low for this time of year. How much [...]
Horseracing: David Pipe’s City AM column October 25, 2018 I AM delighted to be writing my first column in City AM today as the jumps season really starts to get going at Cheltenham this afternoon. Frustratingly, we don’t have any runners today as we haven’t got that winter ground yet. Cheltenham can’t be blamed, and they have done an excellent job producing the good, [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Excellent jumper Martre set for Big things this season October 25, 2018 TODAY is the day National Hunt enthusiasts have been waiting for since April, Cheltenham’s first fixture of the new season. The two-day Showcase meeting has become increasingly popular in recent years, with a nice spread of competitive handicaps and decent novice events. This afternoon’s action looks very competitive, so I’m going to focus on tomorrow’s [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Magna Grecia looks a great bet to give O’Brien his ninth Futurity October 25, 2018 TRADITIONALISTS will keep calling it the Racing Post Trophy for a while, but tomorrow sees Doncaster’s one mile Group One contest run for the first time as the Vertem Futurity Trophy (4.05pm). Some top class horses have won it over the years and last year’s renewal produced an incredible finish with Saxon Warrior just denying [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Purton out to electrify Happy Valley punters with Raichu October 23, 2018 IT’S A rare occurrence in Hong Kong racing when a jockey is retained by a stable. Trainer John Moore has done it twice in recent times while the mooted return of Joao Moreira as stable jockey for John Size in December will be another rare association. With no jockeys’ agents allowed in Hong Kong, unless [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Mauritian magician Teetan can Blitz to glory for connections October 23, 2018 REGULAR Hong Kong punters face a headache when racing resumes at Happy Valley this afternoon. It’s tough enough trying to find winners around this sharp and turning circuit, but when racing takes place on the notorious ‘C+3’ track, which is just wide enough to get a dozen starting stalls across the course, luck is going [...]