Horse Racing Betting Tips: Baritone looks pitch perfect in Old Rowley October 11, 2018 NEWMARKET’S two-day Dubai Future Champions Festival is a precursor to next week’s QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot. The juveniles are the stars of the show, but for most punters the big betting race of the day is the valuable Old Rowley Cup (4.10pm). This 1m4f handicap for three-year-olds is an interesting race, particularly with [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Vis A Vis can land Cesarewitch for that man De Sousa October 11, 2018 HAVING spent hours studying tomorrow’s Dubai £500,000 Cesarewitch Stakes (3.40pm), I have managed to narrow things down to around 20 of the 34 runners in the 2m2f contest! Earlier in the week, I was desperate to be against Willie Mullins’ well-fancied five-year-old Stratum, but the nearer we get to the race, the more I have [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Advertise out to prove he’s a Future Champ October 11, 2018 TOMORROW’S star-studded card at Newmarket should give us plenty of clues ahead of next season, with so many exciting juveniles set to go on trial. The pick of the trio of two-year-old races has to be the Group One Dewhurst Stakes (3.00pm) where John Gosden’s Too Darn Hot, already a warm favourite for both next [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Mr Lumieres set to light up Happy Valley for claimer Poon October 9, 2018 WITH some of the fastest five furlong specialists in Hong Kong lining up in the Class2 handicap at 3.15pm, the phrase ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ certainly springs to mind. If your horse misses the start by a stride, tear your ticket up! In a race around two bends – run at breathtaking speed, with [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: All You Know can go all the way for Whyte October 9, 2018 RACING resumes at Happy Valley this afternoon, but the inner-city track will do well to replicate the drama that unfolded at Hong Kong’s premier course of Sha Tin last Sunday. For the first time in living memory, two first-past-the-post objections were sustained. The last time one horse lost a race in the stewards’ room was [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Sea can show she’s a Class act in the Arc October 4, 2018 AFTER being run at Chantilly for the last two years during the redevelopment of Longchamp, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (3.05pm) returns to its rightful home on Sunday. Europe’s most valuable horse race was won in emphatic fashion by the John Gosden-trained Enable 12 months ago and she’s back to defend her crown. The [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Battaash out to blow Abbaye rivals away for a second time October 4, 2018 WHEN the Charlie Hills-trained BATTAASH is on his A-game, there isn’t a better turf sprinter in the world, and he can bounce back in Sunday’s Prix de L’Abbaye (4.35pm). For whatever reason, he hasn’t performed at his best in the last two renewals of the Nunthorpe at York, having looked unbeatable on his previous starts [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Classy Chimes to put the Wind in Fabre’s sail October 4, 2018 WITH the eyes of the racing world firmly fixed on Paris and Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe meeting, it’s a bit rich that the French trainers want to come over here and plunder the UK’s only Group One prize this weekend. But that’s exactly what they’ve been doing in recent years in the Sun [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Apprentice Victor Wong can soar to victory on fast-starting Eagle October 2, 2018 CLAIMING apprentices continue to be worth their weight in gold in Hong Kong. The likes of Dylan Mo, Matthew Poon and Jack Wong have already ridden nine winners between them in opening weeks, but it’s the newest recruit, Victor Wong, who has made the biggest impact this season. The 24-year-old has already won five times [...]
Hong Kong Horse Racing Tips: Yeung looks the Clear Choice for Valley punters October 2, 2018 PUNTERS may have had a tough time in the opening weeks of the season in Hong Kong, but results at Sha Tin on Monday’s bank holiday card finally confirmed that normal service has been resumed. Champion trainer John Size was back in the limelight, saddling the one-two in the Group Three National Day Cup, while [...]