Racing betting: Western Hymn to answer John Gosden’s prayers again April 21, 2016 In-form trainer John Gosden picked up five winners at Newmarket’s Craven Meeting earlier this month and landed the Investec Derby Trial on Wednesday with exciting Oaks prospect So Mi Dar. On Friday he’s at Sandown for their first flat card of the season where, last year, he bagged a hat-trick. WESTERN HYMN was one of those [...]
Racing betting: Neil Mulholland can Master his rivals in Sandown highlight April 21, 2016 In recent years Sandown’s National Hunt season finale has been a little formulaic – no-one has had much of a look-in except AP McCoy and Paul Nicholls. But this year is going to be different. As we all know, McCoy has retired and the whole jumping fraternity will be united in celebration on Saturday for Richard [...]
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary wants to retire his Grand National-winning horse Rule The World April 10, 2016 Owner Michael O’Leary wants to retire Rule The World after the injury-plagued nine-year-old defied odds of 33-1 to win the Grand National on Saturday at Aintree. Ryanair chief executive O’Leary fears that further outings could risk damaging a horse who has battled back from two pelvic fractures, but has vowed to leave the decision to [...]
Who will win the Grand National? Racing betting: Irish raider Goonyella can slog his way to glory April 7, 2016 Saturday's 169th running of the Crabbie’s Grand National, with its new later start time of 5.15pm, looks set to be watched by a staggering global audience in excess of 600m. Channel 4’s coverage will also be viewed by more than 30,000 British troops and personnel serving overseas thanks to a deal between British Forces Broadcasting Services, [...]
Who will win the Grand National? Racing betting: Mouse Morris’s Dromnea and Gordon Elliott’s Killer Crow fancied in the Topham April 7, 2016 Day two of the Grand National meeting sees the professional jockeys have their first taste of the Grand National fences in the Topham (Friday 4.05pm). In the last 10 years, Nicky Henderson and Peter Bowen have both won this race four times. If that pattern is to continue, there is only one option for punters: Cocktails [...]
Grand National meeting betting tips: Sizing John can seize the day for Henry De Bromhead April 6, 2016 We will never know whether or not CUE CARD would have gone on to win last month’s Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup had he not crashed out at the third last. However, one thing for sure is that Colin Tizzard’s six-time Grade One-winning stable star was travelling ominously well before falling and would have given the [...]
Racing betting: David O’Meara holds key to Betway Lincoln March 31, 2016 You know that spring is well and truly here when we’re talking about the Betway Lincoln (Saturday 2.45pm), Doncaster’s traditional curtain-raiser to the British Flat season. Normally this meeting clashes with the Dubai World Cup, but due to the early Easter we’re fortunate to have leading jockeys like Ryan Moore, William Buick, James Doyle and new [...]
Racing betting: Belardo a cut above the rest in Doncaster Mile March 31, 2016 Sanwiched in the middle of Saturday's seven-race card at Doncaster is the Listed Betway Doncaster Mile (3.55pm). There is no shortage of class in the race with the 117-rated pair of Custom Cut, a winner of no less than six Group contests, and BELARDO both going to post. Custom Cut was a revelation in 2014, [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Don Poli can land Gold Cup for Davy Russell March 17, 2016 There are likely to be only nine runners in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup (Friday 3.30pm), but what the field lacks in numbers it more than makes up for in quality. Don Cossack heads the majority of bookmakers’ lists and nobody would begrudge trainer Gordon Elliott and jockey Bryan Cooper a win in the week’s [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Forget Victoria Pendleton, Paint The Clouds finally has ideal conditions to eclpise Victoria Pendleton in St James’s Place Foxhunter Chase March 17, 2016 All eyes will be on Victoria Pendleton when she completes the most extraordinary ‘Switching Saddles’ challenge and rides Pacha Du Polder in the St James’s Place Foxhunter Chase (Friday 4.10pm). The former Olympic cyclist had barely even sat on a horse this time last year and it’s astonishing that she is now riding in the hustle and [...]