Racing betting: Tombstone and Zabana can advertise Festival credentials February 4, 2016 Leopardstown stages a mouth-watering eight-race card on Saturday with the feature being the Grade One Irish Gold Cup (3.40pm). Last season’s Lexus Chase winner and Cheltenham Gold Cup third Road To Riches is currently a best-priced 4/5 with Betway and will take plenty of beating if back on song. He looked as good as ever on [...]
Racing betting: Bob’s your uncle in West Wales National February 4, 2016 Ffos Las stages its biggest meeting of the year on Saturday and the ground is certain to be incredibly testing. This has resulted in the course reducing the distance of the West Wales National (3.15pm) by three furlongs after last year's controversial race, where just two finished. I'm not looking any further than the winner from [...]
Racing betting: No Planning required for in-form Sue Smith at Doncaster January 28, 2016 Regular readers of this column will know that we have had a cracking start to 2016 with three consecutive decent price winners all trained by women. Kerry Lee’s pair Mountainous (14/1) and Russe Blanc (20/1) were followed into the winners’ enclosure last week by Sue Smith’s Cloudy Too (7/1). And I’m sticking with another Smith-trained [...]
Football betting: West Ham aiming to beat Liverpool in FA Cup and complete historic treble January 28, 2016 Before this season it had been 52 years since West Ham did the double over Liverpool. Now, with Premier League wins at Anfield and the Boleyn Ground under their belts, Slaven Bilic’s side return to Merseyside in the FA Cup tomorrow looking to make it a treble. The Hammers have scored five unanswered goals, with [...]
Football betting: FA Cup upset on the cards for Manchester United at Derby January 28, 2016 Louis van Gaal heads into Manchester United’s FA Cup fourth round tie against Derby on Friday in a similar situation to Sir Alex Ferguson 26 years ago. Mark Robins scored the only goal in a 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup third round in January 1990 with Ferguson reportedly one defeat away from [...]
Racing betting: Cloudy Too can brighten up Haydock in Saturday’s Peter Marsh Chase January 21, 2016 Even though frost has been the big worry this week, Haydock looks set to race on Saturday and the ground is going to be absolutely bottomless. We’ve had a good run of things over the past fortnight, thanks to Kerry Lee’s exploits with Mountainous and Russe Blanc. Unfortunately the rookie trainer doesn’t have a runner [...]
Racing betting: Clarence House Chase looks a race to savour but save your money for other Ascot races January 21, 2016 Ascot plays host to a mouth-watering clash between Betway Champion Chase hopefuls Un De Sceaux and Sire De Grugy in Saturday's Sodexo Clarence House Chase (3.00pm). Some bookmakers go as short as 4/7 about the former who is on the comeback trail after falling on his seasonal reappearance at Leopardstown. It seems strange to have [...]
Football betting: No home comforts for Manchester City as West Ham aim for double January 21, 2016 Things have changed an awful lot at Upton Park in the last couple of years. In January 2014 Manchester City beat a hapless West Ham 9-0 on aggregate in the League Cup semi-finals, with the Hammers stuck near the bottom of the Premier League. As they prepare to welcome City again on Saturday, Slaven Bilic’s [...]
Kennedy to prove he’s a star of the future on Woodford Island December 17, 2015 Ascot hosts an intriguing card on Friday afternoon. Alan King will be hoping that Yanworth continues his unbeaten record over hurdles in the Supreme Novices’ Trial (1.55pm). However, with just the four rivals he’s going to be very short indeed. The conditional jockeys’ handicap hurdle (3.05pm) features a really interesting contender in WOODFORD ISLAND, who makes the [...]
Quirky Renneti is ready to land a big prize for Mullins December 17, 2015 Trainer Harry Fry saddled the well-fancied Activial to finish third in last season’s Ladbroke Hurdle (3.35pm) and the market suggests that the talented young trainer can go a couple of places better on Saturday. In-form Fry opted not to give Activial a prep race 12 months ago, but this time brings a race-fit and unexposed [...]