Palmer to continue his love story with gutsy filly Covert August 20, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS DAY TWO OF YORK’S EBOR FESTIVAL THE weather gods haven’t exactly shined on the Knavesmire so far this week. We were all expecting a dry few days, but it bucketed down on Tuesday night resulting in good to soft ground for the start of the meeting. It’s difficult to know exactly how [...]
Ryan’s Ashadihan can cause an upset in the Lowther August 19, 2015 ANYONE who witnessed Mark Johnston’s two-year-old filly Lumiere waltz away with her maiden at Newmarket’s July meeting will understand why she is such a warm order for this afternoon’s Lowther Stakes (2.30pm). It wasn’t what the daughter of Shamardal beat that day, it was the effortless way she quickened away from her seven rivals with [...]
Gleneagles set to spoil Dettori’s Golden summer August 19, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS THE OPENING DAY OF YORK’S EBOR FESTIVAL IF THE rain stays away, and there are no last minute injury scares, we will get our race of the season on the Knavesmire this afternoon. An all-star cast of eight are set to line-up for the Juddmonte International Stakes (3.40pm), including unbeaten Investec Derby [...]
Storm The Stars to cement Leger favouritism in Betway Great Voltigeur August 18, 2015 TRAINER Aidan O’Brien saddles three of the seven runners in the wide-open Betway Great Voltigeur Stakes (3.05pm), but the Ballydoyle trio may have their work cut out to stop STORM THE STARS who is available at 7/2 with the sponsors. William Haggas has his team in great nick and landed two valuable pots last weekend [...]
Here comes the rain so go with Balding inmate August 14, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS TOMORROW’S RACING WITH more biblical rain expected to fall on Berkshire today, there is every chance that tomorrow’s Hungerford Stakes (3.45pm) at Newbury will be run on unseasonably soft ground. When bookmakers priced up the Group Two seven furlong contest earlier in the week the likes of Safety Check, Home Of The [...]
Champions Chelsea can prove their class August 14, 2015 ACCORDING to the bookies the title is set to be fought out between these two clubs and just a week into the new season we have the first big battle. It just shows how fickle the betting markets have become that the favourites for the league have flip-flopped after Chelsea drew at home to Swansea [...]
Aston Villa v Manchester United: Expect goals galore at Villa Park August 14, 2015 The after work drinks crowd will come face-to-face with an unusual sight tonight: Premier League football. A one-off for this season it will give a flavour of things to come next year, when Friday evening fixtures are part of the new TV deal for 2016-17. The clash between Aston Villa and Manchester United looks an [...]
Happy Hammers can outfox Leicester at the Boleyn August 13, 2015 If there was a manager of the week trophy then Slaven Bilic and Claudio Ranieri would have been strong contenders after the first round of matches. Having masterminded the result of the opening weekend with a 2-0 win against Arsenal at the Emirates Bilic would have got my vote, but with Ranieri a close second [...]
Russ wiseman August 13, 2015 THIS is always a really exciting time of year and everything looks set for a fantastic few days of football. Sportingbet are dangling a rather large carrot to punters – we’re going to add 25% to winning football accumulators this weekend. It’s great that we’ve got a Premier League game to get stuck into tonight [...]
Crystal Palace v Arsenal: Gunners to bounce back from surprise opening defeat August 13, 2015 Former glazier Alan Pardew has moved on from installing windows as a part-time player to breaking through glass ceilings as a manager. He might not be everyone’s cup of tea but his CV bears comparison with any other British manager in the Premier League. Pardew led Reading and West Ham to promotions, took Newcastle into [...]