Hard to ignore Bowen’s superb Stats in Summer Plate July 16, 2024 WE’RE also blessed with Jumps action on Saturday in the shape of the Summer Plate and Hurdle at Market Rasen. The Hurdle looks like a devilishly difficult puzzle to solve, so let’s focus on the Plate (3.15pm). Mole Court is a progressive horse for Ben Pauling and currently heads the betting at around 5/1, reopposing [...]
Be Brave and back CP to halt Lui’s path to Glory July 12, 2024 EXPECT Francis Lui to be crowned champion trainer for the first time when Sha Tin hosts the final programme of the 2023/24 season in Hong Kong on Sunday. The 65-year-old may still be one winner behind rival Pierre Ng going into the final day, but it would come as a major disappointment to the stable [...]
Achiever Richards can end this season on the Up July 12, 2024 TRAINER Jamie Richards is capable of securing an end of season boost before the curtain comes down on the 2023/34 season after racing at Sha Tin on Sunday. It is fair to say the current campaign hasn’t gone according to plan for Richards and his stable, with a respectable 30 winners, but nevertheless down on [...]
EP: 283 Newmarket, York, Ascot & Hong Kong July 12, 2024 At the end of an extremely sombre week for British racing, Saturday provides us with what is billed as ‘Super Saturday’ with the July Cup the main attraction. Both York and Ascot also provide racing fans with top-class action on a day we all keep commentator John Hunt and his family close to our hearts. [...]
Awaal to come back with a bang in Bunbury Cup July 9, 2024 NEWMARKET’s July Cup (4.35pm) is the centrepiece of this weekend’s action and it should provide us with the rematch between Inisherin and Vandeek we were deprived of in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot. Inisherin went on to win that race in good style in the absence of his main rival, who missed the Royal [...]
You should take no Liberties with Burke’s Lane at York July 9, 2024 THERE’S also a host of competitive action up at York headlined by the John Smith’s Cup (3.10pm). Sheikh Mohammed Obaid’s familiar yellow and black-silked string make up three towards the head of the betting, and the one that catches my eye is LIBERTY LANE. Karl Burke’s gelding started this season as a horse to follow [...]
Lui and Ng set for a Supreme Valley battle July 9, 2024 EXPECT plenty of celebrations and end-of-season parties when Happy Valley closes its curtain on the 2023/24 season, with another exciting nine-race programme starting at 11.35am today. It has to be said that for many form book students and regular bettors at the city track the season can’t end quickly enough, with unfathomable results a regular [...]
Chilled Shum ready for Chibi to hand him Valley crown July 9, 2024 WHILE all eyes may be on the main protagonists Pierre Ng and Francis Lui in the trainers’ championship race, there is an equally exciting battle going on to be proclaimed King of the Valley. Trainer Caspar Fownes, for so many years the dominant force at the track, lost his mantle last season, and has been [...]
Purton and Hayes to bring Resilience to Sha Tin July 5, 2024 RACING in Hong Kong is coming thick and fast in the closing weeks of the season, with Sha Tin hosting racing for the second time this week, and its 10-race programme on Saturday features a number of exciting prospects who will be looking to end their current campaign on a high, before resting for their [...]
Blink looks a good Ting to Thunder past his rivals July 5, 2024 ALL EYES will be on potentially smart THUNDER BLINK, who puts his unbeaten record on the line, when going for a hat-trick in the Stevenson Cup Handicap (12.05pm) over seven furlongs. The Jimmy Ting trained three-year-old needed every inch of the six-furlong distance when getting up on the line in May, and that was after [...]