Festivals
Glorious Goodwood selections Tuesday 30th July Glorious Goodwood gets underway on Tuesday and conditions will certainly Glorious on what is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far in the South East. The ground which has been on the soft side for the past week, has...
Royal Ascot selections Saturday 22nd June We come to the end of another high octane week at Royal Ascot and the action is every bit as good today for the finale. The sprinters take centre stage with the Group 1 Jubilee Stakes and the second big betting bonanza of...
Royal Ascot selections Friday 21st June The fillies take centre stage on Friday with several races restricted to the female gender. There is plenty of variety to enjoy however and perhaps the best bet comes in the Duke of Edinburgh Handicap. In all I have selected four races to...
Royal Ascot selections Thursday 20th June Gold Cup day at Ascot, although in truth I find it difficult to get an angle on the big race as it looks tough to oppose the back to form Kyprios. There are plenty of other races to get stuck into though. I...
Royal Ascot selections Wednesday 19th June Day Two at Ascot and another fine day means the fast ground that was in place yesterday, remains for today. There was plenty to enjoy from the Group 1 races yesterday and the single Group 1 on the card today promises to be...
Royal Ascot selections Tuesday 17th June The opening day of five for the Royal meeting and, as usual the Tuesday provides probably the most consistently classy racing of the week. Three Group 1’s kick us off and the St James’ Palace features the winner of all three of the...
Epsom selections Saturday 1st June Derby Day at Epsom and in truth this does not look a vintage renewal of the feature race with favourite City of Troy having blotted his copybook in the Guineas and several other fancied contenders having fallen by the wayside in recent weeks for...
Epsom selections Friday 31st May The opening day at Epsom sees the Oaks as the featured attraction and the meeting will take place on ground that will be much less of a quagmire than might have been feared at the start of the week. The Aidan O’Brien team have...
Chester selections Thursday 9th May The second day of the Chester May meeting looks set to be run in glorious conditions and therefore I am looking for horses who will act well on the drying ground. We had the forecast in our latest column at Newmarket on Sunday in...
Newmarket selections Sunday 5th May The final day of the Guineas meeting at Newmarket and we have an unusually open 1000 Guineas with many bookies going 4/1 the field at present. I have one selection for the big race, plus two for the preceding handicap on the card. We...
