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...
Newmarket & Punchestown selections Saturday 4th May One of the great racing days of the calendar with the final day of the jumps season in Ireland closing off the Punchestown Festival. Allied with that we have the first classic of the season on the flat with the 2000 Guineas...
Aintree selections Saturday 13th April Grand National day has arrived and the Irish challenge is stronger than ever accounting for 28 of the 33 runners. All three of my big race selections have travelled across the Irish Sea. However it would be folly to ignore the rest of an...
Aintree selections Friday 12th April Things get very much tougher from a punting perspective on Day Two of the Aintree Grand National meeting with thee large field handicaps including the Topham over the big obstacles. Even the Grade 1 contests look far more open than yesterday’s. I am going...
Aintree selections Thursday 11th April The opening day of three at Aintree and the card as ever is now full of classy horses from start to finish – this meeting is no longer about the Grand National alone. We kick off with four consecutive Grade 1 races, which I...
This week saw the latest set of entries for the Grand National, to be run on 13th April at Aintree and despite the withdrawal of top weight Hewick, who will be aimed at a Grade 1 Chase at the meeting earlier in the week, we have a top quality...
