by ANNIE DALE It’s tempting to have a bet on the selection of horse races that take place every day but working out how best to pick winning horse racing tips comes with its obstacles. There’s no way of guaranteeing horse tips for today that are certain to win but you’re given the option to …[Read More]
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Nov 2018
Can forgotten horse Coneygree bounce back?
CHELTENHAM’S November meeting is gaining traction. It’s a bit of a mini Festival and increasing numbers of Irish visitors are hopping across the Channel for it. The BetVictor Gold Cup and Greatwood Hurdles are the two features but one of my favourite races is the 3m 3f BetVictor Handicap Chase. This year could see the …[Read More]
04
Nov 2018
Accumulating Winnings At The Cheltenham Festival
by ANNIE DALE For horse racing fans – and indeed fans of quality sport in general – there are few better events than the four marvellous days in March of the Cheltenham Festival. The very best of the racing talent from both sides of the Irish Sea descendS upon the Prestbury Park venue for what …[Read More]
02
Oct 2018
Lord Glitters on track for QE11
LORD Glitters is still on course for the QIPCO Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Champions Day. That’s despite a below-par run in the Woodbine Mile at Canada last month. David O’Meara’s grey was a leading fancy for the Grade One pot but got played up before the start and never got into the race, finishing …[Read More]
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Sep 2018
Enable v Sea Of Class in Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
GIRL power has been to the fore in the past 18 months on the flat. The lofty exploits of Enable last season were unlikely to be bettered during this campaign but Alpha Centauri, Laurens and Sea Of Class have all earned huge plaudits. So it is no great surprise that two of these fillies dominate …[Read More]
07
Sep 2018
Mubtasim can strike at Ascot
TODAY ENABLE (2.05) takes centre stage at Kempton as she makes her comeback from injury. It’s no betting heat as she jousts with Crystal Ocean but more a race to maintain a watching brief. Hopefully she comes through unscathed and can go to Paris next month to try to retain her Prix de l’Arc de …[Read More]
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Aug 2018
Mabs Cross in Nunthorpe tilt
MICHAEL Dods has already done it twice. Now he is aiming to do it again. Speed freak Mecca’s Angel won back-to-back renewals of the Coolmore Nunthorpe in 2015 and 2016. Now sprint specialist Dods is hoping that Mabs Cross can follow in the hoof-prints of his former star in the Nunthorpe at York on August …[Read More]
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Jul 2018
Expert Eye supplemented for Sussex Stakes
Without Parole and supplementary entry Expert Eye are among 13 horses going for the £1,066,250 G1 Qatar Sussex Stakes over a mile, the centrepiece of the meeting on the second day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival next Wednesday. Both three-year-olds won at Royal Ascot on their latest starts, with Without Parole maintaining his unbeaten record in the mile G1 …[Read More]
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Jul 2018
A Weekend In Paris: Plan a trip to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
by ANNIE DALE PARIS may be considered the most romantic city in the world but it also provides one of the greatest races in the horse racing calendar. A two-day festival, the big race takes place on October 7 and returns to the famous Longchamp after being held in Chantilly for the past two years. …[Read More]
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Jul 2018
Can Forest Ranger spring a surprise?
JOCKEY Tony Hamilton is hoping the Richard Fahey-trained Forest Ranger can upstage Classic winners Masar and Saxon Warrior in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown and provide him with the biggest success of his career. The Group One summer showpiece, which forms part of the 35-race QIPCO British Champions Series, has drawn a final field of eight. It carries prize …[Read More]
