Canford Cliffs v Frankel – the race everyone wants
One of the long awaited head-to-heads at this year’s Royal Ascot meeting took place on Tuesday in the opening race – the Queen Anne Stakes, with Richard Hannon’s Canford Cliffs taking on the French Mare Goldikova.
On this occasion it was the Hannon-trained Canford Cliffs who came out on top and reaffirmed his position as the best older miler in the World and in doing so he completed the remarkable feat of winning on the opening day of Royal Ascot in each of the past three years. Fans of horse race betting online will know just how good he looked.
The son of Tagula took the Coventry at two, and the St James´s Palace Stakes last year, and he was a ready winner of the Lockinge on…
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Tominator shows Reg still has what it takes
Reg Hollinshead, at 86 Britain’s oldest licensed racehorse trainer, enjoyed one of his biggest success for many years when his Tominator at horse race betting odds of 25/1 ran out a brave winner of the stamina sapping John Smith’s Northumberland Plate – ‘The Pitman’s Derby’ – at Newcastle on Saturday, writes Elliot Slater.
Given a tremendous ride by young apprentice Paul Pickard (enjoying by far the biggest success of his fledgling career), Tominator was held up off a strong pace set by last year’s winner Overturn, before coming through with the cavalry to challenge Don McCain’s horse then staying-on strongly in the rain-softened ground to beat the determined Montaff by a length and three quarters, with Deauville Flyer third and Petara Bay coming home in fourth.
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Byword back in form with Chantilly victory
Prince Khaled Abdullah’s smart colt Byword returned to form with a vengeance at Chantilly at the weekend having disappointed on his previous two outings last month, and now looks set to be seen in a number of top eight and ten furlong contests later on this term, writes Elliot Slater.
The five-year-old son of Peintre Celebre had looked somewhat below-par when only fifth to Goldikova in the Prix d’Isaphan at Longchamp three weeks ago, but a drop in class coupled with the sensational form being shown by his trainer Andre Fabre produced the desired effect as the talented performer showed he is no back number in winning the Group 3 Prix de Chemin Du Fer Du Nord by a cosy three quarters of a length from the useful sort…
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Ocean War the sole Godolphin Derby representative
Although their arch rivals Ballydoyle are set to saddle four or even five runners in Saturday’s Investec Derby at Epsom, Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation will rely on just Ocean War, a recent winner at Newmarket, as their sole hope of winning the coveted race for the very first time, writes Elliot Slater.
At the start of this term it looked as though Godolphin could well have their strongest hand ever for the Epsom Derby with both Dubai Prince and Casamento being favoured in the ante-post Derby betting odds, but after Dubai Prince met with a training setback and Casamento ran poorly in the Qipco 2000 Guineas at HQ at the end of April, Derby candidates for the ‘Boys in Blue’ were looking decidedly thin on the ground…
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Captain Dunne ‘done’ on the line
The fractions between success and failure in the racing game can be little more than a hair’s breadth, and that is just about the distance that Tim Easterby’s Captain Dunne was beaten by fellow British raider Inxile at Longchamp on Sunday in a thrilling climax to the Group 3 Prix de Saint Georges, writes Elliot Slater.
Easterby’s six-year-old led everywhere bar the line having shown tremendous early pace that had most of his rivals at full stretch and toiling in his wake. It was only inside the final furlong that the pack started to close, with Inxile (21/10f) bursting through a gap on the rails under trainer’s son Adrian Nicholls, while local challenger Split Trois finished with a serious turn of foot to force a three-way photo which to…
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Oaks possible Rain impresses with Newbury win
Former champion jockey Keiren Fallon, who picked up a 10-day ban earlier in the week which rules him out of the Guineas meeting at the end of the month, seems keen to crack on and post as many winners as possible before his enforced break and landed a 75/1 double at Newbury on Friday initiated by the impressive success of Dancing Rain in the second division of the Robert Sangster Memorial Maiden Fillies’ Stakes, writes Elliot Slater.
Trained by William Haggas, the Danehill Dancer filly was always prominent in the 10-furlong contest leading before halfway, but then appeared to have her work cut out as she was joined by John Gosden’s Highest and the Barry Hills-trained favourite Tasheyaat with two furlongs to travel. With Fallon at his strongest and…
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Following the top trainers at York races
Racing at York is a competitive affair with the majority of the races fiercely contested often by sizeable fields especially in the handicaps which can often be fiendishly difficult puzzles set by the handicapper.
So who are the trainers to follow at York and ones to keep on your side when having a bet on the Knavesmire. Taking the last five seasons of racing at York as our guide not many meetings go past without a team from the Richard Fahey stable – numerically over the last five years Fahey has sent an astonishing 440 runners to York, that has seen him capture 49 successes but with only an 11.14% strike rate you would have lost £59.20 backing all of his runners at the track. In terms of winners…
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Somersby still in line for a crack at the Queen Mother
Speculation has been rife in the last few days that Henrietta Knight will switch her stable star Somersby from the Queen Mother Champion Chase to the Ryanair Chase, a potentially intriguing prospect for punters who will no doubt be keeping a close eye on the situation.
However, the latest it could well be that Knight has opted to stick to the original plan. Fifteen runners have stood their ground at the latest entry stage of the race and all the big players are still in the mix, including Somersby. The way things are shaping up we should be in for a really interesting renewal of the race and will no doubt have attracted plenty of Cheltenham 2011 bets.
In his latest start the eight-year-old produced a career…
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