Saturday 1st August 1.45 Thirsk I am not sure how relevant this is but AUTOCRACY was very well fancied ahead of his debut at Sandown last Thursday and was eventually sent off the 11/4 favourite. However, this half-brother to the Group 1 winner Reverence wasn’t handed the easiest of draws and failed to have any [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009
BLUESQUARE.COM STEWARDS’ CUP – GOODWOOD, Aug 1st If you were to adhere strictly to all of the trends you would end up with a sort list with nothing on it, as all of the runners have a failing in one area or another and that clearly isn’t acceptable in one of the major betting heats [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009
Saturday 1st August 1.55 Goodwood – Bluesquarepoker.com Stakes This is a tricky looking opener where a case could be made for most of the runners. BECAUSEWECAN remains unexposed over this sort of trip and looks on a winnable mark based on his staying on third over a furlong further on Wednesday. Neil Callan takes [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday 31st July 2.10 Goodwood – Coutts Glorious Stakes Mark Johnston has won this race three times in the last decade, the last of which was Crosspeace in 2006. Owned by a Favourites Racing syndicate, he had won the 1m2f heritage handicap on day one of the Festival prior to scoring under Royston Ffrench. Jump [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday 31st July 2.10 Goodwood – Coutts Glorious Stakes Mark Johnston has won this race three times in the last decade, the last of which was Crosspeace in 2006. Owned by a Favourites Racing syndicate, he had won the 1m2f heritage handicap on day one of the Festival prior to scoring under Royston Ffrench. Jump [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
TOTESPORT MILE – GOODWOOD, July 31st There are some very strong trends surrounding the Totesport Mile, so we should be able to whittle the 22 runners down to a respectable short list. The first area to consider is the trend surrounding age. Four and five-year-olds have very similar records on a par for par basis [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thursday 30th July 2.10 Goodwood – Summer Vase Stakes Only two horses have carried more than 9st to victory in this race in the last decade and both of those were trained by Mark Johnston so let’s have a look at his runners first. ROMAN REPUBLIC was an impressive winner on his reappearance at Doncaster [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thursday 30th July 2.10 Goodwood – Summer Vase Stakes Only two horses have carried more than 9st to victory in this race in the last decade and both of those were trained by Mark Johnston so let’s have a look at his runners first. ROMAN REPUBLIC was an impressive winner on his reappearance at Doncaster [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009