By Ian Grimwood 1.55 Goodwood This could be a straight fight between ROCK N ROLL RANSOM and WADNAAN. The former comes here unbeaten after two career wins and a mark of 88 is unlikely to be the limit of his ability. Both his two runs to date have come over 1m but his pedigree suggests this longer [...]
Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Ian Grimwood 2.10 Goodwood If we take at face value DUNCAN’s 3 ¼ length defeat behind Harbinger at Royal Ascot we see that John Gosden’s runner must be the one the rest have to beat here. The stable saw Arctic Cosmos run with credit in the Gordon Stakes on Tuesday (finishing 3rd) and although Duncan hasn’t [...]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Ian Grimwood A big thank you to Neil for stepping in for me on my absence from the office for the last two days. 2.10 Goodwood AATTASH hails from a Mick Channon stable that hasn’t really been amongst the winners of late but his last time out victory has been franked impressively by the runner-up that day [...]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
by Neil Hubbard 2.10 Goodwood A minefield this one but the obvious one could be Royal Ascot winner JUNIOR. The handicapper has raised him 8lb for winning the Ascot Stakes but with so few races run over such marathon rips as this (2m 5f) it’s difficult to know if that will stop him following up. It may [...]
Monday, July 26, 2010
by Neil Hubbard With Ian away enjoying a well earned break I step into the breach this week for what is always a top quality week of action from arguably the world’s most picturesque racecourse. 2.10 Goodwood Start as we mean to go on, a fiendishly difficult handicap featuring plenty of possible sorts. It is well documented how [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Welcome to the Glorious Goodwood Service Updates Area. Updates to each race from this season’s Glorious Goodwood will be posted directly to this area of bettrends.co.uk. This ensures that they can be viewed on-line as soon as they become available from any PC, wherever you are, without the need to log on to your e-mail account. [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Glorious Goodwood is one of the highlights of the flat racing season, offering five days of top-class action in its picturesque surroundings. It can be a notorious difficult meeting from a punting point of view but help is at hand in the form of the Glorious Goodwood Service. Expertly written by Ian Grimwood, author of the Summer [...]
Friday, July 9, 2010
By James Cochrane Holland v Spain After 63 games we finally reach the final of the 2010 World Cup. It started with South Africa against Mexico and it ends with Holland against Spain. When Spain lost to Switzerland in their opening game a place in the final looked a long way off and talk was of them not [...]
Friday, July 30, 2010