Tips
One from the tracker at Sandown — Encounter was the danger we flagged when Gymbaazy won at 33/1 last month, and a clear case of interference cost him that day. Ryan Moore in the saddle tells you the yard mean business.
Three bets today from Fairyhouse, Epsom and Bath — a notebook flag, a trainer angle that the market keeps ignoring, and a course specialist who’s done it twice here already under the same rider. June ends in the red but the strike rate tells a better story than the bottom line; back at it with three solid reasons to be interested.
Three bets today across Kempton and Windsor — pedigree edge in a novice that lacks it, a tracker horse dropping back in trip with enough to like about the race despite the reservations, and a third-time selection who’s been knocking on the door long enough that he owes us one in a grade he should be winning.
The four UK cards didn’t have anything overly jumping out at me, despite a few running who have been on the radar, but there was one runner for a prolific yard over at Ballinrobe in Ireland who I couldn’t ignore.
Three bets across Brighton and Pontefract today — two each-way chances at prices and a course specialist who has form figures at Pontefract that read like a broken record. After a frustrating weekend, there’s reason to think the handicapper has left at least one of these ahead of his mark.
Two bets today — one from a Ascot where a Palmer stat sealed the decision and one from Doncaster where a horse I’ve been following since a penalty run finally gets a fair crack at the weights in a handicap.
Two big prices at Royal Ascot on Day Two — A 40/1 shot in the Royal Hunt Cup and a 28/1 chance in the Fillies’ and Mares’ Handicap. Both each-way plays with genuine claims. Also a look back at Yesterday with one who should be in every notebook after a badly hampered run in the Coventry.
One bet on the day with a big priced outsider chanced for a yard who hold a fantastic record in the race stretching back to 2009.
Two Win bets today, at Doncaster and Salisbury — one a full sister to a Group 1 winner, the other a notebook filly running off a mark that looks too kind. The case for both inside, plus a few others across the cards.
After a welcome 33/1 winner yesterday, today’s three are a braver kind of bet — two out-of-form types and an unexposed filly, each-way at prices worth the gamble across York, Hexham and Leicester.