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Derby day wagers and one for the Oaks

Who would have thought it? After four Classic races this season on both sides of the Irish Sea, the score between the trainers from the two nations...

31.05.2024 30

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Two bets at Haydock and one for France

Horses drawn high had a considerable advantage in the big sprint races at Haydock a year ago and I suspect it will be same again tomorrow, even though...

24.05.2024 10

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Two long shots for Newbury tomorrow

The classiest race this weekend is the Group 1 Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at Newbury (tomorrow, 3.35 p.m.) in which the French-trained Big Rock and...

17.05.2024 20

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Four bets at Chester and Ascot

There is so much to like about Chester’s three-day May meeting ending today: a unique course with an atmosphere to match, quality racehorses,...

10.05.2024 30

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Racing tips / Welcoming the flat season with three bets

If City of Troy is as brilliant as his trainer Aidan O’Brien thinks he is and he runs to his best form, then he will win the first Classic of the...

03.05.2024 10

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Farewell to the jump season with three bets

As the curtain falls on another jumps’ season tomorrow, the ups and downs of ante-post betting are all too apparent once again. Threeunderthrufive,...

26.04.2024 10

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Racing tips / Two bets for Ayr

There is plenty of competitive racing at Ayr over the next two days, quite apart from tomorrow’s Coral Scottish Grand National. With some decent...

19.04.2024 4

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Racing / Four bets for Aintree and beyond

My suggested ante-post bets for tomorrow’s Randox Grand National (4 p.m.) have featured prominently in this column for several weeks now. The good...

12.04.2024 10

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Three big priced ante-post bets for April

Max McNeill and his family, who own THREEUNDERTHRUFIVE, have been hoping for months that their horse would line up for next weekend’s Randox Grand...

05.04.2024 9

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Two tips for tomorrow and my best bet of the season

The interestingly-named GOSHHOWPOSH has two ways of running: very well and very badly. He’s clearly talented and two of his four runs this season...

29.03.2024 20

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Two tips for the Irish Grand National

Irishman Martin Brassil is a brilliant target trainer but even he has to handle the ups and downs that come with participating in the so-called Sport...

22.03.2024 4

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An 18-1 tip for the Cheltenham Gold Cup

The Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup (3.30 p.m.) is the highlight of not just the final day of the Cheltenham Festival but this whole glorious week of...

15.03.2024 20

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Four bets for day three of the Cheltenham

There are two competitive big races to look forward to on day three of the Cheltenham Festival: the Grade 1 Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle (3.30 p.m.)...

14.03.2024 30

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Tips for day two of the Festival

The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase (3.30 p.m.) is the highlight of day two of the Cheltenham Festival and – despite Jonbon’s defection this...

13.03.2024 5

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Five tips for day one of the Cheltenham Festival

Lucinda Russell is a trainer that I love to have on my side for the Cheltenham Festival. It’s not simply that she has got to be one of the nicest...

12.03.2024 10

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Racing tips / Two bets pre-Cheltenham

It may come as a surprise that, even though we are just four days away from a certain major racing Festival in the Cotswolds, today’s betting column...

08.03.2024 20

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Four bets for the weekend’s big handicaps

BENSON did this column a massive favour a year ago when landing the bet365 Morebattle Hurdle after being put up at 16-1 (he went off at a starting...

01.03.2024 4

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Looking ahead to the Cheltenham Festival

Tomorrow’s Bet Eider Handicap Chase at Newcastle is just the sort of marathon contest in which I usually like to have a bet but, with so many of the...

23.02.2024 10

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Two bets for Ascot and Haydock

The run-up to the Cheltenham Festival is a quiet time for many punters with some of the best horses in the land effectively wrapped-up in cotton wool...

16.02.2024 10

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Two soft-ground specialists for Newbury

The heavy rain of the past 48 hours is good news for two horses that I fancy for the ultra-competitive Betfair Hurdle tomorrow (Newbury, 3.15 p.m.)....

09.02.2024 8

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One bet for tomorrow and two ante-post wagers

The two-day Dublin Racing Festival this weekend will – just as Cheltenham Trials Day did a week ago – provide a host of clues to which horses...

02.02.2024 7

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Five bets on Cheltenham Trials Day

If a glittering eight-race card at Cheltenham tomorrow doesn’t whet the appetite for the Festival in less than two months’ time, then nothing...

26.01.2024 10

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Ante-post bets on both sides of the Irish Sea

With tomorrow’s cards at Ascot and Haydock both victims of the cold snap, and Lingfield’s Sunday meeting under threat, it makes sense to look...

19.01.2024 5

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Racing tips / Three bets for this weekend

Most racehorse trainers are creatures of habit and they love to target races which they have won in previous years. Alan King consistently hopes to...

12.01.2024 5

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Racing tips / Two bets for the Cheltenham Festival

At 8 a.m. this morning, my column was done, the ‘i’s were dotted, the ‘t’s crossed. I had even suggested a headline, ‘Three mudlarks for...

05.01.2024 10

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Two wagers for New Year’s Day

I am slightly surprised at the way that bookmakers have priced up Monday’s Paddy Power New Year’s Day Handicap Chase (Cheltenham 2.05 p.m.). Stage...

29.12.2023 5

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Racing tips / Three bets for Christmas

There are only some seven weeks left for connections to get their horses qualified for the 2024 Randox Grand National. This year it will be harder...

22.12.2023 6

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Two wagers for big races tomorrow

I have followed the fortunes of GIN COCO closely for the past two seasons and, even though the gelding will turn eight on New Year’s Day, I am...

15.12.2023 6

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Take an in-form trainer to deliver again

There are a lot of extremely able jump trainers in Britain but only a handful are really adept at successfully preparing a horse for a big target,...

08.12.2023 10

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