Category: Horse Racing Betting

A varied and competitive bumper card of eight races kicks off at Wolverhampton from 5.10pm on Thursday night, along with a more streamlined six race schedule up in Newcastle, with their Tapeta action starting at 5.30pm… Wolverhampton The 5.10pm at Wolverhampton is as modest as a gets quality wise, a Class 7 event with little inspiring form to work with, which leads one to…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! The 2018 Breeders’ Cup will be staged this year at Churchill Downs for the ninth time – and with plenty of mega-pots up for grabs then the best horses from around the globe will be heading to the Kentucky track in hope of making it into the Breeders’ Cup record…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! It’s jump action all the way this Saturday as the hedge-hoppers take over from the flat horses with the new National Hunt season starting to hit top gear now. Wetherby and Ascot are where the ITV cameras are at as we’ve seven races spread across the two venues…

Cheltenham Racecourse opens its doors for the first time for the 2018-2019 National Hunt season on Friday, with a quality seven race card beginning at 2.00pm. Below you’ll find some likely winners, dangers and dark horses for the afternoon ahead… 2.00 – Ballymore Novices' Hurdle Cl2 (4yo+) 2m5f RUK Irish raiders take up the bulk of the market here with Gordon Elliott’s Make My…

Doncaster 1.45 – Heartwarming An open looking race to start at Donny, and I’ll be backing Heartwarming each way. She looked very promising earlier in the season and was quite well fancied for a better race than this last time. She never came off the bridle that day as she never got a clear run, but still appeared to show plenty of ability. She’s…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! Loads more going on this Saturday as the ITV cameras are at Doncaster, Newbury and Cheltenham. At Doncaster the Group One , newly-named Vertem Futurity Trophy (the old Racing Post Trophy) takes centre stage as trainer Aidan O'Brien goes in search of win number eight in the race of the season, while jockey Andrea…

Yorkshire trainer Marjorie Fife has her first runner at Dundalk this evening, with Red Charmer running in the 5.30pm Apprentice Jockey Claiming race and she may well make her first a winner, as the 8yo gelding arrives in winning form and is looking very dangerous at the weights in a very ordinary ten furlong contest. With lots of A/W action to get through, so…

Ascot 1.25 – Thomas Hobson It might be folly to oppose Stradivarius, but almost all his best form has been on good or faster and he was a bit laboured on soft in this race last year before his guts and class got him back into it. As such, I’ll take a sporting stab at Thomas Hobson. The Doncaster Cup may not have been…

The jumps season in theory should be something we dread, but It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. The season corresponds with cold weather, rainy days and going/coming from work in the gloomy darkness. Nothing about these seasonal conditions can temper the racing fans enthusiasm though. I would consider myself a flat and jumps racing fan, but for pure emotional attachment,…

Newmarket 1.50 – Kadar I really took to Kadar when he broke his maiden at Haydock on his debut, in part because I was pretty sure that the runner-up Waldstern was well above average. When he hit top gear, Kadar just glided by and looks to have a fair amount of the ability to justify a fairly lofty price tag. This looks quite a…

Ascot 1.50 – Mr Lupton   Mr Lupton is carrying a penalty here, hence his pretty decent price, but he might be able to defy it given the likelihood of a breakneck pace, courtesy of Amomentofmadness. Gerald Mosse gave him a beautiful ride at Newbury and should be able to execute similar tactics here.    Ascot 2.25 – Laraaib   Laraaib is a high-risk…

Newmarket 1.50 – Waldstern I loved Waldstern when he won his maiden, and he didn’t do too much wrong against Kadar next time. He is bred to stay well and looks to have a great attitude. This won’t be easy, but I trust this brother to Waldgeist to give a pretty good account. Newmarket 2.25 – Western Australia A slightly nutty selection, given my regard…

Too Darn Hot and Sangarius will have to do something only the legendary Frankel has achieved during the past dozen years if either is to justify their lofty rank in our Dewhurst betting tips. Trained by John Gosden and Sir Michael Stoute respectively, the pair are already attempting to break an Irish stranglehold over the Newmarket Group 1 that has seen just two English-trained…

The UK & Irish flat racing calendar certainly has some world class festivals and events through the spring and summer months. But when it comes to one single card of absolutely world class flat racing, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe day at the newly refurbished ParisLongchamp venue is out on its own. A bonanza of Group 1 action begins at 1.10pm on Sunday…

If you are looking for a very likely winner to open the Kempton card at 5.40pm, John Gosden’s Buffalo River has been knocking firmly at the door in three career starts to date. But at a shade of odds-on, the son of Noble Mission may be worth taking a view against… He ran to respectable Racing Post ratings (RPRs) of 87 on his first…