QIPCO Champions Day at Ascot will once again feature French raider Cirrus Des Aigles, who has been installed as favourite to emulate his 2011 victory in the Champions Stakes. He will face another competitive field on a day featuring many of the horses which have graced the turf throughout the 2013 flat campaign. Cirrus Des Aigles was […]
Newmarket stages the second leg of the Autumn Double on Saturday 12th October when the 2013 edition of the Cesarewitch Handicap takes centre stage in a high quality one day card, which also features six group races. As ever, a competitive field will line-up for the class two graded 2m 2f handicap. Tiger Cliff and Domination are disputing favouritism for […]
Europe’s richest horse race, the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe, takes centre stage on the racing calendar this weekend with an international line-up set to participate in the event. Cards for both Saturday and Sunday feature several Group 1 races at the Paris Longchamp racecourse with forecasted heavy rain later in the week raising the possibility of testing underfoot conditions. A […]
At this time of the flat season, attention often switches to predicting the outcome of the autumn double handicaps, the Cambridgeshire and the Cesarewitch. Both races usually attract large fields and such is the entry for Saturday’s first leg that the ‘Silver Cambridgeshire’ is available on Friday for those horses failing to secure a starting place in the […]
Several big handicaps are usually contested in early autumn during the flat campaign and such has been the popularity of the Ayr Gold Cup that the Silver Cup has been introduced for those horses unable to gain an entry. The Gold Cup itself appears to have attracted a very smart field… Top weight and ante-post favourite Jack […]
For horse racing fans, the onset of autumn coincides with the staging of the St Leger meeting at Doncaster with the final classic of the season deemed as a race for three year olds considered to best suited by a test of stamina. This year’s renewal features a typical encounter between those already experienced in […]
South African star Soft Falling Rain saw his unbeaten record go up in smoke at Newbury on his first outing in Britain when only second to the impressive Gregorian in the Group 2 Betfred Hungerford Stakes, but trainer Mike de Kock is not despondent and expects much better next time out. The four-year-old arrived at Newbury unbeaten […]
Twelve months previously, the appearance of Frankel in the Juddmonte International Stakes attracted a huge crowd to the Knavesmire on the first day of the York Ebor meeting. Frankel duly obliged that day with a comfortable win in his first attempt at the 1m 2f distance, and while the intended runners in this year’s renewal may not possess […]
Glorious Goodwood begins on July 30th and for many horse racing pundits there are quite a few races providing the opportunity for an open betting market, including the Stewards Cup. However, the highlight of the week must be the renewal of the rivalry between DAWN APPROACH and TORONADO in the Sussex Stakes after their closely fought duel in the St James´s Palace Stakes […]