Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. JACK HOBBS is in ‘great order’ ahead of his belated return against a star-studded field in the £1.3 million QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, John Gosden has revealed. Jack Hobbs – winner of the 2015 Irish Derby and runner-up to stable…
By Simon Jackson. A total of 30,697 people attended the fifth Qipco British Champions Day where 10-1 shot Fascinating Rock was the surprise winner of the featured £1.3million Champion Stakes. The valuable six-race card at Ascot on Saturday offered total prize-money of £4.1million and was contested in a celebratory atmosphere where the last race went…
By Simon Jackson. Territories has pleased trainer Andre Fabre ahead of the potential rematch with his Qipco 2000 Guineas conqueror Gleneagles in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot. Territories was a two and a quarter lengths second at Newmarket to Gleneagles, who has since won the Irish equivalent and St James’s Palace Stakes, but…
By Simon Jackson. French trainer Francois Doumen is confident Sea Calisi can reverse the Darley Yorkshire Oaks placings with favourite Covert Love in the QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Covert Love and Sea Calisi finished second and third to Pleascach in the Yorkshire Oaks, with only two necks separating…
By Simon Jackson. Trainer James Fanshawe is targeting back to back wins at Ascot with The Tin Man who is one of the 20 runners declared today for the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. The Tin Man’s connections earlier this week opted to pay a £40,000 supplementary entry fee to add…
By Simon Jackson. Covert Love heads the market at 9-2 as 16 runners go forward for the QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes on Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday. The Darley Irish Oaks winner looks set to make a swift return to action after her tenacious victory in the Group 1 Prix de…
By Simon Jackson. John Gosden bids to continue his tremendous season by landing the £1.3 million Qipco Champion Stakes with Jack Hobbs who has a public gallop before racing at Newmarket today. Jack Hobbs, the winner of this year’s Irish Derby, is best priced at 7-4 (Paddy Power) but as short as 5-4 for the…
By Simon Jackson. French trainer Freddy Head wants some rain for favourite Solow ahead of the £1million Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot on October 17. The five-year-old bids to complete a hat-trick of Group 1 wins in the UK this year after victories in the Queen Anne Stakes at…
By Simon Jackson. Jamie Spencer hopes for faster ground for recent Newbury winner The Corsican in the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes on Champions Day at Ascot on October 17. The four-year-old travelled well for Spencer throughout the Group 3 Dubai Duty Free Legacy Cup on good-to-soft ground at Newbury on Saturday and stuck to…
By Simon Jackson. Legendary jockey Lester Piggott is to present the trophy to this year’s champion flat jockey on QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot on October 17. This year’s flat jockeys’ championship started at Newmarket on May 2 and concludes on Champions Day next month and for the first time this year the championship…
