Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. WITHHOLD is fancied to follow up on a wide-margin victory at Newmarket and win the QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup on Champions Day at Ascot. The Roger Charlton-trained gelding has terrific form in long-distance races, the most recent a six-length victory…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. RICHARD Hannon’s QIPCO 2000 Guineas runner-up King Of Change may be set for a rematch with winner Magna Grecia after defying a lengthy absence to win at Sandown. King Of Change had not raced since posting a career best at Newmarket 137…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. STRADIVARIUS will this season contest the same five races as last year when he won the four events that comprise the Weatherbys Hamilton Stayers’ Million and QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup. The John Gosden-trained five-year-old this term has repeated his victories…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. ORDER Of St George deserves his place at the top of the market in the Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday, jockey Ryan Moore said today (Friday). The five-year-old has won three of his six…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. CLIVE COX has said he has no concerns about QIPCO British Champions Sprint favourite Harry Angel returning to Ascot where he has been beaten three times in as many attempts. The Ascot defeats contrast Harry Angel’s otherwise superb record that has seen him…
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…
