Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. AIDAN O’Brien bids to continue his unbeaten run in British Classics this season when he saddles the 9-4 favourite Pink Dogwood in the Investec Oaks on Friday. The 21-times Irish Champion trainer has already bagged the QIPCO 2000 Guineas with Magna Grecia…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. AIDAN O’Brien and the Coolmore team continued their dominance in feature races in a terrific week that saw them land the QIPCO 2000 Guineas, 1000 Guineas and Chester Vase. Magna Grecia, ridden by O’Brien’s son Donnacha O’Brien, secured the trainer’s 10th win…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. HORSEPLAY booked her place in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on June 2 with a tenacious victory in the Listed Tweenhills Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket on Sunday. The victory in the 10 furlong contest was the second in three starts for the…
By Simon Jackson at Epsom Downs. Minding has been slashed to 5-1 favourite (from 12-1) for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with Paddy Power after a tenacious victory in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday. The beautifully-bred daughter of Galileo and Lillie Langtry was forced to overcome significant trouble in running down the…
By Simon Jackson. Frankie Dettori anticipates a big run from the lightly-raced Architecture in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on June 3 after the filly worked well at Epsom last week. The Hugo Palmer-trained daughter of Zoffany exercised with stablemate Harry Champion over a mile on soft ground at Epsom Downs where she came through…
By Simon Jackson at Epsom. Legatissimo is taken to provide Ryan Moore with his third Classic victory of the season by landing the £450,000 Investec Oaks at Epsom this afternoon. Moore has already won the first two of the five Classic races of 2015 when landing the Qipco 2000 Guineas on Gleneagles and the Qipco 1000…
By Simon Jackson. Crystal Zvezda is challenging Legatissimo’s position at the top of the market for the Investec Oaks as 11 runners were confirmed for the Group 1 Classic at Epsom on Friday. Legatissimo has been a clear favourite for the Oaks since winning the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 3 but is…
By Simon Jackson. Ralph Beckett has already won the Oaks twice with outsiders and bids do it again when he saddles 40-1 shot Bellajeu in the fillies’ long-distance Classic on Friday. Becket first won the Oaks in 2008 with 33-1 shot Look Here. He repeated the feat in 2013 when he saddled the first two…
By Simon Jackson. Legatissimo continues to head the betting as 25 fillies go forward for the £450,000 Investec Oaks on Ladies’ Day at Epsom Downs on Friday June 5. The David Wachman-trained filly is best priced at 4-1 (William Hill) but as short as 3-1 elsewhere after her victory in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas at…
By Simon Jackson. Mick Channon believes that Malabar is a potential Oaks filly after she finished fourth to Legatissimo in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday. The consistent filly has yet to finish out of the money in seven starts that includes a Group 3 win at Goodwood in her two-year-old season, that…
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