Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. ARENA Racing Company (ARC) – the owners of four racecourses in the south east – has stepped in to support a fundraising event in London for horse welfare. ARC has 16 racecourses in the UK that includes Lingfield Park, Fontwell Park, Brighton and…
By Simon Jackson. Richard Hannon has said that Humphrey Bogart ‘deserves his chance’ to contest the Investec Derby after a tenacious victory in the Listed Betfred Derby Trial Stakes at Lingfield. The son of Tagula was restrained at the rear of the field by jockey Sean Levey in the opening stages and still trailed the…
By Simon Jackson. Lingfield Park stages a six-race card on Saturday which features the £100,000 Coral Winter Derby where dual Group 2 winner Tullius makes a rare appearance on the all-weather. The eight-year-old, a winner of 10 of his 32 starts and over £434,000 in prizemoney, won two of his four races at Lingfield in…
By Simon Jackson. The impressive manner of Baydar’s victory on a wet and windy day at Lingfield Park on Tuesday left connections dreaming of top targets next season. The Hugo Palmer-trained two-year-old was far too good for his rivals as he made all under Martin Harley to score by three and three quarter lengths in…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. La Estrella posted a joint-record 26th victory on an all-weather surface when producing a typically tenacious display to win the opening race at Lingfield on Wednesday. The one and three quarter length success in the two mile Class 6 contest leaves the winner tied with the now retired Stand…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. Favourites won five of the six races at Lingfield on Friday that included the Class 2 feature contest that went to Don’t Be who extended her winning sequence to four races. Don’t Be, trained by Sir Mark Prescott at Newmarket, was unbeaten in her last three starts after posting…
By Simon Jackson. Lingfield Park is gearing-up for the second All-Weather Championships series as they prepare to celebrate a quarter of a century of racing on a synthetic surface this month. Lingfield created history on October 30, 1989 when they staged the first all-weather meeting in the UK and are set to recognise the milestone…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield. Richard Kingscote praised the character of Dreams Of Reality after she showed plenty of fight to win impressively, the victory all the more notable as she is partially blind in one eye. Headgear that completely covers the affected eye is utilised and clearly works well, on the three-year-old who travelled…
By Simon Jackson. Snow Sky is as short as 14-1 for the Investec Derby after winning the Listed betfred.com Derby Trial at Lingfield, but has yet to be confirmed as a definite runner for Epsom on June 7. The son of Nayef impressed with the manner of his victory on Saturday under replacement rider Jim…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. Adam Kirby was crowned champion jockey with 90 wins for the all-weather championship series that ran from October to April, at Lingfield Park’s first turf meeting of the year on Friday. The award capped a great 12 months for the 25-year-old rider who bagged a brace of Group 1s…
