Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. MARCO BOTTI is targeting his sixth win in the past 10 runnings of the Listed Betway Winter Derby Trial at Lingfield Park on Saturday where he saddles all-weather debutant Red Label. Botti has won Betway Winter Derby Trial five times since 2009,…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. LINGFIELD Park is to install on-course betting facilities operated by bookmaker William Hill before the end of the month. The dual-purpose racecourse in Surrey, which has a grass and an all-weather track, host their next meeting on August 21 and the new betting…
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…
