Category: UK Racing

Today selectionsPERSUASION – 4.08 Thirsk (NAP)PERSUASION isn’t an easy horse to predict but he likes Thirsk and he might be a big price in the Constant Security Services Handicap over seven furlongs on Friday. The eight-year-old won over the course and distance off a mark of 84 last year and he was a close-up third…

Fine FormNovelette SN – 2.15is expected to complete her hat-trick for Simon and Ed Crisford in the curtain-raising Woburn Partners Nursery Handicap at Sandown.Placed on her first two starts, the daughter of Sioux Nation made it third time lucky at Yarmouth in early July, with the application of a hood going some way to harnessing…

Improving stayer Many Men could be tested at Listed level in Ascot’s BetMGM Noel Murless Stakes after his agonising reversal in the Melrose Stakes at York.Jim Boyle’s three-year-old was sent off the 9-2 favourite on the Knavesmire as he sought to back up a win over two miles at Ascot last month, but had to…

Rosallion is set to face 10 rivals in the first renewal of the Sky Bet City of York Stakes since it achieved Group One status.Richard Hannon’s star miler was bound for the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville last weekend but a bruised foot scuppered that plan and he was redirected to York.He faces Ralph…

Fine FormAlmosh’her YO – 3.35can provide Yorkshire with a winner of its most famous handicap, the Sky Bet Ebor at York.Trained in Leyburn by Karl Burke, the four-year-old runs in the colours of Qatar’s Wathnan Racing operation, a growing force in the game.They want to be winning the biggest races and while this fits into…

Fine FormAn Aidan O’Brien superstar denied France victory in the Juddmonte International 12 months ago, butDaryz YO – 3.35can put the record straight this year on the Knavesmire.It was only City Of Troy that stopped Calandagan triumphing at York and in some ways his stablemate Daryz is on a revenge mission against this year’s Ballydoyle…

Delacroix and Ombudsman – the one-two from last month’s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown – will lock horns again in today’s Juddmonte International at York.The rumour mill went into over-drive on Sunday as bookmakers reported market support for Delacroix’s stable companion Whirl, who was also entered in the Ebor Festival’s day-two feature, but it was the three-year-old…

Fine FormNightime Dancer NB – 1.50looks certain to go close in the Highclere Thoroughbred Racing Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury.It is reasonable to say we have perhaps not seen his absolute limit just yet, having still only had five career starts.He has been highly tried, too, since taking a Southwell novice on his three-year-old bow…

Today selectionsKINGS MERCHANT – 2.45 Ripon (NAP)KINGS MERCHANT was beaten a neck in a six runner race over C&D on his only previous visit and has live claims of going one better in this consolation race. He moved stables after struggling at the start of this season and didn’t show a great deal on his…

Witness Stand will bid for back-to-back Group Two wins in the Visit Malta Hungerford Stakes at Newbury today.A surprise 25-1 winner of the Lennox Stakes at Goodwood late last month, the four-year-old will get the opportunity to prove that success was no fluke for the training partnership of Dr Richard Newland and Jamie Insole ahead…