Sunday's Meetings Naas Flat 8 Races 1:22-5:27p.m. Goodwood Flat 7 Races 1:50-5:20p.m. Beverley Flat 6 Races 2:05-5:00p.m. Yarmouth Flat 6 Races 2:15-5:10p.m. Racecards At The Races Sporting Life Racing Post Good Luck
15:25 Deauville - Beauvatier Has finished 3rd in Group-1 races last two outings. Now dropped back to a Group-3 event, which puts the Lope De Vega colt in with a decent chance of winning this 6f event on good-to-soft ground. 5/2 seems to be about the top price with UK/Irish bookies, but the eventual SP could well be better than this?
Do not shoot the messenger time... I was at York on Thursday and I got talking to a couple who had bought a pass for the whole Ebor meeting as they are in a syndicate that had a horse slated to run on Friday. Unfortunately for them they had been informed that the horse was a non runner and had been re-routed to Yarmouth. So after the Ebor on Saturday they were driving home then going to Yarmouth on Sunday morning. The gent said that the trainer (James Fanshawe) really fancied their horse so he had had a substantial each way bet at 20/1 on one of the exchanges. He can still get those odds this morning if he shopped around the bookies. Anyway, the horse is Philanthropist in the Yarmouth 2:50. It was eighth on debut over course and distance and there are clearly others in the race with better form chances.
Most of the bookies will not pay out PMU returns on races where there is an industry SP. So the only way that you are going to beat the 5/2 about Beauvatier is if it drifts with all the other bookies, most of whom are only going 9/4 or 85/40. My guess is that it will be shorter on the PMU as the locals will not back the British trained favourite for the race (James’s Delight), a course and distance Listed winner last time out. At a price, Coeur De Pierre must be in with a squeak in that race having chased home Bradsell in a hot Listed race at the track last time. You are right that Beauvatier’s last run when third in the Maurice de Gheest does look like the single best piece of form on offer, however.
They must be desperate for schedule filler at ITV to be covering the very ordinary racing at Goodwood and Beverley today. The prize money is above the usual level that one might expect to see for a mediocre midweek Beverley fixture but the reality is that the six races still consist of 0-70 handicaps, 0-80 handicaps and a maiden race; proper Bank Holiday weekend dross. The last day of the Deauville Festival offers little in the way of betting prospects. The nine race card is a combination of handicaps on the kitty litter and Group races on the turf. James Doyle is over to ride Wathnan Racing’s Make Me King in the Prix Quincey (1:33) but I think there is a good chance the prize money will be staying in France, possibly with Fast Raaj, whose fourth in the Prix Messidor last time does not look too shoddy after fifth home Ice Max won at Goodwood yesterday. In the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville (2:50), I would not want to be on Arrest at odds on as he has not won for a year. If he wins by a street then will he become more prominent in the Arc betting? I already mentioned the Prix de Meautry (3:25) in an earlier post and my inclination, if I were looking for a bet in the race, would be to chance the local Coeur De Pierre against the British raiding party because of his form last time out with Nunthorpe winner Bradsell, a repeat of which would be good enough to win a Group 3. Whilst much of the Deauville Festival is not very well attended (like much racing in France), I imagine that the crowd will be even sparser today with no Group 1 finale.
