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Recently we had the Marble Hill at the Curragh and some smart horses have landed the contest over the years. Caravaggio landed it for Aidan O'Brien in 2016 before going on to land The Coventry at the Royal Meeting. O'Brien senior has landed the race plenty of times but his big hope for today was...

Can someone explain this to me:- Aidan O'Brien's Duke Of Mantua ran in an Irish Handicap off 104 and finished 4th, beaten three and a quarter lengths. The Irish Handicapper put him down 2 lbs for that effort, to 102. That seems logical enough. O'Brien's colt then came over to Newmarket, where...

I thought it might be worth putting up potentially good 2YO horses for this season. They might not amount to anything but based on pedigrees and the trainers they are with you would hope they might turn out to be useful at least. Some of these horses don't even have names yet but are related to...

With the French trials not far away now I decided to make a play in the French 1000 Guineas. The trouble with the French Classics is the difficulty in getting anyone to take an ante-post bet. Paddy Power are one of the few to bother quoting anything and even then they sometimes only quote one...

With prices starting to contract in the Derby market it is perhaps time to consider any potential value in the contenders we have already seen. With High Definition now a best price of 4/1, he is in the area of no value for the average punter. I had a bet on him at 25/1 going into the Beresford...

Horse Racing must have just about the worst media of any sport. Perhaps it is the worst full stop. We are all familiar with the Racing Press being keen to hype up almost any horse that wins well but the situation has reached epic proportions as we go into the weekend. The worst of it is in the...

Bullish is a word we often associate with Jockeys and Trainers. I have sometimes felt it is more often the case that this bullishness transpires as bulls**t by the time the relevant race has been run. I thought I would start a thread to draw attention to cases where connections are confident...

In the hope that we do actually get some Classics on the Flat this season, I thought I would do a round up on the betting changes, snippets of relevant news and offer my own opinions as to the chances of the main contenders in the market at the moment. 2000 Guineas Last year's 2YO talent...

The Solario Stakes has thrown up some good winners in recent years. Kingman won in 2013 while Derby winner Masar won in 2017. Too Darn Hot won it last year and he was hot favourite for the 2000 Guineas at one stage but he failed to fire early in the season before landing a couple of arguably...

With South Sea Pearl mentioned on the Daily Thread I thought I would assess her and Goodwood race she is entered for. South Sea Pearl is entered in the Lillie Langtry, which is a Group 2 but it looks a poor renewal and at 14F it's for slowcoach ladies anyway. The list of previous winners is...

Ten Sovereigns put his field to the sword in the July Cup today as the 3YO horses held sway. All credit to the O'Brien horse for bouncing back into form but you have to wonder about some of the efforts today from the older brigade. The Racing Post awarded a figure of 125 to Ten Sovereigns...

Someone asked yesterday whether Enable has the pace for the 10F Eclipse. Backers at the likely short odds will be taking somewhat of a risk on that front because it just isn't the distance she has been campaigned for most of her career. This will be more of a speed test than she has had for...

With Royal Ascot on the horizon and betting already available for next year's classics I thought it might be worth having a thread for 2YO horses who could make an impact this season or who might be candidates for next year's top races, or just possibly be worth following at their own level...

The Queen Anne Stakes has had a wide open betting market since odds were first compiled for the traditional Group 1 mile contest that opens the Royal Meeting in June. This is probably due to the lack of a really top class miler in the older division. With the Lockinge just run, it seems a good...

There are 12 entered in the Dante at York on Thursday but I feel a few may defect. My instinct was to just go with Too Darn Hot at 7/4 but I don't have access to the firms offering those odds, so had to settle for 6/4. Is 6/4 value then? Looking at the race Aidan O'Brien has Japan entered but...

The owner has said that they will not run disqualified Kentucky Derby first past the post Maximum Security in the Preakness Stakes. The official line is that there is no point running because the Triple Crown is not at stake now and that running again two weeks after the Derby is not a good...

I have been watching momentum grow behind Aidan O'Brien's Japan in the past week or so. He is single figures in some places now and a best priced 12/1. Too Darn Hot is looking like a horse who will not go to the Derby. I could imagine that a Guineas win will see him stay at a mile for most of...

It used to be that some people liked the challenge of the Spring Double in the Lincoln Handicap and Grand National. It was the dream of pulling off a big priced double, which was highly unlikely but not impossible. Looking at the current betting for the two races this year it seems astonishing...

Quite a taking performance at Deauville today from Jean-Claude Rouget's 3YO filly Justfirstlady. The race was a 7 and a half furlong affair for unraced fillies and Freddie Head's Intello filly Co Pilote was narrowly favourite at 15/8. The strange thing early in the race was that Justfirstlady...

It's a very long way off yet but I have been thinking for a couple of months about the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot. I had a very early bet on Sands Of Mali for last year's renewal and then saw him run a stinker on his very next start. A failure to stay in the Breeders Cup Juvenile mile...