The high-class filly will start a hot favourite but carry 3lb less than the colts in Saturday’s race at AscotEnable is one of those horses who’s so good, you try to tell your non-racing friends about her. But if your friends can read a racecard, the conversation may take a tricky turn.“Hang on. She’s carrying less weight than most of the other runners.”“Uh, yeah.”“But you said she was good. Is she not as good as these other ones?” Related: Andrea Atzeni hoping to lower Enable’s colours in King George Bath 2.00 Uncertain Smile 2.30 Fanzone 3.00 Devils Roc 3.30 Street Jester 4.00 Storm Melody 4.30 Canal Rocks 5.00 Bader Catterick 2.10 Frost At Midnight 2.40 Gold Venture 3.10 Ambyfaeirvine (nap) 3.40 Ollivander 4.10 Timetodock 4.40...
The crack sprinter has won the last two editions of the King George Stakes despite showing signs of nerves at other coursesSometimes in horse racing a trainer just has to stick with what works, even if logic suggests it should not. That is the situation in which Charlie Hills finds himself as he prepares to send Battaash to Glorious Goodwood next week, where the crack sprinter will try to become the first horse to win the King George Stakes three times.For all his speed, Battaash has so far been unable to win at either Ascot or York but he is unbeaten in two visits to Goodwood. Asked what makes the Sussex track ideal for the horse, Hills said yesterday: “I...
John Gosden says odds of 4-6 on his star shows that bookmakers ‘don’t want anyone backing’ her at the King GeorgeJohn Gosden has said that Enable faces “a tall order” in trying to win Saturday’s King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, despite being a hot favourite in the betting. The trainer accused bookmakers of trying to protect themselves by offering unrealistically short odds about his mare, who is unbeaten since April 2017. Related: Andrea Atzeni hoping to lower Enable’s colours in King George Ayr 1.30 Dick Datchery 2.00 Tadaany 2.30 Dream House 3.05 Cameo Star 3.35 Duhallow Noelie (nb) 4.10 Betty Grable 4.45 Asian Angel 5.15 Burn Some Dust Continue reading...
It is hard to see past the Richard Fahey runner after the colt’s excellent run in the Norfolk Stakes at Royal AscotIn most years the Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury is a tremendously competitive contest among two-year-olds of broadly similar ability, posing a real trap for punters. But every so often it falls to a horse who is plainly a class above most of the field, as when Tiggy Wiggy and Monsieur Chevalier won, and Ventura Rebel (3.40) may add his name to that short list.From the Richard Fahey stable that has won this three times in six years, he beat a Wesley Ward-trained odds-on shot at Ascot in May. He was then beaten a neck in the Norfolk Stakes,...
The sport is in a ‘dangerous moment’ according to a former betting executive and the 2005 Gambling Act is a chief factorThe internal combustion engine, powered flight, electricity, universal suffrage and two world wars are just a few of the transformative inventions, discoveries and events which have occurred since horse racing and bookmaking began their very successful association in the 1790s.So it is quite something to open this morning’s Racing Post and read that Richard Flint, until very recently the chief executive of Sky Bet, feels that racing and betting face an “existential threat” as a result of increasingly negative attitudes towards gambling, both in Parliament and in the British public in general. Flint spent 18 years at Sky Bet...