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Talking Horses: best bets for Tuesday at Leicester and Brighton

Stars Over The Sea (Leicester 3.50) will be difficult to pass if jockey Joe Fanning can get his mount settled in frontThe £15,000 prize for the Squirrel Handicap at Leicester this afternoon has attracted an interesting field of eight runners and even Passover, the 20-1 outsider, has form in the book which would give him a chance. Related: Horse racing tips: Tuesday 4 October Continue reading...

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Talking Horses: best bets for Monday at Windsor, Pontefract and Southwell

Fair Power is one to watch at Windsor (4.20), while Wild Hacked can make an impression in the best race at the meeting (3.50)Jim Crowley’s extraordinary run of form during September seems to have put the jockeys’ title race to bed and he started October in similar style with a winner at Redcar on Saturday afternoon and two more under the lights at Wolverhampton a few hours later. Related: Horse racing tips: Monday 3 October Continue reading...

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Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe day: Talking Horses live

All the highlights from the Chantilly meeting featuring Europe’s premier horse race plus best bets and latest newsLimato stormed clear in the hands of Harry Bentley to claim the Prix de la Foret. Runner-up in the seven-furlong Group One 12 months ago, Henry Candy’s stable star has run over a variety of distances this season. Related: Makahiki can end Japan’s long wait for Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Related: Horse racing tips: Sunday 2 October Continue reading...

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Talking Horses: Saturday's best bets for Newmarket, Ascot and Redcar

The Gallic runner Ervedya, a three times Group One winner last year, looks especially dangerous in Newmarket’s Sun Chariot StakesIt seems an odd coincidence that, on this weekend when so much of the best racing is in France, Britain stages a Group One which is dominated by French raiders. What are they doing over here when there’s so much good racing just down the road?Newmarket’s Sun Chariot Stakes must fit very nicely into the programme for French female milers because the race has been won five times in the past seven years by such a horse. Nor is this a one-man phenomenon. Three different French trainers have been successful in that time. Continue reading...

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Talking Horses: Friday tips for Ascot and Newcastle

Platitude (3.45), favourite for the Noel Murless Stakes at Ascot, was a very convincing winner of his last race and his profile is a progressive oneThe feature event at Ascot this afternoon offers up a classic racing puzzle: proven form versus exciting potential. Platitude, the five-length winner of the March Stakes at Goodwood in August, is the favourite for the Listed Noel Murless Stakes at 11-8, and the six opponents lined up against him include Dermot Weld’s three-year-old Aydoun, whose sole race to date was a maiden at Listowel 15 days ago, which he won by nearly five lengths. Related: Horse racing tips: Friday 30 September Continue reading...

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