Selections coming from Yarmouth, found below. Monday’s selection in Major Muscari was supported at big prices close to the off and showed decent speed from the gate, showing up prominently up until about 2f out. He weakened quite quickly and must just have been a precocious juvenile and nothing more. Disappointing nonetheless. Some fair racing [...]

A seriously unlucky run by Mijhaar when I last did a blog, the Roger Varian trained colt was still travelling with promise when almost brought down when long time leader Fair Trade weakened into his path. Neil Callan did exceptionally well to keep the partnership intact, and rightfully eased the horse right down after that [...]

Just the one selection for Monday, coming from Beverley. Sunday saw the first bet of July and fortunately, it was a winning one with Taajub just hanging on. He was a bit naughty in the preliminaries and jumped out to his left when coming out of the stalls and although off the bridle a fair [...]

Just the one selection for today, coming from Ascot. It’s been a long while since the last blog post and that’s come for a number of reasons. Firstly, I was on holiday in Crete and managed to catch a pretty bad cold for my return back to the UK, so that put me back a [...]

The King George, the mid-season highlight of the British flat season, has arrived amidst the unseasonal rains and many racing enthusiasts will just glad for the meeting to go ahead. Heavy ground and abandonment have become the norm for the past few weeks, and while Sandown survived the threat of the weather it’s show piece [...]

Liberty Ship is a horse I put up last week and I am inclined to give him another chance tomorrow. He was a shade disappointing last time, though that was a much stronger contest. He has good course and distance form and incidentally, won the corresponding race last year. Though not the most straight forward [...]

Last Shadow has shaped like a horse who needs a good test of stamina with his two victories to date being on soft ground at Nottingham, the later being off a mark of 77. He was then dropped back down to a mile and unsurprisingly found things happen much too fast. His next run saw [...]

Anyone who’s been in this game for a while knows about how attached you can get to your ‘favourite’ horses. George Washington, Zarkava, Shawanda, Rio De La Plata, and even that enigmatic gelding Our Vic have all been on my personal radar since I really started getting into racing. Dubawi however is something a little [...]

Bad weather has been the story of the season so far, as an overnight torrential downpour on the Newmarket July Course turned the ground heavy, and with that went the chances of antepost favourite Bated Breath’s participation in the race – and he was pulled out first thing this morning. Bated Breath was followed by [...]

I had initially planned to do a few previous this morning on the bumper card of racing we have before us (seriously? Who’s idea was it to have so much on one day?), but sadly once again the weather has taken its toll completely ruining everything and giving us Soft/Heavy ground at Newmarket – however [...]