Robin Goodfellow’s Racing Tips: Best bets for Wednesday, March 10 Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Wednesday’s meetings at Kempton, Fontwell, Lingfield and Catterick.  Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Wednesday’s meetings ROBIN GOODFELLOW 4.10 Mummy Bear 4.45 Phoenix Star 5.15 Tellmeyourstory 5.45 Dancing King 6.15 Woodview 6.45 Khatm 7.15 Dusty Damsel […]

A total of £6million in prize-money will be up for grabs at this year’s Royal Ascot, up from the £3.61m offered in 2020. The funds for the fixture, which runs from June 15 to 19, represent a 66 per cent increase on last year, when purses were reduced due to the coronavirus pandemic. Last year’s meeting took place behind closed […]

Rarely does a trainer ride another trainer’s horse in trackwork but Kris Lees was happy to have a colleague’s opinion of Mugatoo’s progress going into Saturday’s All-Star Mile. Caulfield trainer Nick Ryan rode Mugatoo in his final lead-up gallop at The Valley on Tuesday morning. Ryan was a premiership-winning rider in Melbourne before taking up training. “Nick rode him a […]

Hall of Fame jockey Hugh Bowman is convinced he has made the right choice with his early call to lock in Profiteer as his ride in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper. Bowman could have deferred his decision until studying the results of this Saturday’s final qualifiers, the Pago Pago Stakes and Magic Night Stakes, but wanted to stay with Profiteer […]

The trainer of Rockhampton rocket Sweet Dolly insists the prospect of a significantly rain-affected Gold Coast track holds no fears for his unbeaten filly in the $500,000 QTIS Jewel 2YO on Saturday. Sweet Dolly has taken all before her in three career starts, blitzing her rivals by six lengths on debut in Townsville before winning the Listed Calaway Gal Stakes […]

Racing superpower Godolphin has secured two riders for Saturday week’s $3.5 million Golden Slipper (1200m). The James Cummings stable currently has four horses qualified and in the top 16 horses in training in the order of entry. Last Saturday’s Todman Stakes winner Anamoe is exempt from the Golden Slipper ballot while Saturday’s Pago Pago Stakes nomination Ingratiating is currently at […]

Nicky Henderson has announced that his dual Champion Hurdle winner Buveur D’Air will not bid to regain his crown next week. Buveur D’Air, successful in the Cheltenham Festival showpiece in 2017 and 2018, will instead head for the Aintree Hurdle over two and a half miles next month. The 10-year-old, owned by JP McManus, returned from a 420-day injury lay-off […]

OPINE can give Jonjo O'Neill another winner by taking the Virgin Bet Free Bets For Winners Handicap Hurdle (3.40) at Southwell. The top trainer has the clear favourite for this year's Randox Grand National after Cloth Cap enhanced his market position at Kelso on Saturday. O'Neill has three runners on Monday and the selection has strong claims of opening his […]

Leading jockey Davy Russell has spoken of Gordon Elliott's heartbreak about the dead horse photo which shocked racing and the wider community. Russell, who rode the trainer's former star chaser Envoi Allen to victory at last year's Cheltenham Festival, said the picture was "so extraordinarily out of character." In response to the 2019 image, Elliott was banned for 12 months […]

MR CHUA (3.05) is fancied to land the nap at Southwell today and win for the second time in a week. Michael Scudamore’s five-week-old made all the running to score at Catterick last week where he hit the line strongly. He gets to race off the same handicap mark as that was a conditional jockeys’ race and Bryan Carver teams […]