With no less than six UK meetings today, it will pay to be selective with your bets and we've found four horses to go to war with. A couple of the runners are running in competitive handicaps at Newmarket but look to have solid chances, while we've found a well-handicapped runner up at Thirsk. To c...

There's some high quality flat action today but the nap is running over the sticks at Bangor. On the face of it GUD DAY looks to have plenty to do against some on-form rivals in the Alfa Aggregates Handicap Hurdle (due off 4.15pm), but there are reasons for thinking he can outperform them here. The...

Attention turns to Newbury on Saturday when thirteen horses go to post for an intriguing renewal of the Lockinge Stakes. Last year Frankel delivered a sensational performance in the race and added his name to a lengthy list of famous winners of the Group One showpiece.  With him retired there...

The nine-runner Yorkshire Cup (2.45pm) over 1m6f is the big race on the third and final day of the York Dante meeting. It's a race Saeed Bin Suroor has won six times and he fields the likely favourite in Cavalryman, who holds a course and distance win to his name, that coming in this month last yea...

The Coronation Stakes is the big race on the Friday of the 2013 Royal Ascot meeting – with Irish stables sure to be strongly represented. Friday is usually one of the quieter days in terms of top-quality Royal Ascot racing, but the Coronation Stakes for three-year-old fillies generally provides a ...

The Qipco-sponsored Yorkshire Cup over 1m6f is the feature race at York on Friday and it has attracted a quality field of nine. They are headed by Godolphin's Cavalryman, who won the Dubai World Cup on his latest start and has put in as 2/1 favourite by Stan James. His trainer Saeed Bin Suroor, who...

Eight horses have been declared for York's feature race on Thursday, the Dante Stakes (2.45pm), with several of the runners putting their Derby credentials on the line. Aidan O'Brien has been mopping up Derby trials like they were going out of fashion this spring and his Indian Chief is favour...

Sir Henry Cecil's First Mohican got off the mark for the season at York on Wednesday and connections are looking forward to switching him to jumping next winter. The five-year-old has been restricted to five career runs on the flat due to injury and met with his only defeat when favourite for last...

With Telescope being a shock absentee from York's Dante Stakes, there are three horses vying for favouritism. Telescope, who was a short-priced favourite for this Group 2 contest, misses the race due to a minor infection but his owners, the Highclere Racing Syndicate, will still be represented by G...