Daily blog – May 15

DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING FRIDAY MAY 15 2.55 YORK HAVE SECRET, despite having his 37th start, produced a career high on the figures at Pontefract last time out and with conditions to suit, Richard & Peter Fahey’s gelding looks to have strong claims of...

Daily blog – May 14

DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING THURSDAY MAY 14 3.08 PERTH BOLD LIGHT has been largely treading water for the thick end of a year but in mitigation, he has been up against some useful sorts in that period and today provides the kind of respite which hopefully can...

Daily blog – May 13

DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING WEDNESDAY MAY 13 2.20 YORK Unsurprisingly, the market has centred around horses housed from the Haggas and Beckett stables in this 1m4f handicap but the safest option at the prices is to side with course specialist, STRESSFREE, who...

Weekly blog – May 5 – May 10

May 6 – Chester – Benvenuto Cellini – 80 A big week for Derby and Oaks trials began with arguably the pick of the crop – certainly over 1m4f – and Aidan O’Brien’s colt put the kind of marker down that rightly has him favourite...

Daily blog – May 12

DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING TUESDAY MAY 12 4.10 HEREFORD CAMPAIGN TRAIL hasn’t hit the heights expected by connections over hurdles, but there was more encouragement to be taken from his latest exploits at Southwell, enough certainly to warrant a small...

Daily blog – May 11

DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING MONDAY MAY 11 4.53 ROSCOMMON FROGS HOLLOW CREEK ran with plenty of encouragement on his debut at The Curragh last month and with the valuable commodity of an all-important run under his belt, Martin Hassett’s colt can use that...