Author: David Dunning

The sprinters take centre stage at the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival at York on Friday with the running of the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes. This year’s renewal has a distinctively international flavour, with leading contenders from France and the…

The Darley Yorkshire Oaks, worth £400,000 in guaranteed prize money, is the second of three Group 1 races run at the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival. Dual Classic winner Snowfall has looked nigh on unbeatable since stepped up to middle-distances…

Sponsored by Juddmonte Farms since 1989, the Juddmonte International Stakes is the most valuable Pattern race of the season at York, with prize money totalling £1 million. In the absence of St. Mark’s Basilica, Aidan O’Brien has re-routed Love from…

The Racing League makes the first of two scheduled stops at Lingfield on Thursday evening. As ever, the action comes thick and fast, with all six races screened live on Sky Sports, so we’ve come up with half a dozen…

It’s the fillies’ and mares’ turn to take centre stage on Thursday, in the third and final Group 1 race of the week, the Nassau Stakes. The supporting card is competitive enough, too, but that should mean there’s some value…

Described by Aidan O’Brien as ‘the ultimate test of a miler’, the Group 1 Qatar Sussex Stakes is the highlight of a five-race televised card on Wednesday. We’ve pored over the form book and identified a handful of selections that…

The Goodwood Festival, affectionately known as ‘Glorious Goodwood’, is just around the corner, so it’s high time to run a rule over the feature race of the week, the Sussex Stakes. Palace Pier, the highest-rated horse in Europe, according to…

Promoted to Group 1 status in 2017, the Goodwood Cup has been solely the preserve of Stradivarius ever since. With his Gold Cup conqueror Subjectivist sidelined through injury, Stradivarius is odds-on to extend his winning sequence to five, but it’s…

In a break from the norm, ITV Racing cameras are at Musselburgh for all seven races on the ‘twilight’ card on Sunday, plus the Pomfret Stakes from Pontefract. The so-called ‘Sky Bet Sunday Series’ looks an exciting initiative and we…

Two Listed contests, one for 2-year-olds and one for 3-year-olds, at different ends of the country take centre stage on Friday and our horse racing tips pick out two selections for a double. We’ve pored over the form book and…