Author: David Dunning

The King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes is one of the most prestigious and valuable races of its kind in the British Flat racing calendar. The roll of honour already includes Nijinsky, Mill Reef and Dancing Brave, to name…

ITV Racing is scheduled to show six competitive races from Newmarket and York on Friday, all bar one of which feature double-figure fields. As ever, in search of value, we’ve compiled an each-way Yankee, which we hope will pay dividends.…

Three of the five races to be shown on ITV Racing on Thursday feature single-figure fields, which rather limits each-way possibilities. Not to worry, though, we’ve tried to look beyond the obvious and come up with a couple of selections…

The Coral-Eclipse offers the first ‘kick at the can’ for three-year-olds of the ‘Classic’ generation against older rivals at the highest level. Both age groups are well represented in what promises to be a fascinating and informative contest.   Mishriff…

The second, and more valuable, of the two Group 1 sprints run at Royal Ascot, the Diamond Jubilee Stakes is often contested by horses that ran in the King’s Stand Stakes earlier in the week. In 2021, only two of…

In terms of prestige, the Coronation Stakes is second only to the 1,000 Guineas for three-year-old fillies over a mile. In 2021, the line-up potentially includes the first half a dozen home in the Newmarket Classic, the first two home…

The Commonwealth Cup is a recent, but welcome, addition to the Royal Ascot programme. Once again, the crème de la crème of 3-year-old sprinting talent is set to do battle over the testing 6 furlongs at Ascot, in what promises…

For many racing fans, the Gold Cup is the highlight of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. In 2021, Stradivarius seeks to to emulate Yeats by winning the historic race for the fourth year running but, admirable though he may be,…

The Prince of Wales’s Stakes is the principal middle-distance race of the week for older horses and the undisputed highlight of day two. As is often the case, Aidan O’Brien is well represented but so, too, are a bevy of…

The third and final Group 1 race on the opening day of Royal Ascot, the St. James’s Palace Stakes is often contested by horses that ran with distinction in the English, Irish and French 2,000 Guineas. This year appears no…