totesport Breeders’ Cup bonanza
The eyes of the racing world will be focused on Monmouth Park, New Jersey on Friday and Saturday, when the ‘creme de la creme’ of international thoroughbred horseracing gather for the 24th Breeders’ Cup Championship - and punters can take advantage of totesport’s unique betting products on each and every race.
The climax is on Saturday when totesport offer ante-post odds on all eight star-studded contests and there will be plenty of interest late into the evening in the UK as some of our leading performers bid for glory and attempt to maintain the good record of British and European challengers in the US in recent years.
Many will be hoping to see Brian Meehan’s Red Rocks repeat his tremendous success in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, one of two memorable wins on the card for jockey Frankie Dettori that night. Red Rocks doesn’t come into the race this time around in quite such good form, but there’s no doubt that the pace of the American races and the tight track will play to his strengths, and he is anything but a forlorn hope to repeat the dose. totesport’s offer of 5/1 might look very generous by 10pm on Saturday night!
Red Rocks will have to turn the form around with Aidan O’ Brien’s Dylan Thomas (Evens favourite), already successful in three Group 1 events this term, including, of course, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp earlier in the month. It remains to be seen how much that incredible performance took out of the horse.
The enigmatic George Washington (also trained by O’Brien) will try his luck in the final event of the night, the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. Although he looks to have his work cut out against a strong home challenge, this talented horse could turn it on when it matters and totesport’s offer of 9/1 will attract many punters.
With O’Brien’s St James’s Palace Stakes winner Excellent Art (7/2f) and Sir Michael Stoute’s four time winner Jeremy (8/1) in the ‘Mile’, there are no end of reasons for wanting to have a bet with totesport in one of the great occasions of the sporting calendar.
Races commence at 1730 (UK) on Saturday, with the ‘Juvenile Fillies’, and conclude at 2230 with the ‘Classic’.
