Betting on the 2000 Guineas with totesport
The 2000 Guineas Stakes, run at Newmarket in early May, is the first colt’s classic of the British Flat racing season and is a popular race among totesport punters.
The one mile contest, run on the Rowley Mile straight but undulating course, tests the agility of the horses from three furlongs out, where they run down into a dip and then have to battle on up an incline to the finishing post.
The race usually establishes a marker for Europe’s top three-year-old colts for the remainder of the year.
First run in 1809, the 2000 Guineas is a major betting event that bubbles along through the winter season as rumour and counter-rumour as to the wellbeing of the leading candidates for the race cause fluctuations in the betting. totesport’s 2000 Guineas ante-post market offers you the opportunity to step in early and back their fancy at a price that very often proves to be much more rewarding than on the day of the race itself.
In the modern era, the 2000 Guineas has seen some of the greatest names in the sport lay down their claims to racing immortality. The race has supplied many subsequent winners of the Epsom Derby and with the great Nijinsky victory in 1970, was the first leg of an astonishing ‘Triple Crown’ that saw Lester Piggott and Vincent O’Brien’s horse go on to win at Epsom in June before concluding with a famous win in the St Leger at Doncaster in September.
Aside of Nijinsky, household names such as Sir Ivor (1968), Brigadier Gerard (1971), El Gran Senor (1984), Dancing Brave (1986), Nashwan (1989), Mark Of Esteem (1996), Rock Of Gibraltar (2002) and latterly the ill-fated George Washington (2006), have cemented the race’s top class credentials. The winner of this race is automatically worth a fortune at stud, but could go on to further enhance that value, if able to prove up to the task of winning over Epsom’s mile-and-a-half course in the Derby.
Aidan O’Brien, the master of Ballydoyle stables in Ireland, has been very much the man to follow in the race over the last decade, sending out the winner on no less than four occasions. Sir Michael Stoute has also been on target twice during the same period, whilst the now side-lined jockey Keiren Fallon has partnered four winners in the last 10 years.
We at totesport, as well as offering ante-post prices for the race, have a range of outstanding betting products available up to the moment before the ‘off’, via our high street shops as well as online or over the telephone.
