It’s another bumper weekend of horse racing, made ever more so by the amazing totescoop6 rollover. We’ve picked out some of the premier races and hopefully given a few pointers for you to have a bet on as well.
Saturday sees afternoon racing from Huntingdon, Ascot, Haydock and Lingfield , with interesting festival claims for some of the National Hunt contingent.
Going through the cards in time order, we have the Betfair Hurdle at Haydock going off at 1.40pm where Champion Hurdle favourite Binocular will go off a big odds on shot against four other runners. This should be a shoe in for the Nicky Henderson four year old but at that price it might be worth sticking in a double.
Quarter of an hour later down at Ascot the second in the Champion Hurdle betting, Crack Away Jack has his second outing of the season. After hacking up in the Fred Winter last March and an even more impressive winner at Chepstow last time out he’s the talking horse here and will take all the beating.
It is a competitive race though and Chomba Womba also has claims after winning the Elite Hurdle last time out and the stable being in cracking form. If you can back Franchoek at 5’s or bigger he may be worth an each way bet. The Alan King trained youngster had a cracking start to last season after finishing the year disappointingly and although probably better left watched this time a nice juicy price might be too much of a temptation.
Back up the M6 to Haydock and the Betfair Chase at 2.15pm sees one of the sports great rivalries come head to head once again. Exotic Dancer has finished runner up to Kauto Star on three previous occasions and the betting suggests Saturday will be no different with the Nicholls trained Gold Cup winner 4/9 in the non runner no bet market at totesport. Exotic Dancer is 3/1 second favourite.
We can’t let tomorrow’s feature go without mentioning the record totescoop6. The action kicks off at 2.10pm from Lingfield and if you pick the six winners you could scoop up to £4.5 million.
Just a quick mention of Sunday’s action from Aintree with the totesport.com Becher Chase the feature from Liverpool.
Last years winner Mr Pointment goes off favourite this time again over the Grand National fences. The Nicholls trained nine-year-old carried a pound less last year so the weight shouldn’t be a problem and we know he gets the trip.
One to oppose him might be the second favourite Irish Raptor. Nigel Twiston Davies will be looking for a big race weekend double after scooping the Paddy Power last week and this horse will give him every chance. The nine year old gets the trip and receives a stone from the favourite making him definitely one to watch.
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