Best bets for The Horse Racing Saturday 23rd August 2024 around the world
With three winners yesterday, including the gedling I hold a handful of shares in with Raceshare Treasure Time storming home at York, I can’t complain but also tipping three seconds on the day was annoying…………. Anyway, it’s another day of international interest for me with fancies throughout the day across the world of horse racing. The weather here in the UK will have a say today, it’s been tipping down at Triple G Towers, and has to be a consideration.
Best bet for the horse racing at York the Ebor Festival
The going remains good-firm at York and the rain should miss them today. Dirty Dozen member See The Fire runs in the opener the Group Three 1m1f Sky Bet Strensall Stakes at 1.50. Down the field in the 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes at the start of the season she was fourth in the G.1 1m2f Eclipse at Sandown before being beaten just a neck by Opera Singer in the G.1 1m2f Nassau Stakes at Goodwood recently. This looks like a great opportunity for her to gain a well deserved victory. As a three-year-old filly she get weights for all her rivals I am on at 11-4
Several I have tipped before line-up in the Group Two 7f Sky Bet City Of York Stakes at 3.00 and it is very difficult to ignore Audience. Backing odds-on in the race aint for me though. William Haggas sends Lake Forest and he is interesting with the step up in trip promising to suit. Second over six on his two starts this season, including the G.1 Commonwealth Cup at Ascot, he has looked as though he is crying out for seven now. If Tom Marquand can get him in a fair spot early he can hopefully get up in the final furlong and I have some of the 7-2 about him doing so.
Best bet for the horse racing at Goodwood
They race on good, good to soft in places on the Downs with rain likely during the day. My speculative Derby bet of 2022 Sonny Liston goes in the mile G.2 William Hill Celebration Mile Stakes at 2.40 but he’s not the one to be on today. Lead Artist took the G.3 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes at Glorious Goodwood over track and trip and the lightly raced three-year-old looks to have a good chance to follow-up here. As a three-year-old he get 6lb from Sonny Liston and Poker Face and that along with the fact further improvement is expected makes him the pick. I have the 7-4 early. If they get a proper storm and it gets particularly soft Poker Face is feared.
Across the Irish Sea Bedtime Story and Henri Matisse are both odds-on in their respective Group Two assignments at the Curragh for Aidan O’Brien and unbackable.
Best bet for the horse racing at Saratoga
The race of the evening in the States, arguably in the world on Saturday, is the Grade One 1m4f Resorts World Sword Dancer Stakes at 8.44 our time. The team satellite team of Moulton Paddocks based at Godolphin’s historic Greentree barn in Saratoga saddle two with Measured Time and Silver Knott running and it looks their race to lose - both are actually members of my Dirty Dozen for the season. Measured Time will be jolly I expect but this is a step-up in trip for him and that is the big worry. I have tipped him several times and you’d expect he’d get the mile-and-a-half but he has to prove it. I said at the start of the season something like the G.2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot could be an aim and was a little surprised to see him out here in the States. He won the G.1 1m1½f G.1 Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes here last time, tipped on here, and with William Buick in town to ride you can see why he is favourite. Silver Knott has been racking up the victories Stateside as predicted earlier this year on the Dirty Dozen page and has won me a few quid in the process. The four-year-old has scored on three his starts so far this year with impressive wins in the 1m4f G.2 Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland’s Spring Meet, beating odds-on stablemate Bold Act, the 1m3f G.2 Man o’War Stakes at Aqueduct in May and most recently the G.2 Bowling Green Stakes here at Saratoga over 1m3f. Regular rider for the team in the States Flavien Prat is in the saddle. Charlie Appleby said “Measured Time’s work has been great recently and he has done very well since shipping out to America. The mile and the half is the obvious question mark, but we are pretty confident that he will get the trip, especially considering his pedigree. We know that Silver Knott stays a mile and a half well, and he has thrived in the States this season. If there is any issue with Measured Time not staying, he is going to be the one to hopefully capitalise on it. It’s a belt and braces approach with two solid contenders, and I would be disappointed if we don’t walk away with the prize.” I am sticking with Sliver Knott and have some of the standout 2-1 with Paddy Power early as I think he might just out stay his stablemate.
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