I was seeing nothing really exciting for Lay bets yesterday, but while keeping an eye on a slight possibility, I spotted MILLARDS LAD in the 3.00 at Newton Abbot . With no recent form, and having not run for eight months, the horse was still expected to trot out and race over 3 miles And when I say “expected”, I mean that somebody must have stuck a tidy lump of cash on the animal, to push it from 10/1 or more, down to 3/1 favourite, and it would be expected to win. And it did. Somebody knew something. Okay, so the horse has won in the past, but not for a long time. Keep your eyes open for these situations, which can sometimes bring you in a winner at good odds.
Horse racing: Cast-iron win for Bowen
IRON MAN lived up to his name when overcoming a nightmare 17-hour journey from South Wales to Market Rasen to provide Peter Bowen with a fourth win in the totesport.com Summer Plate on Saturday.
Bowen and the six-year-old set out on the 259-mile trip from Haverfordwest at noon on Friday, but, due to the storms and flooding which swamped parts of Britain, they...more
Racing: O'Brien's Soldier takes route past the King George
Aidan O'Brien yesterday ruled out last month's Irish Derby winner, Soldier Of Fortune, from Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and confirmed last year's Curragh hero, Dylan Thomas, and the 2005 St Leger winner, Scorpion, as the two Ballydoyle representatives in the Ascot summer showpiece.
The three-year-old is second favourite to odds-on Dylan Thomas in most betting lists, but O'Brien told The Independent yesterday: "It looks like we'll run Dylan Thomas and Scorpion in the King George, but we're going to give...
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