#Brad The Brief

Richard Kingscote: gets the plum ride back on board Great Ambassador in the Ayr Gold Cup Richard Kingscote will be reunited with Great Ambassador in the Ayr Gold Cup (3.40) after the ante-post favourite was confirmed in a full field of 25 runners for Saturday's feature race. The son of Exceed And Excel has been in flying form since moving to Ed…

Go Bears Go: classy sprinter was a winner in Ireland last time Dave Loughnane on Monday played down any fears about the health of his string and reckons Go Bears Go has a fine chance of underlining that in the Betfair Sprint Cup (3.30) at Haydock on Saturday. Loughnane has saddled 30 British Flat winners this year and 14 came in April and March,…

THE Ayr Gold Cup is Scotland's richest Flat race and one of the biggest betting heats of the season. The overall pot is £150000, with the winner netting over £75000 for connections. The value of the six furlong race attracts horses from some of England and Scotland's top yards. Great Ambassador won the Garrowby Stakes at York earlier this month and…

The tail-end of the Group stakes offerings on Saturday's British Champions Day card at Ascot includes a couple short-priced favorites, Inspiral and Baaeed, that may not be the best to take a stand against. However, there are several competitive betting affairs with larger fields earlier in the card, and a couple horses have caught my eye as…

BAAEED is the star attraction on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday afternoon and he can end on a high with victory in the Group One QIPCO Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (4pm). But at cramped odds he is not really a betting proposition but his Willie Haggas' stable-mate SEA LA ROSA certainly is in the Group One QIPCO…

Baaeed headlines an all-star cast for Qipco British Champions Day as the world's best turf horse bows out in the feature Champion Stakes (4.00). William Haggas' star is a red-hot 1-5 favourite for the ten-furlong contest but the presence of last year's Derby and King George winner Adayar means that the champion will need to be on his A-game if he…

The 2022 Flat season is well under way and it is full steam ahead to the first of the Irish Classics this weekend - the Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas and Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas - and next month's Epsom Classics, the Cazoo Derby and Cazoo Oaks. Market movers come thick and fast as the key Classic trials are run in Britain and Ireland, but…

A total of 19 horses were left in Haydock's Betfair Sprint Cup (3.30) at the six-day stage on Monday with Nunthorpe winner Highfield Princess the most notable absentee. With John Quinn's star filly not going for a hat-trick of Group 1 wins, the £350000 sprint which highlights Saturday's action looks wide open. We assess the key contenders. .…

NEWMARKET trainer Charlie Appleby made it an historic three victories in all of this year's 2000 Guineas after Native Trial took the Irish classic at the Curragh on Saturday in the hands of William Buick. Appleby had celebrated success in the English Guineas with Coroebus, the French classic with Modern Games and now made it a clean sweep when…

The flat racing season might be drawing to a close, but it's still an exciting time of the year for its loyal following - with the prestigious Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe recently taking place at the iconic Longchamp racecourse in Paris, while British Champions Day, the big-money Breeders' Cup World Championships in America and the Melbourne Cup are…

ASCOT Champions Day looks set to bring the curtain down in style of another stellar Flat season. And a whole host of superstars are expected to take their place following Monday's latest confirmations. Baaeed, the world's best horse, is the headline act in the Champion Stakes. But at 1-4 he is hardly a punting proposition - unless being used to add…

Emaraaty Ana: beat Starman in last year's Sprint Cup at Haydock The Betfair Sprint Cup (3.30 Haydock) is the standout feature over the weekend and we have looked back over a number of factors to see who may win Saturday's Group 1 showdown. In the last ten years, Twilight Son (2015) has been the only winner rated lower than 110. He was rated 104…

1pt win Castle Star in British Champions Sprint Stakes at 33/1 (General) With Highfield Princess all but confirmed for Keeneland and the Breeders' Cup in early-November, Ascot's QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes looks as open as ever and I'm certainly not bowled over by the idea of backing 6/1 market leader Alcohol Free, who has been mixing it…

The Ayr Gold Cup is Scotland's most prestigious flat race. The race is on Saturday afternoon and has a whopping £150000 overall prize fund, with £77000 going to the winner. The value of the six furlong race attracts horses from some of England and Scotland's top yards. Great Ambassador won the Garrowby Stakes at York earlier this month and is the…

TEMPLEGATE has picked out some surefire winners across Saturday's big races and beyond. Read on for our man's tips and don't forget you can back a horse by just clicking on their odds. MINZAAL (3.30 Haydock, nap) He was impressive when taking a Sandown Group 3 before a fast-finishing second in this grade at Deauville last month. This trip is ideal…

A big field and a fierce pace looks on the cards for the Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock on Saturday and that can help Rohaan, a 9-1 chance with Betfred and Sky Bet, strike in the Group One feature. It's evident that the dual Wokingham winner is in his element when he can pounce late after being buried away in races run at end-to-end gallops over a…