Ascot Offers/Notes from last year

Sure more will come out but more for me if anything a few to remember. Interesting BV are fobbing off Hughes...

Ladbrokes

If your selection finishes second in any race from Royal Ascot between Tuesday 18th June and Saturday 22nd June 2013, we will refund your losing bet, as a free bet, up to £/€25.

Assume Willhill will do the same as always through RacingPost App.

BetVictor

Place a bet on any race at Royal Ascot and if Champion Jockey Richard Hughes finishes in the frame(placed) BetVictor will refund your net losses on the race up to £25 as a FREE BET!

Paddy Power

If Animal Kingdom wins the Queen Anne Stakes, we will refund all losing win single stakes on the race upto £100

Notes from last year:

·         Pipe - for staying races

·         Hannon - Second string horses. 2yr olds. Partnership with Hughes, non-handicaps, not above 1m2f and those that have come via Newbury, ridden by Dobbs or Hughes last time out. Not Moore

·         Fanshawe – Back all of his older horses

·         O’Briens horses who didn’t perform well last time at 2m tend to bounce back but not if over 17/2. Group 1 horses

·         Stoute – Avoid runners over 1m

·         Johnston – 1m2f-2m, lay if below, Group 3 horses best rated 96-103

·         Gosden – Lay handicaps, but look at Group 2s, fillies and mares Ribsdale and Sandringham

·         Bell - fillies and 3yr old handicaps

·         Morrison – handicaps especially those under 16/1

·         Wachman – 2 yr olds

·         Murtagh - over 1m, Group1, with Noseda, Fanshawe and Bell and partnered the horse before

·         Fortune - previous rides on a horse

·         Spencer - straight track only, lay on round track

·         Check previous Epsom form as a good indicator

·         Clear/Joint favourites coming from Curragh, Newmarkte, Newbury and Chester in non-handicaps only for Group 1 and 2 only 2 and 3 yr old only. Lay the other favourites

·         Royal Hunt Cup - Previous 5 winners got their RPR on polytrack- Dimension 10/1

·         Wokingham – winners have decent course form

·         All handicaps: Don’t back horses going from graded/listed down into handicap C1 and C2. Banded ‘ideal’ 8st8lb to 8st10lb band handicaps

·         All handicaps and 3 yr old handicaps from Haydock last run do well

·         3 yr old handicaps - those who stepped up in class do well

·         Group 1 - up/down 1 furlong, clear favourites do well, but lay runners who step up in class

·         Group 2 - those who contested previously in Group 2 don’t do well

·         Group races - Avoid runners from Goodwood and Windsor

·         Jersey Stakes, Queen Alexandra, Sandringham – Big price winners just outside top 2 in market

·         Buckingham Palace Stakes – Look for outsider

·         Draw – check impact after Day 1

·         Ribblesdale – Epsom Oaks favourite gone on to win 5 times