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The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Like buying money – The two odds-on ‘steering jobs' tipped to leave bookies in tears at Glorious Goodwood
ANTE-POST punting is a dangerous road littered with torn betslips and shattered dreams. But every now and then a seemingly golden opportunity presents itself. 1 Field Of Gold is getting shorter and shorter in the market - but will surely be the good thing of Goodwood and feature in every rolling multiple for the week Credit: PA Too good to be true? Maybe. But unless you take the plunge you'll never know. Punters who like to smash into favourites at very short prices will often talk about the notion of 'buying money'. It doesn't always work. Just this week we saw 2-13 Royal Ascot runner-up Thesecretadversary beaten by a 28-1 outsider. But you'd hope there would be fewer chances for things to go so seismically wrong in Group 1s. And that's where John Gosden's Field Of Gold and Aidan O'Brien's Illinois come in. Both are currently odds-on for their respective races at next week's Glorious Goodwood. Field Of Gold, who perhaps should have won the 2,000 Guineas, and definitely did win the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes, is a best-price 1-2 to win the Sussex Stakes next Wednesday. Most read in Horse Racing His big market rival - and second-fav - Illinois was second to Trawlerman in last month's Ascot Gold Cup. But he is a proven Group-level performer - albeit he has always come up short in Group 1s - and last finished outside the top two in April 2024 - NINE races ago. He is a best-price 8-11 to win the 2m feature next Tuesday. There is a chance O'Brien could run recent brilliant Newmarket scorer Scandinavia instead. But this looks a golden opportunity for Illinois to get his Group 1, with 4-1 second-fav French Master moving up from handicaps. Backing shorties in a double like this wouldn't be my go-to method of punting. But if you put the pair together now you'd still get better than evens, with a £20 punt returning £48.44 with Ladbrokes. Buying money? Like everything, it comes with its risks... FREE BETS - GET THE BEST SIGN UP DEALS AND RACING OFFERS Commercial content notice: Taking one of the offers featured in this article may result in a payment to The Sun. You should be aware brands pay fees to appear in the highest placements on the page. 18+. T&Cs apply. . Remember to gamble responsibly A responsible gambler is someone who: Read more on the Irish Sun Establishes time and monetary limits before playing Only gambles with money they can afford to lose Never chases their losses Doesn't gamble if they're upset, angry or depressed Gamcare – Gamble Aware – Find our detailed guide on responsible gambling practices here.
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Like buying money – The two odds-on ‘steering jobs' tipped to leave bookies in tears at Glorious Goodwood
The market suggests they can't get beat BANKERS Like buying money – The two odds-on 'steering jobs' tipped to leave bookies in tears at Glorious Goodwood Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ANTE-POST punting is a dangerous road littered with torn betslips and shattered dreams. But every now and then a seemingly golden opportunity presents itself. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Field Of Gold is getting shorter and shorter in the market - but will surely be the good thing of Goodwood and feature in every rolling multiple for the week Credit: PA Too good to be true? Maybe. But unless you take the plunge you'll never know. Punters who like to smash into favourites at very short prices will often talk about the notion of 'buying money'. It doesn't always work. Just this week we saw 2-13 Royal Ascot runner-up Thesecretadversary beaten by a 28-1 outsider. But you'd hope there would be fewer chances for things to go so seismically wrong in Group 1s. And that's where John Gosden's Field Of Gold and Aidan O'Brien's Illinois come in. Both are currently odds-on for their respective races at next week's Glorious Goodwood. Field Of Gold, who perhaps should have won the 2,000 Guineas, and definitely did win the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes, is a best-price 1-2 to win the Sussex Stakes next Wednesday. His big market rival - and second-fav - Rosallion was a big drifter on the Betfair Exchange and could be sent elsewhere. Illinois was second to Trawlerman in last month's Ascot Gold Cup. But he is a proven Group-level performer - albeit he has always come up short in Group 1s - and last finished outside the top two in April 2024 - NINE races ago. He is a best-price 8-11 to win the 2m feature next Tuesday. There is a chance O'Brien could run recent brilliant Newmarket scorer Scandinavia instead. But this looks a golden opportunity for Illinois to get his Group 1, with 4-1 second-fav French Master moving up from handicaps. Backing shorties in a double like this wouldn't be my go-to method of punting. But if you put the pair together now you'd still get better than evens, with a £20 punt returning £48.44 with Ladbrokes. Buying money? Like everything, it comes with its risks... FREE BETS - GET THE BEST SIGN UP DEALS AND RACING OFFERS Commercial content notice: Taking one of the offers featured in this article may result in a payment to The Sun. You should be aware brands pay fees to appear in the highest placements on the page. 18+. T&Cs apply. Remember to gamble responsibly A responsible gambler is someone who: Establishes time and monetary limits before playing Only gambles with money they can afford to lose Never chases their losses Doesn't gamble if they're upset, angry or depressed Gamcare – Gamble Aware – Find our detailed guide on responsible gambling practices here.
The Sun
17-07-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Aidan O'Brien up for a fight as Group 1 superstar with ‘blistering turn of foot' smashed in betting for £1million race
AIDAN O'BRIEN is up for a scrap with John Gosden - after a massive market move suggested Delacroix is set to take on Field Of Gold. A tidal wave of money for the former means the Group 1 superstars will likely do battle in the awesome £1million Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. 1 And sandwiched in the middle is Richard Hannon's star miler Rosallion. It looked like brilliant St James's Palace winner Field Of Gold would be in a straight head-to-head with Rosallion. But the fact Delacroix has been destroyed from as big as 25-1 into 5-1 shows 'the lads' at Coolmore fancy their chances at a mile. Delacroix won the 1m2f Coral-Eclipse on his last run, coming from nowhere under Ryan Moore to nut Ombudsman on the line. O'Brien said afterwards that Moore had told him he felt Delacroix would be a miler. And they will now test that theory - after it had looked likely he would head to the Juddmonte at York. But the money is rarely wrong with the Coolmore horses. William Hill slashed Delacroix to 5s from 16-1. And spokesperson Lee Phelps said: "We're two weeks away from the Sussex Stakes, and the much-anticipated clash between Field Of Gold and Delacroix could be coming sooner than we thought. "The Juddmonte had seemed their potential first head-to-head, but we've taken notable money for Aidan O'Brien's Eclipse hero to see him more than halve in price for the Sussex. "He's now a 5-1 shot from 16s, and while he still has a way to go to get to Field Of Gold at 4-7 favourite, his price collapse could suggest that Ballydoyle are seriously considering dropping him back to the mile. "We'd still expect Field Of Gold to be very hard to beat over this course and distance, but their meeting would be a tantalising prospect for racing fans." . Remember to gamble responsibly A responsible gambler is someone who:
Spectator
16-07-2025
- Business
- Spectator
Labour is risking the future of racing
The only political party with a serious chance of winning office I will ever vote for again is the one which acknowledges that in all probability and at least for a while it will increase taxes. Every party piles up promises that they will be the ones to get Britain working again. But building power stations, reservoirs and schools costs money. So does hiring doctors and nurses, filling potholes and getting trains to run on time. Some claim they will finance their plans by creating growth, some by taxing the rich. Then voters discover that the growth fairy remains elusive and the rich have been re-defined to include them: public regard for politicians takes another dive. That the Labour party has blown its promises in record time and blundered its way through welfare reforms into creating a £5 billion hole in its finances comes as no special surprise. It is merely the latest example. What worries me is that in digging down the back of the sofa and checking the pockets of long-unworn suits in the search for cash, ministers may well begin destroying a historic sport which has given me and many millions a lifetime's enjoyment and which supports thousands of jobs in rural areas. Racing is in danger and the unusual speed with which the sport's sectoral interests are coming together to campaign against a new 'racing tax' shows that it knows it. Warning signals have been piling up. Fewer foals are being bred. Prize money levels are in decline compared with other racing jurisdictions. Thanks to the nonsensical way in which affordability checks on punters are being implemented, betting turnover is down £1.6 billion over the past two years. Since racing depends on money from a levy based on bookmakers' profits for a third of its finances, that loss is serious. Now, against that background, the Treasury has instigated a study into amalgamating the 15 per cent General Betting Duty on racing bets with the 21 per cent duty charged on online gaming. A tearfully desperate Chancellor can be expected to grab any extra revenue she can and with parliament these days in a moralistic mood over problem gambling, what would be presented as a Treasury tidying-up may not meet the political resistance it should. The British Horseracing Authority has calculated that 'harmonisation' of the two betting duties at 21 per cent into a single Remote Betting and Gaming Duty would result in a loss to racing of £66 million a year from the levy, media rights and sponsorship. The sport's elder statesman, Newmarket trainer John Gosden, is no alarmist but he has called the 'racing tax', as it has been dubbed, one of the gravest risks the sport has ever faced. Lumping racing together with gaming, he and other trainers argue, would make racing the most expensive product for bookmakers who would concentrate instead on gaming products (proven incidentally to be more of a danger to problem gamblers than horseracing). It threatens too what Gosden calls a massive upsurge in black-market gambling, whereby no revenue comes back to the government, no revenue benefits the sport and wherein there is no protection for the punter. Most MPs know nothing about horseracing. Fortunately, at least two sensible voices from right and left are making themselves heard. Conservative Nick Timothy and Labour MP Dan Carden, chair of parliament's racing and bloodstock group, have been urging the government not to legislate racing out of existence, arguing that the industry contributes £4.1 billion to the economy and £300 million a year to the Treasury while keeping 100,000 people in work. Both speak from knowledge. Timothy is the MP for West Suffolk, which includes the training centre of Newmarket, while Carden represents Liverpool Walton, home to Aintree's Grand National, and he made a key point in telling the Racing Post that betting on horseracing is fundamentally different to casino activity: 'Racing bets are grounded in skill, knowledge and careful judgment… this isn't reckless gambling, it's thoughtful engagement with a historic sport that rewards patience and insight rather than impulsive risk-taking.' I couldn't agree more. I haven't had a bet on the turn of a card or the whirl of a roulette wheel in 40 years but the intricacies of horseracing offer endlessly enjoyable debate and occasional success. Like the late Barry Hills, I watch out next time for horses which were hard to pull up on their previous run. My form-guru friend rarely misses a winner wearing blinkers for the first time. Within hours of telling my son last Saturday that horses sent north by Berkshire trainer Andrew Balding and ridden by P.J. Mcdonald are always worth a look, I had winners at 5-1 and 14-1 in my profits column. If you have ever enjoyed the few minutes of ownership that betting on a racehorse gives you then now is the time to act: contact your MP and tell them if they vote for the betting tax then you won't be voting for them ever again. It does help to concentrate the mind.
Scottish Sun
15-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
John Gosden fined after yard worker who took ketamine three days a week contaminated horses including ‘the new Enable'
WAIT A MIN John Gosden fined after yard worker who took ketamine three days a week contaminated horses including 'the new Enable' TRAINER John Gosden has been fined after a yard worker who took ketamine three days a week made one of his horses - who punters dubbed 'the new Enable' - fail a drugs test following her debut win. Iconic handler Gosden and his son Thady have been fined £3,000 by the BHA after two of their horses tested positive for the banned substance. 2 Famed trainer John Gosden, far left, and son and co-trainer Thady Gosden, far right, have been fined £3,000 after two of their horses tested positive for ketamine Credit: The Mega Agency 2 Zilfee, in the pink and green Juddmonte silks, is a half-sister to the great Enable - and looked a potential star on winning debut at Kempton... only to now be stripped of victory having failed a drugs test Zilfee, a half-sister to the awesome Arc, King George, Oaks and Breeders' Cup Turf-winning Enable, was first past the post on debut at Kempton in June last year. But after testing positive for the powerful hallucinogenic, the Juddmonte-owned filly's debut victory has been sensationally scrubbed from the record books and her prize money of almost £4,000 must be returned. A BHA Disciplinary Panel also found another Gosden-trained horse, Morrophore, had tested positive for ketamine. The findings came about after a yard worker - Person A - said they used the drug three times a week 'recreationally'. The worker had direct care for Morrophore, who failed a test after finishing sixth at Yarmouth last July. But another yard worker who looked after Zilfee claimed that horse tested positive for ketamine after they used Person A's kitbag on the day in question. An investigation by the BHA summarised in the fast-track hearing read: "Person A was employed by the Gosdens from October 2023 to August 2024. Background to the case The admitted breaches of the Rules of Racing in respect of Rule (K)2.2 are in respect of the presence of Ketamine (and its metabolites), a Prohibited Substance, in a post-race urine sample taken from the horse ZILFEE (GB) after being placed first in the Unibet/EBF Maiden Fillies Stakes (GBB Race) at Kempton Racecourse on 12 June 2024 and in a post-race urine sample taken from the horse MORROPHORE (FR) after racing at Yarmouth Racecourse on 10 July 2024. An out-of-competition sample was taken from ZILFEE (GB) on 10 July 2024. The hair sample demonstrated likely multiple low-level exposures to Ketamine over many months. An out-of-competition sample was taken from MORROPHORE (FR) on 6 August 2024. The hair and urine samples demonstrated prolonged exposure to Ketamine. Rule (K)2.2 states that Prior to leaving the Racecourse, no Category B Prohibited Substance is present in their horse's body on a day on which it is engaged to run in a Race. Pursuant to the Prohibited List Code, Ketamine is a Category B Prohibited Substance, prohibited on race day. "She admitted recreational ketamine use approximately three times per week whilst not at work. "Person A had direct care for and rode MORROPHORE (FR). "Person A took MORROPHORE (FR) to Great Yarmouth on 10 July 2024. "Person A did not have direct care of ZILFEE (GB) but the horse's groom had used Person A's kit bag at the racecourse on 12 June 2024. "Person A denied any direct administration of ketamine and believed that there was cross contamination as a result of the fact that she not always washing her hands before coming to work. "She admitted that she had been taken through the induction procedure. "This included the Substance Misuse Policy which emphasised the need to avoid cross contamination." The BHA conducted an inspection of the famed Gosden Clarehaven yard in July and August 2024. Hair samples, swabs and bedding samples were taken from four further horses and all hair samples contained ketamine. The father-son duo were interviewed in January this year having already brought random drug and alcohol testing of staff into force. In the Disciplinary Panel 'assessment of penalty' report, it was deemed 'neither John nor Thady had knowledge of the administration and the yard had a number of reasonable and targeted precautions'. In a statement, the Gosdens said: "We remain committed to the highest standards of care and integrity in our operations and are taking every possible step to avoid any recurrence." FREE BETS - GET THE BEST SIGN UP DEALS AND RACING OFFERS Commercial content notice: Taking one of the offers featured in this article may result in a payment to The Sun. You should be aware brands pay fees to appear in the highest placements on the page. 18+. T&Cs apply. Remember to gamble responsibly A responsible gambler is someone who: Establishes time and monetary limits before playing Only gambles with money they can afford to lose Never chases their losses Doesn't gamble if they're upset, angry or depressed Gamcare – Gamble Aware – Find our detailed guide on responsible gambling practices here.
