Last year’s beaten favourite Vauban returns to Australia in the Melbourne Cup 2024 for Willie Mullins and Rich Ricci. Despite failing to fire 12 months ago, connections want another tilt at the A$9,400,000 Grade 1 handicap. With such big money on offer, first prize is worth more £2,350,000 at current exchange rates, it’s no wonder. …

The Sodexo Gold Cup is the second of two Premier Handicap Chases in the latest Ascot preview as jumps racing returns to Berkshire on Saturday, 2 November.  Supporting that 3m feature contest is another £100,000 race in the 2m 1f Byrne Group Handicap Chase. The £60,000 Lavazza Handicap Hurdle slots in-between the Premier Handicaps over …

The Charlie Hall Chase fixture held over two days in early November is an early staging post in the core National Hunt season, so our horse racing experts preview Wetherby races and all the action. There is plenty going on here too. Friday’s card contains the Listed Wensleydale Juvenile Hurdle and a Premier Handicap Chase. …

There is so much global interest in the Breeders’ Cup 2024 from the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in California that we just had to have our horse racing experts take a look. A two-day meet, this year’s edition takes place on Friday, 1 and Saturday, 2 November. Many runners from the British Isles cross the …

The Showcase Meeting at Cheltenham is the first chance in the new National Hunt season for Festival hopefuls to gain valuable experience of the jumps racing. Held towards the end of October before Halloween, this two-day event can provide pointers for the future. All Cheltenham meetings matter to horse racing betting sites, even a more …

A glut of equine superstars must handle tacky soft autumn ground on QIPCO British Champions Day again this year. Ascot has moved the three races held on the Round Course to the inner track and not for the first time. With a Champion Stakes to savour and a no less intriguing Queen Elizabeth II Stakes …

Another edition of the Dubai Future Champions Festival from Newmarket concludes on Saturday, 12 October with the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. This is one of the top juvenile races of the entire calendar and always shapes the markets for the following season’s Classics. Supporting this are a couple of other trials for young horses hoping …

The two-day meeting that is the Chepstow Jump Season Opener concludes in South Wales on Saturday, 12 October with a seven-race card. Handicaps dominate here with the Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle acting as the feature contest. Novice chasers go for the Robert Mottram Memorial Trophy in Listed action. Other handicaps you can take a punt …

The Dubai Future Champions Festival kicks off at Newmarket on Friday, 11 October with Group 1 action courtesy of the Fillies’ Mile. As this two-day meeting’s name suggests, it is largely centred on horses with their careers in front of them. That makes it tricky for punters when placing wagers on horse racing betting sites, …

The Chepstow Jump Season Opener is a two-day meeting that acts at the traditional curtain-raiser for the core part of the National Hunt season in horse racing. It begins with an eight-race card on Friday, 11 October in South Wales. Headlining the opening day is the Grade 2 Persian War Novices’ Hurdle that often produces …