Horse Racing Tips: Haggas and Marquand tipped for Goodwood glory
There are seven meetings taking place on Friday and the most intriguing card comes at Goodwood this afternoon as both the Listed Height Of Fashion Stakes and Cocked Hat Stakes have attracted decent fields. As well as Goodwood there's alternative racing this afternoon at Bath and Haydock Park, while there's a quartet of fixtures from Curragh, Downpatrick, Worcester and Catterick this evening. We preview all the action here and pick out some of the most eye-catching best bets on what is a busy day's racing in the UK & Ireland...
William Haggas and Tom Marquand have struck up an excellent relationship in recent times and the pair have some huge chances at Goodwood on Friday and the first popular choice amongst our racing tipsters is Lysander, who is a 6/4 chance for the Cocked Hat Stakes at 15:20. An impressive winner at Newcastle last time out, the New Approach colt will need to improve on that effort to land the spoils here, but four tipsters including the likes of Lee Sobot of the Yorkshire Evening Post and Andrew Bladen from the Wolverhampton Express & Star have tipped up the exciting three-year-old.
Earlier on in the afternoon, Haggas and Marquand will team up with the 7/4 market leader Sea Silk Road in the Height Of Fashion Stakes at 14:10 and three tipsters including Marlborough from the Daily Telegraph have picked out the Sea The Stars filly as the best bet of the day.
The Scout of the Daily Express has been in tremendous tipping form of late racking up a trio of winners and the form tipster is taking on the aforementioned Lysander with Natural World, who is a 3/1 chance for the 15:20 at Goodwood and looks to be a huge contender in a competitive contest.
Other notable selections at Goodwood include 12/1 chance Stockpyle in the 13:35 at Goodwood, who is the best bet of Lambourn of the Racing Post, who sits second in the naps table, while Templegate from The Sun has tipped up Spinaround in the same 13:35 contest.
Expert Eye from On The Nose continued a fine start to the current naps table and duly notched up a 14th winning nap from 28 selections on Thursday, and with a profit of £40.21, the top tipster has headed to Catterick's evening fixture for the best bet of the day. Siding with the Paul Midgley-trained 7/2 chance Glory Fighter in the 19:03 contest, Expert Eye is hoping the six-year-old can bounce back from a mediocre run at Thirsk last time out.
RP Ratings from the Racing Post sits in fourth place in the naps table and heads to Haydock's Flat meeting on Friday and is backing the 11/4 chance Dougies Dream to score in the 16:15 race, while another eye-catching best bet at Haydock is the 7/1 chance Animato, who runs in the 16:45 contest and is the best bet of Lawrence Taylor from At The Races, who has a current profit of £10.63.