Godolphin hat-trick in Lockinge

Stick with the market in main event

We are treated to a fabulous day of horse racing on Saturday at Newbury, with their seven-race card headlined by the eagerly-awaited group one Lockinge Stakes, due to post at 3.30pm.

Click here to pick your winner of the main event, or any of Saturday’s UK and Irish horse racing schedule. Read on as we lay-out our plan of attack in the one-mile feature, or skip to the bottom of the page, where you’ll find our race-by-race selections. It’s a day for winning big!

Ribchester a convincing favourite

Nine runners are marked down to contest the crown won by Belardo for Roger Varian 12 months ago. Our traders have nailed their colours firmly to the mast in the run-up, and have Ribchester priced as a convincing favourite, ahead of Galileo Gold, who leads the chasing pack at 3/1.

Normally, we’d look to take the shortest price on, and find an angle in to the race value, but in Ribchester there looks to be a jolly more than capable of living up to the pre-race hype. Richard Fahey’s impressive four-year-old colt has only once finished outside of the first three in his 10 starts so far, the spare in that run a fourth.

Return to a mile will suit

He has won the group two Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury, Ascot’s group three Jersey Stakes, and went to France, doing the business in the group one Jacques Le Marois last summer. Run only once so far this year, and that was at Meydan, finishing third in the Dubai Turf, another group one race, won by Vivlos.