Weekend Racing from Ayr, Live on Channel 4, Saturday, 2:00pm

September 19, 2008 by Ben Filed under: horse racing

Ayr plays host to Europe’s richest sprint handicap on Saturday when the Ayr Gold Cup gets underway at 3:30pm on Saturday. There is a large field of 27 runners in what is a very open race, with five horses currently at the top of the market. Advanced and Confuchias are the current joint favourites at 8/1 with BGbet and VCbet respectively, closely followed by Hogmaneigh and Valery Borzov. Those two horses are both 9/1 at BetWithRed and VCbet respectively, with Tajneed also favoured at 10/1 with BGbet.

Confuchias is from the stable of trainer Karl Burke, who won the 2007 running of this race with Alway’s Alight, a 16/1 chance that day. Big price outsiders have a good recent record in this race, as the last eleven winners have all been 10/1 or higher at the off. The last winner under that price was Coastal Bluff at 3/1 way back in 1996, which is also the last time the favourite has won this race, can the favourite prevail again or will Ayr produce another big price winner?

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If your horse gets beaten by a short-head or nose in The John Smith’s Ayr Gold Cup at Ayr on Saturday (3:30pm), BGbet will refund your stake in the form of free bets.4

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