Special Features

ITV Racing cameras will be at Sandown Park on Thursday evening to show four races, including the Listed Heron Stakes and National Stakes, along with a pair of excellent £70,000 Group 3 races. With the bookies already floating prices for the midweek fare, we venture some horses looking sure to make their presence felt.

Justify has already beaten one set of statistics in becoming the first horse since 1882 to land the Kentucky Derby without having raced as two-year-old. On Saturday, he heads to Pimlico with the record books on his side in that his trainer, Bob Baffert, is yet to lose the Preakness with a Kentucky Derby winner.

The Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at 3.40pm is the feature race at Newbury and there’s six supporting contests live on ITV4 on Saturday afternoon, including three from HQ, where the Newmarket card kicks off at 2.05pm…

Not since 2011 has John Gosden trained the Yorkshire Cup winner, when the popular Duncan held on gamely to score, before going on to land the Irish St Leger later that season. But the Newmarket handler must be quite excited about his chances of landing it in 2018...

York’s Dante Stakes card kicks off on Thursday with the Betfred ‘Supports Jack Berry House’ Handicap, a Class 2, 5f dash with 19 horses running of all shapes, ages, backgrounds and sizes. But there are a few to be added to the shortlist in search of a winner in the opener at 2.20pm.

York’s Dante meeting - in fact York Races in general - is always a treat for racing fans and on Wednesday, a quality day with Group action gets started at 2.20pm, where Charlie Appleby and William Buick team up on the Godolphin owned Hamada, who is likely to be the market leader for this 1m4f, Class 2 Handicap contest.