Friday Racing Tips

Today's free racing tips will focus on the Sandown Jackpot card and will be available before the first race at 1.15

Finding winners has been tough this week,it has been tempting to look to Ireland but I usually prefer to stick with UK racing.

One meeting I will be watching with interest is the Kentucky Derby with regards especially to the Godolphin runers as this is one trophy they really want to win.

The Independent reports:

""We don't even know if we have got a Kentucky Derby contender until Saturday," Simon Crisford, the Godolphin racing manager, admitted yesterday. "If we've got a genuine contender we will see it then.

"Essence Of Dubai would be top of the pecking order. He is a pretty straightforward type of colt who won a Group Two [the Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita] in California last year. He beat Firebreak in the UAE Guineas and it was a hard-fought, inconclusive victory, but then he's not the type of horse to win races by a wide margin. He's progressed since. Hopefully stepping him up to a mile and a quarter will work in his favour.

"This is a colt by Pulpit and he's going to stay. If you look at all the Kentucky Derby trials it seems to be all speed, but ultimately staying is going to be the name of the game. Our horses have had a pretty active winter. We've been on the go since the middle of January with a lot of them. A horse like Essence Of Dubai is hardened."