Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Friday, May 24
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Goodwood, Hereford, Haydock and Pontefract.
Category: Horse Racing News
A Special Preakness Stakes Reaffirms Bond Between Fathers and Sons
Back in 2012, when I was really just getting started as a writer, I wrote a long piece for Grantland about my late father, my young son, and a history of Preakness Stakes past. It was about family, and the sport of horse racing, and the strange way sports can carry forward ghosts of the past well into the future. It was about life and death and all kinds of lofty ideas I rarely have the courage to write about anymore. At the time I wrote it, it was not all that hard to write. Trying to go back and read it today, it is nearly impossible for me to look at.
Noel’s Weekend Winners: Saturday Turf Touts in New York
Welcome to Noel Michaels’ Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend best bets and spot plays from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Check back every week for a couple of highlighted selections designed to help you cash a few bets and make some money.
Royal Majesty is Top Turf Contender in Pennine Ridge Stakes
The Grade 2, $200,000 Pennine Ridge Stakes at Belmont at the Big A drew a field of seven, all lightly raced and with three having won or placed in stakes races previously. Legend of Time won the Jumeirah Guineas Stakes and Jumeirah Classic Stakes earlier this year in Dubai.
