York Tips: Horse Racing Predictions & Odds ITV Racing Thursday
Time for day two of the York Dante Festival, and it's a day that features the race that the meeting is named after, the Dante Stakes.
The Dante is one of the main Epsom Derby trials, and all of the big stables are represented here. I've got a tip for the feature race below, as part of my three selections.
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York Tips - Thursday
My three tips below come with odds from betting sites so you can see how the markets are shaping up for the races, and they are all live as part of the ITV Racing coverage.
York 2:20pm - Air Force One (EW)
This is a step up in quality and competitiveness for Air Force One, but I liked the manner in which he won last time out at Beverley.
That was still a pretty good race, and in the end he won by a head, and has gone up 2lb in the weights for it.
But that doesn't tell the whole picture, he got up in the closing stages after needing to sit tight and wait for a gap. My guess is he would have won by perhaps a couple of lengths, with a clear run, and been put up 5lb for that kind of margin.
He's a course and distance winner here, which helps, and PJ McDonald retains the ride. He's got a fair each way chance here.
- Recommendation: Air Force One (EW)
York 4:05pm - Christmas Day (NAP)
Shouting about Christmas Day may not be top of the things we'd usually do in May, but I'm hoping we are shouting him home in the feature race of the day, the Dante Stakes, with Ryan Moore on board.
He won first time out at Leopardstown this season, and I've taken two things from that, as not too many of Aidan's have been winning early. Firstly, I think he's good, and secondly, I think he's ahead of some of their other runners in terms of work and fitness.
Do I think he's a Derby winner? He's not my favourite from that yard, never mind from the race as a whole, but perhaps he'll prove me wrong in time.
He was a real improver for time last year, it took him three starts to get on the board, but after winning a maiden, won a Group Three race less than a month later.
This season, a win in the Group Three Ballysax Stakes, when not really fancied in the market, Aidan ran four in the race and he was the outsider of those four.
I don't thin this is a vintage renewal, and we saw the O'Brien team take plenty of trial glory at Chester and Lingfield last week, I'm backing him to land the Dante today.
- Recommendation: Christmas Day (NAP)
York 4:40pm - Revival Power
A tightly contested five furlong Listed sprint, where I like the chances of Revival Power from the Tim Easterby yard.
A debut winner as a two year old, the yard don't have too many, and if they do win on debut, they tend to be above average, this horse went onto prove that.
She won a Listed contest over course and distance here, before going on to win a Group Two race at Doncaster.
Fifth on her final start, that was a really good Group Three, so I don't think it's as bad as the finishing position suggests.
Her debut win last year tells me she can be readied first time up, she'll not mind the rain, has a C&D win, and a Group Two win under her belt.
She does have a 5lb penalty to carry, but I think she can prove to be a really nice type over the minimum trip, and capable of landing this Listed contest.
- Recommendation: Revival Power
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