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Saturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-29th October 2022 – Seymour Biz
Two excellent meetings this week with the ITV cameras covering four races from Ascot and four from Wetherby. I always enjoy National Hunt racing from Ascot. It is a very fair course with an…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-22nd October 2022 – Seymour Biz
The jumps have arrived! Well sort of with Cheltenham’s first meeting of the season, but there is a very important 2-year-old trial at Doncaster and a couple of Group 3s at Newbury. ITV are…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-15th October 2022 – Seymour Biz
It’s the final day of what has been a stellar flat season and what a great day’s racing it promises to be with six top-grade contests. ITV are covering all six races from the Berkshire…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-08th October 2022 – Seymour Biz
As the flat season draws to a close with the last big handicap, the Cesarewitch, a race which is targeted by some of the big jumps trainers at Newmarket, the ITV cameras are highlighting…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-01st October 2022 – Seymour Biz
Three decent meetings to look forward to this Saturday before owners, trainers and punters jump on the Eurostar to Paris for the Arc on Sunday in one of the most open renewals of this great…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-24th September 2022 – Seymour Biz
Two meetings being televised this week from Newmarket and Haydock with just six races being covered. Newmarket takes centre stage where the best of this season’s crop of 2-year-olds are…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-17th September 2022 – Seymour Biz
Two cracking meetings to look forward to this Saturday and the main action is from Scotland where Ayr stages its biggest day of the year with the Gold Cup being the highlight of the day.…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-10th September 2022 – Seymour Biz
Two fantastic Group 1s to look forward to this week with the final Classic of the season, St Leger at Doncaster and the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown where the French superstar,…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 3rd September 2022 – Seymour Biz
Personally, this is my favourite Saturday of racing throughout the year with Haydock staging their only Group 1 of the season, the Sprint Cup, and ITV are certainly going to town at the…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 27th August 2022 – Seymour Biz
We have three fine, if not exceptional, meetings to look forward to this Saturday on ITV from Goodwood, Beverley and HQ Newmarket. The Goodwood coverage shows four races, three of which are…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 20th August 2022 – Seymour Biz
It is the wonderful York Ebor meeting this week culminating in the Ebor Handicap itself on Saturday. ITV are covering five races from the Knavesmire and along with the Ebor, there are a…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 13th August 2022 – Seymour Biz
A busy Saturday on ITV Racing this week with three very good meetings being televised. The main meeting they are concentrating on is Newbury from where they are covering five races,…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 6th August 2022 – Seymour Biz
This week ITV are mainly concentrating on the Shergar Cup at Ascot. Now I don’t see horse racing as a team game and the day is not really conducive as a betting medium. However, the crowds…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 30th July 2022 – Seymour Biz
It’s the height of summer and the TV cameras are at one of the most visually beautiful courses in the country, that is Glorious Goodwood. ITV are covering no fewer than six races from the…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 23rd July 2022 – Seymour Biz
Two meetings are being televised this week, Ascot and York, two of the country’s top venues. Ascot features the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes where Mishriff looks good to me, this…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 16th July 2022 – Seymour Biz
After last week’s Super Saturday, this week’s follow-up seems pretty meagre fare with four races from Newbury, three from the jumps meeting at Market Rasen and the Irish Oaks from the…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 9th July 2022 – Seymour Biz
We are thrice blessed this Saturday on ITV Racing with probably the top three courses in England being highlighted. There are no fewer than eleven races being televised during the afternoon…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 2nd July 2022 – Seymour Biz
It’s Eclipse Day this Saturday at Sandown where the top crop of middle-distance horses meet their elder counterparts and it looks like we have a great race in the offing once again this…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 25th June 2022 – Seymour Biz
After the heady heights of Royal Ascot last week, we are brought down to earth with less royal fare this week. However, it is Newcastle’s biggest day of the year with the Northumberland…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 18th June 2022 – Seymour Biz
The last day of Ascot used to be known as Ascot Heath but now it’s deemed as Royal Ascot. But whatever it’s called, the quality of racing is not diminished. ITV have provided some great…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 11th June 2022 – Seymour Biz
With Royal Ascot uppermost in most people’s minds as it draws closer, we are left with some pretty meagre fare for this Saturday’s ITV programme. They have chosen to feature races from…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-4th June 2022 – Seymour Biz
The television cameras are concentrating on the Epsom card this Saturday and of course the Derby. There have been some big priced winners of this Blue Riband contest in recent years. In…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-28th May 2022 – Seymour Biz
Plenty to look forward to this Saturday with three televised meetings which all take place in the north of England, Haydock, Chester and Beverley. Haydock has four races on ITV, including…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-21St May– Seymour Biz
There are eight races being covered by ITV this Saturday over three different courses giving us plenty of choice for this week’s selections. The main meeting is Haydock from where four…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-14th May– Seymour Biz
Two of the top courses in the country feature on the ITV this Saturday with four races being televised from Newbury and three from Newmarket. William Haggas’s Baaeed won all six of his…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-7th May– Seymour Biz
It’s a big day at Lingfield on Saturday where they stage their Oaks and Derby Trials and ITV are covering four races from the Surrey course, Walk Of Stars and Life Of Dreams look to…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-30th April– Seymour Biz
It’s the first Classics of the season this weekend with the 2000 Guineas being staged at Newmarket on Saturday when we will see the best colts of their generation come thundering down the…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-23rd April– Seymour Biz
Definitely the end of the jumps season this week with the big meeting at Sandown on Saturday where the bet365 Gold Cup is the highlight backed up by a couple of Graded races and a Class 2…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-16th April– Seymour Biz
The flat really gets going this Easter weekend and we can expect bumper crowds at all the meetings over the Bank Holiday. The ITV is concentrating on two of those meetings at Newbury and…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-9th April– Seymour Biz
It’s the big meeting at Aintree this week and Saturday sees the biggest race of the year with the Grand National off at 5.15. ITV are concentrating all their energies on the meeting from…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-2nd April– Seymour Biz
We are back to the jumping game on ITV this week with two meetings and eight races being televised. There are three races being shown from Newbury, including a Veterans Chase for…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-26th March– Seymour Biz
The flat is back! Well, it’s never really been away, has it? But the March Doncaster meeting heralds the start of the season for me and although there are two important National Hunt…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-19th March– Seymour Biz
After the thrilling racing at Cheltenham during this week we are back to more ordinary fare this Saturday with seven televised races from Uttoxeter and Kempton. There are three races from…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips-12th March– Seymour Biz
Two meetings being covered this week in the run-up to Cheltenham, a jumps meeting at Sandown and a flat meeting at Wolverhampton. There are three races being covered from the Midlands…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 5th March– Seymour Biz
There are three fine meetings to take in this Saturday so forget about Cheltenham for a while and enjoy all that National Hunt racing has to offer. It is Kelso’s big meeting of the year and…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 26th February– Seymour Biz
We have two jump meetings being televised this week with no fewer than five races from Kempton and one from Newcastle. Kempton will see what can only be described as hopefuls flexing their…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 19th February– Seymour Biz
We have seven races from three different courses being televised on ITV this week but are still having to deal with small fields as Cheltenham looms large on the horizon. Just one race is…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 12th February– Seymour Biz
We have two meetings to look forward to this Saturday with five televised races from Newbury and three from Warwick. It’s great to see the Midlands course being highlighted on ITV but both…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 5th February– Seymour Biz
A jamboree for racing fans on ITV over the weekend with the usual Saturday coverage and Musselburgh and the Dublin Festival from Leopardstown on Sunday with four Grade 1’s and a Grade A…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 29th January– Seymour Biz
As can be expected this time of year, the main meetings have some small fields as all roads lead to the Festival in March. This Saturday Cheltenham features what it calls Trials Day prior…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 22nd January– Seymour Biz
The talk of the turf this week is the clash at Ascot between Nicky Henderson’s Shishkin and Willie Mullins’ Energumene. These two heavyweights take each other on in the Clarence House Chase…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 15th January– Seymour Biz
We have two televised meetings to look forward to this Saturday with action from Kempton and Warwick being shown. There are four races from Kempton on offer, including the Listed Lanzarote…
Read moreSaturday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 8th January– Seymour Biz
Not the greatest Saturday of the Jump Racing season with the highlight of the day a Veterans Chase, a three-mile contest at Sandown for horses over 10 years of age. Also on the Sandown card…
Read moreSunday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 1st January– Seymour Biz
Cheltenham stages its highly prestigious New Year’s Day meeting this Saturday with four top-class races being televised and it looks like the Irish trainers are giving their British…
Read moreSunday’s Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 26th November– Seymour Biz
The big Kempton Boxing Day meeting takes place on Sunday, and ITV are covering four races with three Grade 1’s, including King George. This is backed up with a Grade 3 from Wetherby which…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 18th November– Seymour Biz
In the run-up to the festivities, we have had some great racing during December and this Saturday looks to be no exception with top-class cards at Haydock and Ascot. Television cameras are…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 11th November– Seymour Biz
Two cards and seven races are being televised this week from Cheltenham and Doncaster. There are four races from Cheltenham, which include the Racing Post Gold Cup- a Grade 3 Chase, along…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 4th November– Seymour Biz
A tremendous Saturday’s racing to look forward to this week with four proper National Hunt meetings on offer with racing taking place throughout the country. Aintree, Chepstow, Sandown and…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 27th November– Seymour Biz
Two courses at the opposite end of the country are being televised this week with five races from Newbury backed up by three more from Newcastle. Both courses feature top class 2m hurdles…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 20th November– Seymour Biz
My two favourite courses, Ascot and Haydock, are holding jump racing this Saturday and they are both being covered by ITV so I am really looking forward to the weekend’s racing. There are…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 13th November– Seymour Biz
Cheltenham takes centre stage again this week with four televised races and these are backed up by two Listed races on the all-weather from Lingfield. But I must admit that I and several…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 6th November– Seymour Biz
It’s the last hurrah for the flat season, and the television cameras are at Doncaster for the meeting where they cover three races. The feature contest is the November Handicap where it may…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 30th October– Seymour Biz
Two fine cards to look forward to this Saturday as the jumps season really gets going. The television cameras are at Ascot and Wetherby with nine races in all being covered. There is also…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 23rd October– Seymour Biz
We are really being spoilt this Saturday on ITV, with no fewer than ten races being televised. Cheltenham kicks off the jumps season on terrestrial television, and they are covering five…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 16th October– Seymour Biz
ITV are concentrating solely on the big meeting, British Champions Day, at Ascot as the flat season draws to a close. And although Doncaster has a couple of big meetings to come later this…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 9th October– Seymour Biz
Just the two flat meetings being televised this week from Newmarket and York with six races being covered but I find it disappointing the afternoon schedule is unable to fit in any of the…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 2nd October– Seymour Biz
This weekend all eyes are across the Channel as Longchamps stages its biggest and most luxurious meeting of the year climaxing in the Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday. This looks to be…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 25th September– Seymour Biz
It is the third and final day of the Autumn Cambridgeshire Meeting at Newmarket and ITV are concentrating mainly on this on Saturday with coverage of four races. This meeting principally…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 18th September– Seymour Biz
It is Ayr’s big meeting of the season with three great day’s racing culminating in the Gold Cup on Saturday and ITV are there to cover no fewer than five races. Besides the Gold Cup itself,…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips- 11th September– Seymour Biz
This week we have the last of this season’s Classics with St Leger being the main feature on a card that tops off this year’s Doncaster Race Week. ITV are covering three races from Town…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –4th September– Seymour Biz
We have a fabulous betting weekend to look forward to on ITV with three great meetings being televised on Saturday. All told eight races are being covered with two from Ascot, two from…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –28th August– Seymour Biz
ITV are covering seven races from three meetings this Saturday. The prominent one is Goodwood from where four races are being covered. Three of these are Group races, including the Group 2…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –21st August– Seymour Biz
It’s the final day of York’s wonderful Ebor meeting with the great spectacle of the Ebor Handicap itself and my thoughts on that are below. ITV are covering just four races from the…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –14th August– Seymour Biz
ITV are covering three meetings and eight races this week in the run-up to the big Ebor Meeting which starts at York on Wednesday so don’t expect to see trainers sending out their best…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –7th August– Seymour Biz
The Shergar Cup is definitely not my stand out favourite Saturday of the flat racing calendar. However, there does seem to be a horse with an excellent chance in the Dubai Duty Free Mile…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –31st July– Seymour Biz
It’s the final day of Glorious Goodwood and that means the Stewards Cup so the Sussex Downs will reverberate with the sound of huge fields for the handicaps on Saturday. ITV Racing are…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –24th July– Seymour Biz
Televisions are covering two meetings and seven races this week, three from York and four from Ascot. The latter include King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, which has cut up rather…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –17th July– Seymour Biz
There are two meetings being televised this Saturday- there’s a fine flat card at Newbury and a jumps meeting at Market Rasen. Now, I have to say I am not a great fan of summer jumping but…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –10th July– Seymour Biz
The racing press is calling this weekend’s meetings Super Saturday and it’s not difficult to see why. ITV is televising three cracking meetings with arguably some of the most competitive…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –3rd July– Seymour Biz
Two fine meetings to look forward to this week with some exciting racing on offer from Haydock Park and Sandown Park. There are three races being televised from the Merseyside course,…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –26th June– Seymour Biz
A somewhat rather quieter weekend after all the excitement of Royal Ascot with racing being televised from three meetings on Saturday. The highlight for me is the card at Newcastle which…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –19th June– Seymour Biz
Saturday brings us the final day of this year’s Royal Ascot and we have a great day’s racing in prospect. The ITV cameras are of course concentrating on the action from the Berkshire course…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –12th June– Seymour Biz
The television cameras are all over the country this Saturday to try and find some decent racing as the industry gears up for Royal Ascot next week. Although ITV are covering four races…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –5th June– Seymour Biz
ITV are televising just the one meeting this Saturday, the Derby meeting from Epsom. So in a programme lasting three and a half hours, they are managing to squeeze in just five races so…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –29th May– Seymour Biz
The North Of England has pride of place this Saturday on ITV with three meetings from that area being televised. The main meeting is Haydock Park from where four races are being shown.…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –22nd May– Seymour Biz
I know we have the Derby and Oaks to come in early June, then Royal Ascot later in the month but we have two Classics behind us and also most of the important, the so-called, “Classic…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –15th May– Seymour Biz
ITV have their cameras at what I consider the two most conservative tracks in Britain, Newmarket (HQ) and Newbury, both of which are providing some great racing. From Newmarket, they are…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –8th May– Seymour Biz
It is quite difficult to find much value in this Saturday’s fields. ITV are covering four races from Lingfield which includes two Classic Trials one for the Oaks and one for the Derby but…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –01st May– Seymour Biz
Saturday sees the first Classic of the season, the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, and it looks to be one of the most open renewals of this great race for many years. Currently the…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –24th April– Seymour Biz
It’s the final day of the jumps season, but don’t worry too much as the new season starts next week! So the last hurrah is the Sandown meeting and ITV are showing four races from the Esther…
Read moreSunday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –18th April– Seymour Biz
ITV are providing us with a mixture of codes this Sunday as they produce the postponed meetings that should have been shown on Saturday but have been moved forward 24 hours due to Prince…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –10th April– Seymour Biz
Although we have the Scottish Grand National at Ayr and the Bet365 Chase to come on subsequent Saturdays, this weekend is regarded as the final fixture of the jumps season with the Aintree…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –3rd April– Seymour Biz
We are in the betwixt and between period as the jump season has not quite finished and the flat season has just started so the television cameras are showing a bit of each. It is not the…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –27th March– Seymour Biz
The Flat gets off to a flying start this week with the Lincoln meeting from Doncaster and ITV are covering four races from Town Moor. The channel has a bit of everything this week. Besides…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips –20th March– Seymour Biz
This Saturday, as we get over the wonderful racing that has been going on during this week at Prestbury Park, normal service is being resumed. The ITV cameras are covering seven races,…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 13th March– Seymour Biz
As to be expected, it’s a very quiet weekend on ITV prior to the Cheltenham Festival, which starts on Tuesday. The television channel has scheduled four National Hunt races from Sandown and…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 6th March– Seymour Biz
We have plenty to get our teeth into this weekend as Cheltenham looms ever nearer with ITV covering three meetings and nine races. We have three races from Doncaster, including the…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 27th February– Seymour Biz
After the great weekend of racing last week where we had several pointers for Cheltenham over the two days, it’s much more mediocre fare this Saturday. ITV4 are covering three meetings and…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 20th February– Seymour Biz
The ITV is very busy this weekend after last Saturday’s washout with coverage from three meetings. The main meeting this Saturday is Ascot with two fine chases- the Reynoldstown where Full…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 13th February– Seymour Biz
It is with a heavy heart that I produce this write-up for this Saturday’s racing at Newbury and Warwick as both meetings look very unlikely to go ahead due to the ice and snow currently…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 6th February– Seymour Biz
It’s going to be very busy this Saturday on ITV with no fewer than four meetings being televised. The presenters will be flitting up and down the country with racing from Musselburgh,…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 30th January– Seymour Biz
Two meetings on TV this Saturday with four races each from Cheltenham and Doncaster. The Town Moor card features a novice’s chase with the talented Shishkin as part of the lineup. Last…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 23rd January– Seymour Biz
Three meetings to look forward to this Saturday, hopefully, with four televised races from Ascot, three from Haydock and one from Taunton. I say hopefully because Haydock is due to have an…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 16th January– Seymour Biz
It’s what can only be described as a thin weekend on the racing front with televised races from Market Rasen and Warwick. The Lincolnshire course is an unusual one to have the cameras in…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 9th January– Seymour Biz
A massive offering by ITV Racing this Saturday with no fewer than 10 races from 3 courses on offer, or are they covering all bases in case ice and snow dictate that some meetings are called…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 2nd January– Seymour Biz
A prosperous New Year to everyone except the auld enemy, the bookies, of course. The first Saturday of 2021 sees the television cameras journey north to Scotland for the post-Hogmanay…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 26th December– Seymour Biz
Saturday is Boxing Day and that means Kempton Park and the King George, it’s not the greatest punting day on the calendar but there are certainly some classy horses on view. The television…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 19th December– Seymour Biz
We have television coverage from opposite sides of the country this Saturday with racing from the south-east and north-west of England. Ascot has a great card with the Long Walk Hurdle…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 12th December– Seymour Biz
This week we are back at Cheltenham for their final meeting of the year dubbed The International Festival where the going is currently rated as good to soft. I hope it stays like that…
Read moreSaturday Horse Racing Preview & Tips – 5th December– Seymour Biz
Wonderful to see customers back at racecourses this week, I won’t say crowds because that is not quite what we have got but it’s a start. We have another great Saturday of racing to look…
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