Armchair sports fans are in for a treat this weekend and I am not just talking about England’s appearance in the final of Euro 2024 or the Wimbledon finals. Racing enthusiasts can look forward to watching 11 races on ITV tomorrow afternoon spread over just 170 minutes.
This is so-called ‘Super Saturday’ when there is almost endless live action from three big meetings: Newmarket, York and Ascot. It’s not all about quantity either because there is quality too: Newmarket stages the Group 1 My Pension Expert July Cup (4.35 p.m.) and there are plenty of other high-class races, handicaps and non-handicaps alike, on all three cards.
The July Cup, over six furlongs, is often the race in which the top three-year-old sprinters in the country clash with their older rivals for the first time: because of their youth, the younger generation have a weight-for-age allowance. Kevin Ryan’s Inisherin, an improving three-year-old and the winner of the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, looks to be the right favourite but odds of around 5-2 make zero appeal.
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