It feels like a proper betting Saturday coming up. The sun is finally out, we have the Scottish Grand National, big Classic clues while Premier League and EFL football continues at the business end of the season.
Look out for betting banana skins. For example, in the last 15 games only three teams have better record than Crystal Palace in the league. Taking 1/2 about Man City to beat them looks dangerous.
The Scottish Grand National will be great to watch and is fine for small bets but can’t be taken seriously from a punting angle. Willie Mullins is flooding this and other races with entrants in a bid to win the British champion trainer title. If he doesn’t know which of his horses is best, how can we?
Football Selections
Brighton
The Seagulls are 2/7 at home and look a perfectly safe bet to beat Leicester. The away side are truly terrible, worse right now than Southampton, while the home team are still going for Europe and are fully motivated.
West Brom
The Baggies are general 8/11 shots to beat Watford at home this Saturday. Looking at the remaining fixtures, West Brom are good value to reach the top six in the end and they can start that charge by beating the Hornets at the Hawthorns.
Luton Town
17/20 isn’t massive value, but there is not a great feeling surrounding Blackburn Rovers at the moment. They are sliding, the fans are complaining online, and now Luton can make home advantage count in this one.
Wycombe
4/7 is a little short or Wycombe at home to Stevenage, but they’re still the right play. They are only 3 points behind Wrexham at the moment and get still get automatic promotion. They’ve been low scoring of late, but they managed a good away win last time and can triumph again.
Racing Bets
Theformismighty (1.43 Ayr)
Dan Skelton’s runner is the complete outsider of the field, but he has a genuine chance. Underwhelming runs at Newbury and Sandown keep him big in the market, but his profile is otherwise progressive and at 20/1 he can’t be ignored.
Mountain Breeze (2.00 Newbury)
Charlie Appleby’s filly goes for the Dubai Duty Free, a 1000 Guineas trial. She has sprinted and stayed up to a mile, but goes over a nice, flat seven furlongs at Newbury. She’s up there with the best of these and has done it easily this year so far in Dubai.
Kabral Du Mathan (2.15 Ayr)
Paul Nicholls’ runner sits only behind a Willie Mullins horse in the market. Now that he’s back on better ground, he can continue his progression and is good value at around 4/1.
Chancellor (2.35 Newbury)
He looks like a proper three-year-old miler. He would be favourite for this if he’d done what was expected in his Group 2 last year, but he misbehaved at the start and has been taught a lesson now.
How to Use These Bets
There’s always the accumulator of course, the 8-fold coming to over 13,000/1.
You can also take these bets in any combo of singles, doubles and trebles, while the available full cover bet is the Goliath, which will cost you 247 times the unit stake.