Epsom Downs Summer season race tips
The Summer Season kicks off at Epsom Downs on Wednesday evening with a competitive six-race card for punters heading to the track.
Racing gets underway at 6.20pm with a seven-runner apprentice handicap before rounding off at 9.00pm as ten runners take on the class four handicap.
Read below to see the latest Horse racing betting and tips for Epsom’s Wednesday card
The opener (6.20) is an apprentice handicap over the one mile and two furlong trip with Giselles Defence arriving in the best form of the field, winning at Pontefract in May and getting back on track at Leicester 18 days ago after a poor ninth prior so should take the beating here. Of his rivals, Oj Lifestyle was a Newbury maiden winner in 2022 who hasn’t fired since but is dropping down into much calmer waters here.
Race two on the card (6.50) sees seven runners head to the stalls for the maiden stakes in class four for two-year-old’s and Sir Peter Fossick for trainer Charlie Johnston is taken to get off the mark on debut, a half-brother to several winners over the this seven-furlong trip so he makes plenty of appeal on paper.
Mr Wagyu is on a losing run but has a fine record at Epsom and is back for more in race three on Wednesday’s card (7.25), only slightly edged out on Derby Day so has to be considered back at his favoured track. Indian Creek won this race last year off a 2lb higher mark so is set to be amongst the top end as well in this six furlong class three handicap.
Trainer Ralph Beckett’s son of Galileo, Atlantic Convoy, looks ripe for improvement in handicap company and he is the selection in race four on the card (8.00) having taken a step in the right direction when seventh in a Sandown maiden last month and is up in trip here.
The penultimate race on Epsom’s card arrives at 8.30 with a one mile and four furlong handicap in class six. A competitive heat, Our Papa Smurf should be bang up there for trainer Gary Moore off the back of a win at Goodwood on June 14, going up in trip here by three furlongs. Of his rivals, Angel On High can give the Moore runner plenty to think about with two thirds and a second in his last three outings.
Finally, the card comes to a close with the ten-runner handicap in class four for three-year-old’s and upwards (9.00), with preference in the finale heading to Justcallmepete, who can cash in on his low turf mark – 10lb lower than when he races on the all-weather surface – to take the spoils in the card closer ahead of course and distance winner Marlay Park, who has won four times at Epsom in his career.
Epsom selections – Wednesday
6.20 – Giselles Defence
6.50 – Sir Peter Fossick
7.25 – Mr Wagyu
8.00 – Atlantic Convoy
8.30 – Our Papa Smurf
9.00 – Justcallmepete
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