Saturday's Best Bets The Curragh hosts a cracking nine-race card on Saturday afternoon and there’s Group 1 action in the form of the Irish 2,000 Guineas. The first Classic of the Irish season has attracted a top-class field this year where Field Of Gold will bid to gain compensation for a near miss in the British equivalent at Newmarket. We have picked out our three best bets from the Curragh card on Saturday including a value pick in the feature race. Saturday’s racing tips 3.40 Curragh - Cosmic Year 3.05 Curragh - Storm Boy 1.55 Curragh - Trustyourinstinct Midnite Betting Offer If you already have a Midnite account, check out more of the best betting sites and casino bonuses 3.40 Curragh - Cosmic Year Aidan O’Brien has surprisingly only won one of the last seven renewals of this contest and this looks like another renewal that could go to the away team with Juddmonte holding a particularly strong hand. Field Of Gold has been all the rage in the betting since his narrow miss in the British equivalent at Newmarket three weeks ago but there’s a suspicion that this speed-favouring track won’t play to his strengths and he may be worth taking on once again given that he’s odds on. The one to oppose him with could be his owner-mate COSMIC YEAR. This son of Kingman arrives with his unbeaten record intact and having made easy work of a Sandown novice on his sole juvenile outing, he won in similar style at Kempton on his return to action. A step up in grade was then called for and he made it three wins from three starts in impressive fashion on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course at the beginning of the month and he won going away that day, suggesting there could be much more to come over this extra furlong. Significantly, that form has been boosted twice since by the only two horses that have run subsequently with Diego Ventura landing the odds in a French Listed race and Symbol Of Honour also winning at that level at Newbury. The emphasis on speed at the Curragh could really play to his strengths given that he has a useful turn of foot and he looks like a value pick against Field Of Gold who may find things happening too quickly for him. 3.05 Curragh - Storm Boy In the preceding race, STORM BOY could take some stopping if he’s fully fit for his reappearance run here. He was picked up by Ballydoyle after winning Group races in Australia as a juvenile and in his three-year-old season. As we saw with Asfoora last season, the Australian sprinters have a class edge over their European counterparts. The fitness of Storm Boy is the main concern but O’Brien often has these sorts ready to roll first time up and he looks like one of the better favourites of the day. 1.55 Curragh - Trustyourinstinct TRUSTYOURINSTINCT has to give weight to all of his rivals here but he looks capable of doing so in a Listed contest that lacks depth. He showed he was as good as ever when third behind two out-and-out Group 1 performers in the Group 2 Mooresbridge here last time out and expect him to relish a return to this distance.
