In the 6.30 at Sedgefield on Thursday, Trafalgar Rock is 2-2 over hurdles and, at the time of writing, favourite at 2.02 on Betfair to complete a hat-trick. However, while the Mount Nelson gelding won easily enough on his debut at Uttoxeter in June, the form hasn’t worked out and he had to work much harder to beat 100/1 outsider Playingwithnumbers at Worcester five weeks ago. Once again,…

The Hungerford Stakes, run over 7 furlongs at Newbury, was upgraded to Group 2 status in 2006 and, in the last 10 years, has produced just two winning favourites, although seven winners in that period were returned at single-figure prices. This year’s renewal is competitive enough, with 14 runners set to line up on Saturday, but ante post favourite Home Of The Brave (9/4) looks to have an…

The top five in the Official World Golf Rankings are missing from the Travelers Championship, which gets underway at TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut on Thursday, but there was never any doubt that defending champion Bubba Watson would tee it up this week. Watson, 37, misses the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio to do so but, granted his impressive record in the Travelers, punters may…