The two big handicaps tomorrow are the bet365 Bunbury Cup at Newmarket and the John Smith’s Cup at York. Both are early closing races in which the weights were framed by the official handicapper several weeks ago. This means several horses in both races are ‘well in’, in that if the handicapper was in a position to evaluate their most recent runs – after he set the weights – they would be carrying several pounds more tomorrow.
However, the most difficult issue to factor into which horses to tip today is undoubtedly the weather: both Newmarket and York are forecast to have large amounts of rain which could make the ground at both tracks ‘soft’ by tomorrow afternoon. But if there is much less rain than forecast, tipping horses that do not run well on soft ground would be a big mistake. The ideal is to have a well-handicapped horse that goes well on pretty much any surface.
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