Nunthorpe Stakes a big sprint betting event
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12 August 2007 /
The Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes, run at York's Ebor meeting, is one of the main sprint events of the season and normally a serious betting heat where substantial bets have historically been very much the order of the day.
Reverence ploughed through the mud to justify heavy betting support to score last year for Eric Alston and added his name to an illustrious roll of honour, and the odds are that this year's winner will similarly be an already established high class Group 1 performer.
Aidan O'Brien has won the race twice in the last eight years with Mozart and Stravinsky, both ridden by Michael Kinane, but otherwise there are no strong jockey or trainer indicators to guide punters to winning bets.
The fairer sex have a decent record however from only a handful of runners with such as Lochsong, Lochangel, Lyric Fantasy and most recently La Cucuracha (2005) all having landed the spoils and defied the odds against them.