Newmarket cheat sheet: the key angles for punters looking to make it pay on the July course this week
Our betting editor with his weekly column getting between the lines of the form book
The only people who reliably make a distinction between Newmarket's two tracks, the Rowley Mile and the July course, are sub-editors.
Both tracks have a downhill run inside the last few furlongs, which then kicks up to a stiff finish. Both the Racing Post and Timeform style guides say that, of these two natural features, only the one on the Rowley Mile gets treated to a proper noun. So the Rowley Mile has the Dip, while the July course merely has a dip.
This is emblematic of how the two tracks are viewed. The July course hosts more races than the Rowley Mile, and as many Group 1s as Sandown and Newbury combined. But because it lacks that mythos you get from staging spring Classics or autumn championship races, it is destined to be Flat racing's Jamie Murray.
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Published on inKeith Melrose
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