2018 Champions Stakes Betting Tips PT 1

We are almost at the penultimate weekend of the English class season with Champions day upon us this Saturday. With a stellar card full of fantastic-looking races many of us are turning our eyes towards the future contest of the day - the 2018 Champion Stakes,  which has a slightly smaller field than usual but there's still plenty of quality on offer.

At the outset, the bookmakers appear to be heavily favoring Cracksman with a price trading at odds on in the ante-post markets at the time of this writing. It's going to be interesting to see how has price trades during the build-up to the race and if he makes a particularly good pre-race appearance then you have to assume that he could go off even shorter.

One of the main complications for this race oftentimes is that the main contenders are more specialized running at either 12 furlongs or 8 furlongs as opposed to the 10 which is contested here.

There is very little doubt that the son of Frankel will struggle with the distance and he should be able to put together another great performance to cop off what has been impressive year.

Is main competition appears to be Crystal Ocean who comes into the race with a solid price in the low single-digits and it's probably worth keeping your eye on the exchange markets to get a better portrait of where the price maybe on the day of the race.