2015 Irish Derby Betting Tips PT 1

We are set for the 150th running of the Irish Derby at the Curragh and this year’s iteration of the race has a bit of a one-sided look to it as the punters and the bookmakers all seem to be very enthusiastic about the likelihood of chances for young Jack Hobbs. 

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The Godolphin entry has seen his ante post price get backed all the way down to 8/11 on the heels of his two losing efforts against the talented Golden Horn. He has definitely gone out of his way to establish himself as a clear “best of the rest” in the 1m4f division for this year’s three-year-old crop. 

He’s always been beaten nearly three lengths when he’s up against Golden Horn but you have to like his ability to stay on and get the better of these talented fields that he’s running in. Finishing up second in the Dante Stakes and second in the Epsom Derby is nothing to sneeze at and the absence of Golden Horn here makes this one seem even more emphatic for the Minster Stud-bred brown colt. 

One of the less encouraging things we saw from him this year though was in the run-in for the Epsom Derby when he showed a tendency to hang when things got down to the crucial moments. You don’t see much of that on his other comment lines so you have to wonder whether it was a one-time thing and the result of the horse knowing that he genuinely wasn’t going to win. 

It will be a Curragh debut for the Godolphin charge, who is trained by John Gosden, and you can expect him to deploy more of a stalking trip in this one than the mid-pack charge we saw him attempt to deploy at Epsom.