Betfair Cup Betting 2011
The Betfair Cup is the showpiece race of the opening day of Glorious Goodwood. Trainers often hold back some of their best young sprint horses for this race as they battle it out over a short distance to get their Goodwood campaign off to a good start.
Betfair Cup betting 2011 has a strong favourite at this moment in time but trainers often toy with the idea of entering a horse or pulling one out of the race in the weeks leading up to the event. Either way this will be a high quality contest and is a good way to start the five day festival.
The Betfair Cup
The Betfair Cup is a Group Two contest which is the next tier down from Group One horse races. The race is held at Goodwood on the first day of every Goodwood Festival and is run over seven furlongs which rewards sprint horses as opposed to animals with a better stamina.
The race is open to three-year-old horses and above with many trainers throwing in some untested three-year-olds to see if they have what it takes to make the step up to Group One level.
It's also important to point out that the Betfair Cup is a relatively new race which only started in the year 2000. This makes the Horse Racing Betting market very interesting. Much of the modern history with this race is still up for grabs and the list of winning horses, jockeys and trainers could still be dominated by a single name.
The Betfair Cup Favourite
The Betfair Cup favourite at the moment is a horse called Finjaan. Finjaan is a five-year-old horse with plenty of experience and has tasted success in this race before. Finjaan has only raced 11 times in a short career but has placed in just below half of these races.
Finjaan is the Betfair Cup favourite because a lot of the runners that will start this race will start it with very little career history to go on. It is much safer to have a favourite with experience in this race as opposed to an untried three-year-old which could let down a trainer badly.
Betfair Cup Betting
There are two main ways to approach Betfair Cup betting in relation to Glorious Goodwood Betting 2011. Firstly, there is the safe option by looking at all of the horses that have a solid amount of career history to go on. These will be the safer bets because it will be easier to predict how these horses will run. The fact they may be a year or two older than a lot of the three-year-olds makes very little difference.
Secondly, Betfair Cup betting will also include a lot of three-year-olds that have been thrown into this race by trainers after a lot of practice. Any horse can look good on the practice track but the real defining moments come in races. Some new horses simply get put off by the occasion while some prosper and go on to have massive careers. This Betfair Cup betting option is more of a lottery.
In the years since the race started, there has not really been a trend of specifically aged winners. There has been no string of three-year-olds winning this race and no dominance of older horses either. This just means that punters need to do their homework and study the form of the confirmed runners in the build up to the race.