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Epsom Handicap 2024 Betting Tips - Value with the grey
- The Epsom Handicap is a prestigious Group 1 race held during the Sydney Spring Carnival
- Past champions include Hartnell, Happy Clapper, and Winx
- Top betting tips: Berkshire Shadow (best bet), Ceolwulf (next best), and Kintyre (value bet)
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Can Ceolwulf land his first Group 1 in the Epsom Handicap? (Getty)
The Epsom Handicap is one of the most famous Group 1's run over the Sydney Spring Carnival, with this feature contested over the Randwick mile.
- 2024 Epsom Handicap Tips
- 2024 Epsom Handicap Field & Odds
With an outstanding honor roll which includes recent champions in Hartnell, Happy Clapper and Winx, this race also provides the winner with a ballot-free entry into the Queen Elizabeth Stakes the following autumn.
At $6 with Betr, Royal Patronage heads a competitive market for the 2024 Epsom Handicap.
2024 Epsom Handicap Tips
2024 Epsom Handicap Best Bet - Berkshire Shadow
In big handicap fields, there's generally value and at $20+ in the early markets, Berkshire Shadow is a big price, arriving to the Epsom Handicap third-up from a spell.
European imports can take a prep to acclimatize and that appears to be the case with Berkshire Shadow, who didn't figure in his first four starts for Ciaron Maher.
Off a very cold trial, the grey was a notable drifter first-up at Rosehill and with no intent via that return outing, he overcame trouble to finish off well over 1300m.
With a kinder run, Berkshire Shadow may have taken out the Cameron Handicap at Newcastle, where he stuck on bravely for third despite covering ground in that Group 3.
2024 Epsom Handicap Next Best Bet - Ceolwulf
He also wouldn't have looked out of place in The Metropolitan, but Joe Pride doesn't want to stretch Ceolwulf out to staying distances, with the gelding back to a mile here.
The son of Tavistock appears more effective in the 1600m-2000m range for now and that's despite a J-Mac pearler getting in the way of him winning the Australian Derby.
Ceolwulf was gelded ahead of this campaign and he bounced off an even fresh outing to salute second-up over 1500m before contesting the Kingston Town Stakes.
Four-year-old's profile well for the Epsom Handicap (15 winners since 2000) and with the right platform to be peaking fourth-up, he's clearly among the main chances.
2024 Epsom Handicap Value Bet - Kintyre
With no winning first-up form to his name, it was no surprise to see Kintyre in need of the gallop in the Tramway Stakes, especially given the hot tempo of that race.
The four-year-old then covered ground via a fourth-of-twelve finish second-up in the Bill Ritchie Handicap and that Group 3 is one of the main Epsom lead-up's.
A galloper who was thereabouts throughout most of his three-year-old season, Kintyre found winning form deep into his last prep with victories over 2000m and 1600m.
Not only will be approaching peak fitness for this Group 1, but the gelding also plummets in the weights to 50kg and he can settle close to the speed under Cejay Graham.
2024 Epsom Handicap Field & Odds
| No. | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | Odds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Oberon (IRE) | Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald | Nash Rawiller | 21 | 56.5kg | $16 |
| 2 | Royal Patronage (FR) | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Tim Clark | 17 | 56kg | $6 |
| 3 | Detonator Jack (NZ) | Ciaron Maher | Jason Collett | 16 | 56kg | $19 |
| 4 | Kovalica (NZ) | Chris Waller | James McDonald | 1 | 55.5kg | $7.50 |
| 5 | Rediener | Chris Waller | Joshua Parr | 12 | 55.5kg | $26 |
| 6 | Democracy Manifest | Chris Waller | Kerrin McEvoy | 10 | 55kg | $15 |
| 7 | Ceolwulf (NZ) | Joseph Pride | Chad Schofield | 14 | 54kg | $7 |
| 8 | Nugget (GB) | Ciaron Maher | Dylan Gibbons | 11 | 54kg | $21 |
| 9 | Tom Kitten | James Cummings | Tommy Berry | 19 | 54kg | $14 |
| 10 | Berkshire Shadow (GB) | Ciaron Maher | Ashley Morgan | 8 | 53kg | $23 |
| 11 | Loch Eagle | Kris Lees | Jay Ford | 18 | 52.5kg | $81 |
| 12 | Major Beel (NZ) | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Winona Costin | 9 | 51.5kg | $11 |
| 13 | Chrysaor | Chris Waller | Craig Williams | 5 | 51.5kg | $18 |
| 14 | Molly Bloom (NZ) | Chris Waller | Zac Lloyd (a) | 3 | 50.5kg | $67 |
| 15 | Arctic Glamour | Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou | Andrew Adkins | 6 | 50kg | $21 |
| 16 | Mchale | Chris Waller | Rachel King | 15 | 50kg | $23 |
| 17 | Ausbred Flirt | Brad Widdup | TBA | 2 | 50kg | $81 |
| 18 | Kintyre | Gary Portelli | Cejay Graham | 7 | 50kg | $23 |
| 19 | Firestorm (NZ) | Chris Waller | Mark Du Plessis | 13 | 50kg | $51 |
| 20 | Galeron (IRE) | Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald | Alysha Collett | 4 | 50kg | $91 |
| 21e. | Floating | Matthew Smith | Reece Jones | 20 | 50kg | $51 |
Odds courtesy of Betr & correct on 02/10/2024.
Verdict
Our tips for the 2024 Epsom Handicap are:
Berkshire Shadow
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$23.00 - 4 Units
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Ceolwulf
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$7.00 - 2 Units
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Kintyre
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$23.00 - 1 Unit
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