Zavateri can offer Grande value to World Pool punters

Saturday 11 October 2025 11:35

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WORLD Pool runs for the first five races on the card from Newmarket today, the feature being the Group One Dewhurst Stakes (3pm).

It’s a seeing race Zavateri and Gstaad are at loggerheads once again, after Gstaad narrowly won an argument in the National Stakes at the Curragh last month.

The two-year-old son of Eve Johnson Houghton showed real grit there in a driving finish to take his career record to four wins from four starts.

Gstaad will be a big threat once again and is set for a tougher ride in the dry, but I can see its old rival coming back on top.

The presence of Gstaad as well as Godolphin’s Distant Storm as market leaders means Zavateri may be flying under the radar once again.

That’s what we look for when betting with the World Pool (via Tote.co.uk for punters in the UK & Ireland) as international punters tend to focus on the big names, and as a result horses from lesser known fields are often under-bet and offer value.

Therefore, I will side with Zavateri in the Win and Place in World Pool markets, in the hope that he can maintain his unbeaten record.

Cesarewitch (15.40) is one of the historic hurdles of the Flat season, running two miles and two miles in the Rowley Mile.

Horses trained in Ireland, and often those from longer distances better associated with jumpers, have an outstanding record in these extreme endurance contests.

I think we could see another Irish winner in form Honorable HUBERTwho was an impressive winner of the Cesarewitch Trials on this course and distance a few weeks ago.

Under penalty for that success, he recorded an 83, a pound lower than his eighth-place finish in this race last year.

The ground at Newmarket is very fast for the time of year and is currently described as good firm ground, which should suit seven-year-old Charles Byrnes better than the soft ground he encountered in last year’s race.

With three-time Cesarewitch winner Silvestre de Sousa having a high-profile jockey booking, he’s the one I’d pick in the Win and Place World Pool market.

World Pool Quinella offers the chance of big profits from a small outlay if we can predict the first two finishers, in any order, so along with Reverend Hubert, I’ll throw out Hughie Morrision Caprelo into the mixture.

This is a horse that has improved significantly with the application of blinders and he can still excel with the help.

Finally, it is also worth adding the winners of last year’s competition, GREAT ALPHONSEinto the Quinella equation.

While the weight Tony Martin faces may be higher in weight class this year, he warmed up with an eye-catching effort in fifth at York last month, and that should keep him in good stead for this.

POINTERS

Zavateri (Win and Place) 15.00 Newmarket

Reverend Hubert (Win and Place) 15.40 New Market

Pastor Hubert, Caprelo, Alphonse Le Grande

(Quinella) 15.40 Pasar Baru