Yorkshire Oaks Betting Tips, Winners & History

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The next renewal of this race has not been scheduled yet. We will update this once the schedule has been released for next season. The race info, trends and tips shown below will be updated for the next renewal once the final declarations have been made.

Yorkshire Oaks Betting Tips

Note: The following tips are from 2020. Tips for the next renewal will be added once the final declarations have been made.

Open to fillies and mares aged three and older, this event regularly represents one of the season’s biggest clashes of the generations for the female performers over the 1m4f trip. The three year olds have held the edge of late, with five wins in the past six years, and look likely to improve that record still further in 2020. Manuela De Vega is the only older runner in this year’s field and the red-hot favourite is a member of the Classic generation – indeed being a dual Classic winner.

Sir Michael Stoute is out on his own in front as the most successful trainer in this race with nine previous wins. However, Stoute doesn’t hold an entry this year, leaving John Gosden and Aidan O’Brien as the most successful trainers on show, with four wins apiece. Gosden sends Franconia and Frankly Darling into battle this time around, whilst O’Brien will rely on the much-fancied favourite, Love.

The market leaders have a solid 50% strike-rate in this race over the past decade. Two of those victories were registered by Enable at prohibitive odds of 1/4, but supporters of the jolly would still have registered a level stakes profit of +£2.00 over this period.

Love – 2/5

Way out in front at the head of the betting for this year’s renewal is the Aidan O’Brien-trained three year old, Love. Another result of the ultra-reliable Ballydoyle/Galileo production line, this Michael Tabor-owned filly has been just about the standout star of the season to date, and heads here ahead of a possible tussle with the mighty Enable in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

A full sister to the 100+ rated performers Peach Tree and Flattering, this good-looking chestnut showed plenty of class last season, notably when landing the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh, without really suggesting she was a superstar in the making.

Having rounded off her juvenile campaign with defeat in the Fillies Mile at Newmarket, she looked to have a little bit of work to do when making her seasonal reappearance in the 1000 Guineas. However, it became clear a long way from home that she had trained on incredibly well, and she duly loomed up on the outside before putting the race to bed in decisive fashion.

If that effort was impressive, what followed in her next outing in the Oaks at Epsom wasn’t far off being sensational. With Ryan Moore once again in the saddle, Love turned the second fillies’ Classic of the season into a procession, trouncing stablemate Ennistymon, and the highly-regarded Frankly Darling by a resounding nine lengths. There was a touch of brilliance about that performance as she found an extra gear or two to leave her rivals trailing and if she can repeat it here, we fancy she will impossible to stop.

Franconia – 7/1

Of the others, Jessica Harrington’s One Voice seems likely to be suited by this step up in trip, but doesn’t look to have as much room for improvement as a couple of the others, whilst there wouldn’t appear to be any good reason to suggest that Frankly Darling should reverse that 9¾l beating in the Oaks. As such, the most likely fly in the ointment may be the second of the Gosden runners, Franconia.

Going in the famous Khaled Abdullah silks, this daughter of Frankel was raced just the once at two – going down by a neck at Chelmsford – but must have shown plenty over the winter as she was pitched straight into Listed company on her seasonal comeback at Newbury in June. That step up in class proved to be well within her compass as she did the job very nicely - powering home from a field of promising rivals to score by an eased down 3¾l at the line.

This one also gets a tick in the course form box, with her most recent outing having come over this track in another 1m2½f Listed event in July. She wasn’t quite so impressive that day, in only slowly managing to wear down the useful Gold Wand to score by ¾l, but did at least manage to keep her winning run going.

On the plus side, she travelled better the further they went that day, which augurs well for this step up in distance. No doubt headed in the right direction, and in excellent hands, she will nevertheless need another significant jolt of improvement if she is to give the favourite something to think about.