Weekend Betting Guide: Curragh, Haydock, Newmarket & Shergar Cup Preview with 18/1 E/W Play

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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🎧 Final Furlong Podcast – Weekend Betting Special: Phoenix Stakes, Shergar Cup & Big-Price Plays Emmet Kennedy is joined by Peter Michael, Andy Newton, and George Gorman for your ultimate preview of this weekend’s top racing action across Curragh, Haydock, Newmarket, and a speed-round through the entire Shergar Cup card at Ascot. We’re firing on all cylinders after recent big-priced NAPs — and this episode is loaded with bold opinions, strategic bets, and market value. Aidan O’Brien’s Royal Ascot stars collide again in the Phoenix Stakes: Which one is overpriced? 18/1 each-way standout bet of the weekend — Emmet and Andy are both on. Peter Michael’s 11/2 NAP he says is funding his holiday. George’s 7/2 NAP and 6/1 NB with bullish confidence. Lucky 63 from Emmet with odds ranging from 18/1 to 3/1. Shergar Cup speed preview: every race broken down fast, form-first, and betting-focused. This is elite, no-fluff analysis built on proven patterns, market intelligence, and racing form — tailored for punters, fans, and betting enthusiasts alike. 🧠 Form-first. Value-driven. No hype — just strong bets. 🔎 Weekend Racing Tips 2:25 Haydock Irish Stallion Farms EBF Dick Hern Stakes (Listed Race) 3:00 Haydock Betfred Rose Of Lancaster Stakes (Group 3) 3:25 Curragh FBD Hotels And Resorts Phoenix Sprint Stakes (Group 3) 3:40 Newmarket Newsells Park Stud Sweet Solera Stakes (Group 3) 4:00 Curragh Keeneland Phoenix Stakes (Group 1) 1:35 Ascot Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Dash (Handicap) 2:10 Ascot Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Stayers (Handicap) 2:45 Ascot Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Challenge (Handicap) 3:20 Ascot Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Sprint (Handicap) 3:55 Ascot Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Classic (Handicap) 4:30 Ascot Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Mile (Handicap) Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.proformracing.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: radioemmet@gmail.com In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Never miss an episode of the Final Furlong podcast.
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0:09.4	And now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy.
0:12.2	Welcome to the weekend preview on the Final Furlong podcast, the Shurgar Cup special.
0:16.7	We're going to park that till the very end of the show.
0:19.5	We'll get the expert opinion of the lads for every Shurrigar Cup race at the very end.
0:23.1	But we're going to first of all start with Haydock. Our first race of the afternoon is 2.25 there. It's the Irish Stallion Farms, EBF Dick Hearn Stakes. It's a listed race. Really intriguing running this year. Roger Verion has won it twice in the last 10 years. He saddles protest, one of two for Chevaly Park.
0:36.3	Course winner, Sunfall, is their other runner.
0:38.7	She's having her second start for David O'Mara,
0:40.4	whose horses are in better form than the last 10 years. He saddles protest, one of two for Cheveley Park. Of course, winner, Sunfall is their
0:38.0	other runner. She's having her second start for David O'Mara, whose horses are in better
0:41.2	form than when she made her debut for the art. She's eligible to improve, second start-hop a layoff, second run for the stable. She gets a first-time tongue-tight. Nice draw and stall one, She might be able to control the race in the front end.
0:51.6	I will take her at 12 to 1.
0:53.1	George Gorman, follow a 12 to 1 tip for the first race.
0:55.7	I'm not sure I can follow a 12 to 1 tip there on the first
0:59.0	race. But I did land on something, you know, like not right at the top of the market. Anyway,
1:05.7	I've landed on sweet Francaise here. The least experience in the field with just three runs. And yet she's rated
1:12.5	equal of the other three-year-olds here despite that lack of experience. She's weighted extremely
1:17.6	competitively with the older horses as well. She won't have made last September. I wasn't seen
1:22.9	again until May this year. She carried a penalty to give a one to four-and-half length beating.
1:29.0	I think she was giving that horse three pound, giving the rest of the field six pounds.
1:33.3	On her first attempt at the listed company, she just pulled a bit too hard,
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