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The latest news from Northern Monkey Punter.
End Of Season Sign Up Offer / HUGE TREBLE LANDED!
8th August 2026
Please visit the NMP sign up page for details of an end-of-season offer I am running - membership until the 11th November 2026 for £65. Members who signed up this morning re-couped their membership fee instantly as we banged in a 199/1 treble across the cards at Ascot and Redcar on Tuco Salamanca (4/1), Welbury (9/1) and Red Spells Danger (3/1).
With the Ebor meeting just around the corner at York, Doncaster's St Leger Meeting, Champions Day at Ascot, the Cambridgeshire and Cesarewitch meetings at Newmarket and the Breeders' Cup in America, among other meetings yet to be run, we've plenty of top-class action to punt on before the season is out!
NMP 2026/27 football ante posts now up on site
3rd August 2026
Please visit the NMP 2026/27 football ante posts page to see my list of ante post bets for the forthcoming season. More bets will follow in the next week before the league season starts properly.
Best of luck to everyone for the new season!
ROYAL ASCOT ROUND-UP
23rd June 2026
We had a solid Royal Ascot this year with most of our picks giving a good account.
My nap of the the week was Sandal’s Song in the Palace of Holyroodhouse Stakes. We had a good bet at 14/1 and despite him going off 40/1 on account of his central draw he ran a screamer to finish second behind a fortunate winner who fared better on the stalls front but weighed in 5lb light and somehow kept the race!
We had a good bet on Binhareer in the Wokingham but he was never put in the race and had a troubled run, finishing just out of the frame, although our backup bet in the race, Double Rush (9/2) won, so we covered our stakes.
Other highlights for the week were Mission Central defying a drift (14/1 SP, 9/1 Adv) to win the King Charles III, Ombudsman (11/8) sluicing up in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ayobayyah getting up late in the Kensington Palace (10/3), and Scandinavia coming out on top in a thrilling tussle with Trawlerman in the Gold Cup.
Some of our placed horses also ran blinders in defeat - including Ruiva (20/1) who was third in the Queen Mary, More Thunder (9/2), who narrowly failed to land the Queen Anne, Gstaad (3/1) just coming up short behind Bow Echo in the St James’s Palace, then Goliath (rider lost irons) and Satono Reve (touched off in a photo) suffering narrow defeats on the Saturday in the Hardwicke and QEII Jubilee Stakes, respectively.
