{"id":699647,"date":"2026-01-16T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:12:13","slug":"itv-racing-tips-saturday-17th-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699647\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Racing Tips – Saturday 17th January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Mullington casts his expert eye over the televised races at Ascot and Haydock on ITV this Saturday.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

ITV\u00a0are\u00a0set to cover four live races\u00a0from Ascot on Saturday, with their big race being the\u00a0Grade 1 Clarence House Chase. Prior to that they will show\u00a0the Grade 2 Warfield Mares\u2019 Hurdle, the \u00a3100k Handicap Chase and the Holloway\u2019s Handicap Hurdle.\n<\/p>\n

Also\u00a0sharing the bill\u00a0on Saturday will be three races from Haydock on their Peter Marsh Chase Day. The Grade 2 Rossington Main Novices\u2019 Hurdle will be followed by the\u00a0feature\u00a0event \u2013 the\u00a0Peter Marsh Chase, then\u00a0a 3m\u00bdf handicap hurdle.\n<\/p>\n

1.25 Haydock \u2013 2m\u00a0Rossington Main Novices\u2019 Hurdle (Grade 2)\u00a0(4yo+)<\/b><\/p>\n

Old Park Star and\u00a0HURRICANE PAT (NAP)<\/b>\u00a0are\u00a0very hard\u00a0to split\u00a0in this Grade 2, but I have been more impressed by the\u00a0nature of the victories\u00a0from\u00a0the later named\u00a0to make him the\u00a0nap.\n<\/p>\n

Noel Fehily\u2019s syndicated horse won the Listed\u00a0Claremont Novices\u2019 Hurdle\u00a0at Sandown with consummate ease\u00a0and can follow up on that\u00a0effort.\n<\/p>\n

1.40\u00a0Ascot \u2013 2m\u00a0Warfield Mares\u2019 Hurdle (Grade 2) (4yo+)<\/b><\/p>\n

Jamie Snowden<\/a> and Gavin Sheehan are a formidable team and their runner\u00a0LA COQUIERE\u00a0<\/b>can bring up her hat-trick in this mares\u2019 hurdle.\n<\/p>\n

She won a Listed event over the same trip by\u00a03\u00bd\u00a0lengths in November\u00a0and is a horse\u00a0who is rising through\u00a0the ranks quickly.\n<\/p>\n

2.00 Haydock \u2013\u00a03m1\u00bdf Peter Marsh Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap)\u00a0(5yo+)<\/b><\/p>\n

Joel Parkinson has really been instrumental\u00a0in firing up the fortunes of the yard since joining his\u00a0Grandmother\u00a0on the\u00a0training\u00a0licence\u00a0and\u00a0KONFUSION\u00a0<\/b>can\u00a0take\u00a0another big race scalp\u00a0this weekend.\n<\/p>\n

Winner of the\u00a0William Hill Rowland Meyrick\u00a0Chase and the Rehearsal Chase already this season, this staying event is well within his\u00a0scope\u00a0and he will be a popular choice in our\u00a0horse racing betting<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

2.20 Ascot \u2013\u00a02m5f Handicap Chase (Class 2) (5yo+)<\/b><\/p>\n

HITMAN\u00a0<\/b>is enjoying a renaissance in form this season and I see no\u00a0reason why\u00a0he\u00a0shouldn\u2019t\u00a0be a major player\u00a0in this 2m5f affair, even off top weight.\n<\/p>\n

This season\u2019s\u00a0Old Roan<\/a>\u00a0winner\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0live with\u00a0Djelo\u00a0in the Peterborough Chase<\/a>, but\u00a0this race is a\u00a0wide open\u00a0affair.\n<\/p>\n

2.35 Haydock\u00a0\u2013\u00a03m\u00bdf Handicap Hurdle (4yo+ 0-140)<\/b><\/p>\n

Back in 2024\u00a0KYNTARA<\/b>\u00a0ran a blinder\u00a0to finish runner-up in the Pertemps Final at Cheltenham.\n<\/p>\n

No victories have been forthcoming since,\u00a0but\u00a0the ten-year-old is still running to a decent level as he did at Cheltenham in December. He can be an each-way\u00a0candidate today for sure.\n<\/p>\n

2.53 Ascot \u2013\u00a02m3\u00bdf Handicap Hurdle (Class 2) (4yo+)<\/b><\/p>\n

Harry Fry\u2019s old stalwart\u00a0METIER<\/b>\u00a0showed enough last time to make him\u00a0an each-way interest this afternoon.\n<\/p>\n

The former Chester Cup and November Handicap winner\u00a0can hopefully follow up on his\u00a0decent fourth behind Go Dante at Sandown.\n<\/p>\n

3.30 Ascot \u2013\u00a02m1f Clarence House Chase (Grade 1) (5yo+)<\/b><\/p>\n

IL ETAIT TEMPS<\/b>\u00a0can get the better of\u00a0Jonbon\u00a0once more\u00a0in the Clarence House\u00a0Chase and is likely to go off at short odds\u00a0in our\u00a0sports betting<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0relatively easy\u00a0work for him in the Tingle\u00a0Creek\u00a0and\u00a0it will only be errors that can stop him\u00a0beating the Henderson-trained horse around Ascot.\n<\/p>\n

*Odds subject to change \u2013 prices accurate at the time of writing*\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Mullington casts his expert eye over the televised races at Ascot and Haydock on ITV this Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[288,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-699647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-horse-racing","9":"tag-racing","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115904247213019655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}