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The week after the Festival can often feel like an anticlimax, but whilst we can’t promise you Cheltenham scale thrills, the next seven days feature some excellent betting opportunities, including the official beginning of the turf flat season. Andrew Hughes brings us the highlights.

Dave Farrar picks the best of this weekend’s bets in Serie A

Late goals cause pain for Wolves and Hull but bring big rewards for in-running punters

Late goals cause pain for Wolves and Hull but bring big rewards for in-running punters

Having studied the three British jumps cards, Timeform’s Jimmy Cooper has found two he wants to be with and one he wants to be against…

Having studied the three British jumps cards, Timeform’s Jimmy Cooper has found two he wants to be with and one he wants to be against…

After crashing our of the Champions League in midweek, Richard Walker is backing Chelsea to emerge triumphant from this all-important Premier League clash

Matthew Walton muses on the this week’s Champions League draw which favoured some and left others with very tough tasks to progress

A Festival which produced a succession of unexpected results and at which plenty of the star names underperformed had one last trick up its sleeve in the eclipse of Kauto Star, the best chaser in more than forty years, whose bid for a third Gold Cup ended on the floor, but that failed to stop this being a race of rare quality, a tremendous duel between two top-notch horses resulting in one of the best-ever performances in this great race, the first two drawing a long way clear after three out. The early pace wasn’t so strong as anticipated but it had picked up by halfway and ensured this was a proper test of stamina, a test worthy of the Blue Riband of steeplechasing.

Ed Nicholson takes a look at Newcastle’s BAGS card and finds a couple of dogs worth following this afternoon.