Andy Newton’s ITV Racing tips from Newmarket on Saturday: O’Brien on a July Cup ‘mission’

Check out Andy Newton’s ITV Newmarket Racing tips for this Saturday, July 11th-featuring his top three picks for every single race at HQ broadcast live on free-to-air TV.

The third and final day of the 2026 Newmarket July Festival wraps up with six more scheduled ITV Racing events.

The undisputed highlight is a blockbuster Group One July Cup, where we get the absolute treat of watching four recent Royal Ascot winners lock horns.

You can see Andy Newton’s Newmarket racing tips below as he gives you his 1-2-3 best bets for each LIVE race.

Andy Newton’s ITV Newmarket Racing Tips: Saturday 11th July 2026

• 13:40 Newmarket: AL WATHBA
• 14:15 Newmarket: SONG N DANCE (NAP)
• 14:52 Newmarket: EKLLEEM / TALES OF WISDOM
• 15:25 Newmarket: TWO TRIBES / THE FINAL RAVEN
• 16:00 Newmarket: AL HUDAIBA
• 16:35 Newmarket: MISSION CENTRAL

Newmarket Racing Tips: O’Brien On A July Cup Mission

13:40 Newmarket (July) – Rossdales British EBF Maiden Stakes (Class 3, 2yo, 7f, ITV4)

Haffner looks like he’ll put some serious substance behind the Abraham Lincoln form line.

He ran a brilliant second to his stablemate on debut at the Curragh (you can watch it below) and should thrive with the step up to 7f. For context, Abraham Lincoln lines up in the Group 2 Superlative Stakes later on this very card at 4 PM.

That said, Newmarket has always been a happy hunting ground for Charlie Appleby, who has taken four of the last ten renewals of this race.

With that in mind, it’s worth taking a chance on their debutant, AL WATHBA.

This Wootton Bassett colt commanded a hefty €900k price tag at the French sales and is sure to be fully wound up for this, especially given the yard boasts a lethal 38% strike rate with their juveniles here.

William Buick takes the ride.

This race has a habit of producing real quality-Field Of Gold took it in 2024, Distant Storm in 2025, and recent Eclipse winner Constitution Hill was once a runner-up here.

Whether Haffner or Al Wathba can scale those heights remains to be seen, but our pick certainly has the pedigree and reputation to give it a massive shake.

Of the rest, the Andrew Balding team has won two of the last ten, so their Juddmonte runner, Subscription, is well worth a market check.

🥇 AL WATHBA
🥈 HAFFNER
🥉 SUBSCRIPTION

14:15 Newmarket (July) – Newmarket Racecourses Fillies’ Handicap (Class 2, 3yo+, 0-100, 7f, ITV4)

William Knight’s yard took this prize 12 months ago and they’re back for a repeat bid with True Test, who put in a fine effort to finish sixth in the Sandringham last time out.

Buick hops in the saddle again-interestingly, he was on their winner last year too.

The incredibly consistent Shallow could also make a major splash; she’s starting to look seriously well-handicapped off a mark of 78 considering her last victory came off 82 right here on the July Course.

Machadadorp is also respected as she steps into handicap company on the back of two gutsy consecutive wins, most recently at Wetherby.

However, I’m siding with the slightly fresher SONG N DANCE to deliver for Tom Marquand.

This Sean Woods runner was last seen finishing a close second to Radiant Beauty at Ascot back in May, and that form has been firmly franked since.

The winner went on to land a Listed prize, the third-place finisher (Alobayyah) won next time out, and the fourth (Quamby) ran an absolute cracker to finish sixth in the Kensington Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

That Ascot run was over a mile, so dropping back to 7f after just failing to see out the trip looks like a tactical masterstroke. With the form looking rock solid, expect Song N Dance to hit the right notes.

🥇 SONG N DANCE
🥈 SHALLOW
🥉 TRUE TEST

Race replay:

A brilliant front-running ride!

James Doyle gets the fractions spot on aboard Radiant Beauty who keeps on responding to pressure to score in good style…@Ascot | @JPOwenRacing pic.twitter.com/1hPKrGT4Lv

— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) May 9, 2026

14:52 Newmarket (July) – Newmarket Handicap (Class 2, 3yo, 0-100, 1m, ITV4)

This is another contest where the Appleby and Godolphin metrics demand respect-the trainer has won four of the last eight runnings, while the “blue team” has landed five in that same span.

They saddle TALES OF WISDOM, who was last seen running a respectable race in the ultra-competitive Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot.

He completely missed the break that day and was compromised by a low draw on the far side, so you can easily put a line through that performance.

Before that, he won beautifully at HQ on the Rowley Mile; a repeat of that effort makes him a massive player in a race his connections love to win.

As for the dangers, Ryan Moore catching the eye on Roger Varian’s Wechaad (7th in the Britannia) is impossible to ignore.

We also have Moonfall, the actual winner of that Britannia Stakes, but he faces a much stiffer task up 7lbs in the weights.

Alfaraz is the solitary course-and-distance winner in the lineup and commands respect on that stat alone.

But my other main fancy is EKLLEEM, who looked highly impressive winning a Ripon novice stakes last time.

He makes his handicap debut here off a very fair mark of 87, and with only four career starts under his belt, there should be plenty of hidden upside.

He showed incredible bravery last time out, squeezing up the inside rail against his main market rival without missing a beat.

Tom Marquand rides for William Haggas.

🥇 EKLLEEM
🥈 TALES OF WISDOM
🥉 WECHAAD

15:25 Newmarket (July) – Betway Bunbury Cup (Heritage Handicap) (Class 2, 3yo+, 7f, ITV4)

Aalto won this grand old handicap in 2024 and ran a stellar second off a mark of 92 in 2025.

The fact that he turns up here rated just 87 makes him a massive threat at a venue he clearly adores.

He heads into Saturday off the back of a second-place finish to Dark Tornado here at HQ, and while that rival returns too, Aalto is now 4lbs better off.

Now, if the former Sir Michael Stoute inmate Nostrum wins this, we should probably all pack up and go home-but stranger things have happened, and this luxury horse has dropped from a peak rating of 114 down to a tantalizing 90.

Course winner Elarak and the incredibly honest Back In Black are both heavily noted too.

That said, I’m going to take a flyer on two runners at much bigger prices: TWO TRIBES and THE FINGAL RAVEN.

Two Tribes was last year’s Stewards’ Cup hero off an 8lb lower mark, but he proved he can handle higher ratings when winning at Meydan in January.

He finished 12th in the Wokingham last time, but he actually ran far better than the bare result suggests from a poor low draw, beaten just five lengths by Double Rush at the wire.

Oisin Murphy takes the mount, and he knows how to ride this July Course beautifully. The Fingal Raven is my other big-price Newmarket horse racing tips here.

The Jamie Osborne trainer finished 16th in the Buckingham Palace last time out, but that was his first competitive target in three months.

He followed an almost identical trajectory last season-fluffing his lines in the Britannia before bouncing back with a massive third-place finish at Sandown in July.

🥇 TWO TRIBES
🥈 THE FINGAL RAVEN
🥉 AALTO

16:00 Newmarket (July) – Superlative Stakes (Group 2) (Class 1, 2yo, 7f, ITV4)

Abraham Lincoln could easily be the next superstar talking horse to roll off the Ballydoyle production line.

He won handsomely on debut and the bookies are already sweating, quoting him at 20/1 for next season’s 2000 Guineas.

His Curragh runner-up, Haffner, goes in the 1:40 opening race, so it goes without saying that a big run there will firmly cement Lincoln’s credentials.

Aidan O’Brien used this exact race as a stepping stone for the brilliant City Of Troy in 2023, having also won it with Gustav Klimt in 2017.

Even so, this is a prize that Charlie Appleby completely dominates, having won seven of the last eleven renewals, including the last two ‘back-to-back’.

They run AL HUDAIBA, who brings a crucial edge in experience with three starts under his belt. Quite frankly, he’d be coming here unbeaten had he not jinked and unseated Tom Marquand at Yarmouth back in May.

He bounced back from that mishap beautifully to put away a highly regarded Richard Hannon colt in Down To You Kid last time out.

In short: Abraham Lincoln might be anything, but at the current prices and given the yard’s absurd record in this race, Al Hudaiba looks like the sensible value play.

The 450,000gns Amo Racing purchase, Pikachu, can round out the places.

🥇 AL HUDAIBA
🥈 ABRAHAM LINCOLN
🥉 PIKACHU

16:35 Newmarket (July) – Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai July Cup Stakes (Group 1) (Class 1, 3yo+, 6f, ITV4)

What a spectacular renewal of the July Cup.

The narrative completely revolves around four heavyweight Royal Ascot winners: Double Rush (Wokingham), Venetian Sun (Commonwealth Cup), Almeraq (Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee), and Mission Central (King Charles III Stakes).

Throw the high-class Japanese raider Satono Reve into the blender and you can genuinely make a rock-solid case for five of these.

Dissecting the elite, I suspect Double Rush might find this a bridge too far after only just holding on at Ascot.

At seven years old, Satono Reve has severe historical trends to overcome-the last seven-year-old to win this was back in 1938, with only one six-year-old scoring in that entire modern window (Les Arcs in 2006).

Commonwealth Cup Winner Unbeaten Over 6f

Venetian Sun is an absolute machine of a filly and sits a perfect 5-for-5 over six furlongs, but history is against her too; the last three-year-old filly to capture the July Cup was Habibti way back in 1983.

Almeraq boasts four wins from seven starts at this trip and has done remarkably well to bounce back to this level after a nasty fall at York last September.

Ultimately, I am delighted to stick with MISSION CENTRAL for the powerhouse duo of Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore.

He produced a devastating, blistering late turn of foot to get up in the nick of time over 5f in the King Charles III Stakes last time out, meaning the extra furlong on Saturday is a massive asset.

He is a perfect 3-for-3 when running over 6f, and three-year-olds have won five of the last eleven renewals.

AOB knows exactly what it takes to land this historic sprint, having landed the Group One prize five times before. Mission Central looks poised to be his next sprint king.

If you’re looking for an alternative away from the market leaders, last year’s agonizing neck-second, Big Mojo, is dangerous enough to completely outrun his double-digit odds.

🥇 MISSION CENTRAL
🥈 VENETIAN SUN
🥉 ALMERAQ