In this post, we are bringing you our Saudi Cup prediction along with Saudi Cup tips and all the odds for the big race in Riyadh this Saturday.
Riyadh will stage the world’s richest race this Saturday and Japanese superstar Forever Young is all the rage to retain his title in the Saudi Cup 2026 odds.
Yoshito Yahagi’s five-year-old has already amassed more than £15million in prize money and will add another $10million to that tally if repeating last year’s heroics at King Abdulaziz Racecourse .
Forever Young’s brilliant battle with Hong Kong legend Romantic Warrior was one of the highlights of the 2025 racing calendar, with just a neck separating them at the line.
The son of Real Steel bookended his season with a historic Breeders’ Cup Classic success at Del Mar in November and is 8/11 to make a winning return to action here.
Yahagi , who also won the Saudi Cup with Panthalassa in 2023, said of his current ace: “The anti-clockwise track and the long home straight really suit him in Saudi Arabia.”
Who Is The Biggest Danger To Forever Young?
Betting Odds
2026 Saudi Cup Odds
Horse | Odds | Chance |
|---|---|---|
(3) Forever Young | 8/11 | 57.9% |
(8) Nysos | 3/1 | 25% |
(2) Bishops Bay | 11/1 | 8.3% |
(7) Nevada Beach | 11/1 | 8.3% |
(5) Luxor Cafe | 16/1 | 5.9% |
(11) Sunrise Zipangu | 20/1 | 4.8% |
(13) Tumbarumba | 20/1 | 4.8% |
(1) Banishing | 33/1 | 2.9% |
(9) Rattle N Roll | 33/1 | 2.9% |
(14) Ameerat Alzamaan | 33/1 | 2.9% |
(6) Mhally | 66/1 | 1.5% |
(10) Star of Wonder | 66/1 | 1.5% |
(12) Thundersquall | 66/1 | 1.5% |
(4) Haqeet | 100/1 | 1% |
The odds-on favourite for the 2026 Saudi Cup is Forever Young at 8/11 in the betting.
Nysos is the second favourite in the betting at odds of 3/1. Then the market looks wide open with Bishops Bay and Nevada Beach both rated as 11/1 chances with 16/1 bar.
Saudi Cup Betting Tips
Saudi Cup Tips: Baffert Determined To End Run Of Near-Misses
American training great Bob Baffert has admitted winning this contest for the first time is definitely on his bucket list and he sends over 7/2 second favourite Nysos and 10/1 chance Nevada Beach.
Having gone close on several occasions, Baffert commented: “We are always ahead at the 100 metres mark and then I just think ‘uh-oh, this is not good, we’ve still got 100 metres to go’. We’ve come agonisingly close.”
Nysos has won his last four races across the Atlantic, including a narrow victory when odds-on for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.
The Nyquist colt only just got the better of stablemate Nevada Beach in a dramatic finish to Santa Anita’s Laffit Pincay Jr Stakes over the Christmas period but always seems to know where the wire is.
Bishops Bay (10/1) is another strong challenger from America who has landed four graded-class victories for Brad Cox , but Nysos is rated the biggest danger to Forever Young bagging a Saudi Cup double.
Neom Turf Preview
Neom Turf Cup & Supporting Races Preview
There is also Group One action on grass at Riyadh in the Neom Turf Cup , with the Yahagi-trained globetrotter Shin Emperor returning as the defending champion.
Joseph O’Brien’s Galen will represent Ireland, while a strong British raiding party features Phantom Flight for George Scott , Karl Burke’s Royal Champion , Silawi for Newmarket-based handler Hamad Al Jehani and the George Boughey-trained Survie .
The last-named mare had some top-class form in France before changing hands for 1.9million guineas in December and enjoyed a smooth warm-up success at Lingfield on her first start for new connections.
“She has done well,” said Boughey . “She came out of the race good, she didn't do a huge amount last week but has shipped over in great shape.”
French ace Lazzat looks a formidable foe in the 1351 Turf Sprint but Mick Appleby’s Annaf did land this prize two years ago and is back for another crack.
O’Brien will have high hopes of scoring in the Red Sea Turf Handicap over a mile and seven furlongs, as he saddles Epsom Derby third Tennessee Stud and Leopardstown Group Three winner Sons And Lovers , although his Melbourne Cup runner-up Goodie Two Shoes is a non-runner.
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