Very interesting one running at Chelmsford City (cor blimey what a terrible name for a racecourse by the way) at 4.10 of the morrow. The one who a fortnight or so ago I was dropping hints about re the ‘Freddie Winter’ at the old Festival. He has his ‘prep’ for that race tomorrow but it needs to be Remembered with a capital ‘R’ that the outing is the animals ‘hors d'oeuvre ’ before the ‘main course’ it is not, I say not, the ultimate target.
VOSNE ROMANEE had 13 outings on the level for Keith Dalgleish proving above average as he won twice and finished runner-up a further 4 times. However, it is over timber that he has really come into his own winning a pair of juvenile hurdles, placing on his other 3 starts and achieving a perch of 126. He won’t run over hurdles again prior to Cheltenham in order to protect that lenient looking mark.
Tomorrow’s race over 10 furlongs looks ultra tough but you would have to think that Vosne Romanee could be highly competitive off 65 as not only did he have decent form when with old boy Dalgleish but he deffo seems to have improved since moving South to join the forum’s third favourite Doctor. In the debit column though again I stress it is a ‘prep’ run and the horse hasn’t run for some 4 months.
Re the ultimate target at Cheltenham, incidentally, is at the time of writing a 25/1 shot.
