Hello, all. Must confess there is one from the county that I seriously, and I do mean seriously, like tomorrow.
NEBULA STORM (7.55 Kempton Park) – this 9YO was claimed by current connections almost a year ago and has performed with credit since then as in 5 runs he’s won a handicap hurdle and been placed on a further 3 occasions. That final placing was on his first run on the level, for the Michael Blake barn, as Nebula Storm finished a highly respectable 3rd at Chepstow. That time the old boy was in front with a furlong to run before being run out of things in the final 100 yards. It really is, people, no coincidence that tomorrow he’s dropped in distance by a furlong to an ideal looking 1 mile 3 – the exact distance, incidentally, that Nebula Storm has won his last two races on the Flat (back in ’14 and ’15). At his pomp on the level he was rated as highly as 102 (largely due to finishing runner-up to Fame and Glory in Listed grade) but tomorrow runs off just 59, I say, 59. Has a lovely pedigree as well being a son of Galileo and a half-brother to a St Leger runner-up (The Last Drop) and the useful Ardlui (4 time winner and rated in the high 90’s). Tomorrow’s heat does look a competitive one but off the above mentioned 59 Nebula Storm should go close, methinks.
Good luck, pilgrims.
