Daily Racing Thread Monday 18th. October 2021

Monday's Meetings

Bath
Flat 8 Races 1:00-5:05p.m.
Pontefract
Flat 8 Races 1:15-5:15p.m.
Gowran
Flat 8 Races 1:30-5:25p.m.
Plumpton
N/H 7 Races 1:55-5:22p.m.
Wolverhampton(E)
A/W 8 Races 5:00-8:30p.m.

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Good Luck

 

Plumpton 2:30 Mawlood

A course winner over hurdles of a higher mark. Both runs over fences better than finishing position may suggest. A mistake 4 out halting his momentum at Stratford last time out (outpaced final furlongs). The talented Tabitha Worseley takes off valuable 5 lb again.

 

Plumpton 4.15 Can't Stop Now

Won well from the front in a juvenile hurdle one year ago and stable amongst the winners last 14 days. Chris Gordon does well with his hurdlers in handicaps at Plumpton over the last 5 seasons

Runs 82 Wins 15 Placed 27 PL 26.25

I expect a bold front running performance today at a nice each way price.

 

That mark of 133, in the novice handicap, looks most appealing re Danny Kirwin. Eye-catching. The same stable may also debut the Devizes crews, Stage Star, over hurdles, at the same meet. Although the latter also has an entry at God's own racecourse on Thursday.

 

Friday looks pretty mediocre. Hopefully see some better entries for Saturday when they appear this afternoon. Thankfully the wet weather has started so we can get the jumps season started.

 

If you like a match race

 

Gordon normally enters loads and runs very few. It depends on if he goes for his recent approach or reverts to the loads of runners he had in 2018. If he declares him I think itll scare at least a couple off.

 

Do they?

 

Just had a quick look at Saturday's Cheltenham card and my regular readers will know what excites me most about it. There is a Pertemps Qualifier. Hooooooooooorah, say I! Is that the first this season??? Can't recall any others. More plots than an Agatha Christie novel and all that...

Meanwhile, that Bumper that concludes the fixture looks Classy with a capital 'C'. Potential and some, methinks...

And something to note in that very race the Hendo horse has been renamed since its purchase. Is that significant??? I don't know. Now called Swapped. Not hugely expensive though at €32,000.

 

Always been my trademark.

 

Bit of housekeeping re Swapped. The Lambourn correspondent in 'The Weekender' is raving about him in the current issue.

And he has now been declared to run in the Bumper at Cheltenham (5.15) on Saturday which looks an absolutely Corking Contest with 2 capital 'C's'. Would certainly recommend members watch that heat together with their notebooks.

 

Now you've said that, I might even stay and watch the race

 

Also should be noted that Hendo has won the last 2 runnings of that race (decent prices as well 13/2 and 4/1). Your pal won the 2 renewals before that.