Wednesday's Meetings Bangor-on-Dee N/H 7 Races 12:50-4:05p.m. Exeter N/H 7 Races 1:00-4:15p.m. Ayr N/H 6 Races 1:10-3:55p.m. Kempton(E) A/W 8 Races 4:25-7:55p.m. Dundalk(E) A/W 8 Races 5:35-9:05p.m. Racecards At The Races Racing Post Sporting Life Good Luck
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.
FLIGHTY FILIA 40/1 EXETER 3.40 Now, I dont think this will win. However, in a race seriously lacking in quality I do think it is worth a bob or two each way. She was a winner on the all weather for Amanda Perratt so she isnt devoid of ability. Her hurdles debut here was in a class 3 so she has dropped a grade here. She is also now in a mares race which are often weaker. She steps up a couple of furlongs and that too will help. Her debut run looked little more than a school and she can be expected to improve, the trainers daughter takes off a handy 7lbs.
Not one I'm going to put up but 2.00 Exter - Boa Island will be extremely hard to beat. Looks like he will make a way better chaser than hurdler- unpenalised for his last easy win and running off bottom weight if he drifts like my selector today then I'll have a small bit on him but if not I'll just watch it and enjoy it .
I'll have a poke on Foxcub at Bangor, 3.00 p.m. Has had wide margin successes at this meeting the last 2 years, only a pound higher than 2015, will appreciate the easing ground and has a fitness edge over most of the field. 8/1. Good luck all.
CAPE CRUISER 20/1 Kempton 5.25 Interesting runner with winners in the family. Made his debut last month in a Windsor maiden that is working out very well. The two just in front of him have been out since and been first and second despite being well beaten on debut. Another from the race has also won since. Cape Cruiser was never really in it and Fran Berry gave him a cozy little education even changing his whip hand at least twice without actually hitting him. He stayed on well enough despite rolling away from the rails (normal at Windsor). He will know a heck of a lot more this time and his trainer Ralph Beckett does really well with his juveniles here. With the top rating in the race being 79 there is every chance that it will be won by a debutante or an improver, hopefully this improver!
I like the look of this one Chan. Had a pipe opener on the flat this time and been allowed to drop down the handicap to only one pound higher than when winning this last year by 22 lengths! CALL ME VIC has to be interesting earlier on the card as well with the yard having something like a 50% strike rate in the last fortnight!
1:50 Seventh Sky - this race is wide open and the selection is one with the form in the book. He is back to his last winning mark and I think the new season can bring him back to his best. Yard in form and he's a much better horse than the market suggests. 16/1
14:25 Bangor - Starlight Court (Fancy this one a bit for the Skelton team. Has been well-backed each time on his three runs to date, which includes a P2P first time out. Currently 9/1 in three places).
I'm liking the look of today's picks, we'll soon have every race at Bangor covered and at nice prices too! I know Wirral isn't exactly on the doorstep of Bangor on Dee but it's at least in the North West and I can tell you the rain came down for a good few hours last night; probably not enough to alter the going, considering how dry it has been, but it may have an influence. I like the look of Ballycoe in the 12.50
How significant is it that Don McCain sends 2 horses to Ayr when there is a full card on just 13 miles away in Bangor? 1.10 Lough Derg Jewel 11/1 2.15 Rolling Thunder 7/2
So unsurprisingly the star of the Flat season MINDING was crowned the Cartier horse of the year yesterday. What a beast she is, hopefully the Lads keep her going next season. Not much she can't do really and would add some racing interest during the summer, bar Galway obviously!
Smooth Stepper was 10 last night lurking on bottom weight -he was second in a chase at Bangor after similar lay off -surely primed for this-halved in price now favourite .....
Decided against going to Bangor as I'm a fair-weather racegoer these days, you'd think "The powers that be" would build a grandstand with all the cash they're scamming off the punters via BangorBET & ChesterBET Donald Feckin Trump the 9/2 second fav. wins the race to the White House...Incredulous Good Luck
Cheese and tomato baguette, salt and vinegar hula hoops and a banana. All washed down with a bucket of water (iced, not from the tap). 8/10. Last month Alan King did one of those ‘stable tour/ interviews’ in the ‘Racing Post’ and talked about 60 of his horses. He’s got 125, in total, but space dictated the publication could only detail 60 of them. Anyway, in the hissy fit to end all hissy fits one of the owners of one of the other 65 has removed his horse from the Wiltshire barn because it wasn’t featured! A severe case of ‘toys out of the pram’, methinks. In other local ownership news I see Neil Mulholland has lost his highest rated horse. Fox Norton (perched now on 161) has been bought by the Potts’ and moved to the Tizzard barn. Huge blow that for Mr Mulholland.
