ok here's my picks, as usual mostly looking for place horses, picked before looking at the odds, anything with rubbish ew odds not mentioned or removed.
FAIRYHOUSE soft
1:05
zuzka 14/1 a few probably better than this one but had a recent win over longer distance sft/hvy and beat the likes of busty brown and dara tango. small field, risky pick.
1:35
degigout 11/8 really looks the likely winner, but if there remains 5 in the race i've gone for pride of the artic 14/1 ew who has 6 chases to his name and 4 of those were a win on this type of ground. further up in the betting are bucker's bridge and arvika ligeonniere who only have 1 chase to their name although the latter won his by some margin.
2:05
miss pepperpot 9/1 shortening, gone much further on sft/hvy and still does well.
3:10 3m5f
i couldn't find a horse consistently used to these distances so a bit of an unknown. went for Give us a hand and Droin Toll both 12/1. Droim Toll has beaten good horses back in May over 30f, and Give us a hand has gone one place better than him in the same race this November (i.e 6th place) over 28f sft and has the benefit of ruby walsh.
2:40
voler la vedette 7/4 win, hopeful sentimental choice there but she's predictably the favourite.
LEICESTER soft
1:20
i always reckon selling hurdles are especially unpredictable so i've just have one, wom 32/5 now shortening to 19/5, picked for its couple of 2nds lately, the last one being 2nd to rowlestone lad and ahead of rano pano. not many runners though so i might have stumped meself!
1:50 2m7f
the betting in this is the opposite to what i expected but 2 picks:
huckleberry 11/1 was shortening (now 14s i think). but lots of experience over these distances plus pulled out 4 wins back in the spring and a 5th over 30f. bit further down the betting than i expected.
guydus 6/1 last run was a win over 26, was beaten by huckleberry back in the spring.
odds as at midnight. after today, tomorrow's racing looks ok to me. nice winding down sunday.
i'll put my picks separately.
Toppy
