Hello, people. Really like one running of the morrow and that one is monikered DIPTYCH (8.45 Chelmsford).
This one had 3 runs in maidens last term and was beaten 24 lengths, 4 lengths and 21 lengths respectively. Those efforts earned the old boy a perch of 60 - something I would imagine his shrewd trainer, that terrible old rogue Prescott, is now ready to now exploit to the full. That belief is further enhanced by the eye catching fact that on his handicap bow, tomorrow, Diptych is stepped up to a much more suitable looking 10 furlongs having been previously campaigned over just 6 or 7, I say just 6 or 7, furlongs.
Diptych is bred to be far, far, far better than a 60 rated performer – his dam was a dual winner and finished 4th at Listed level whilst she in turn is a daughter of Last Second who won both the Sun Chariot and Nassau Stakes (Group 2’s at the time but both heats now Group 1) and finished runner-up in the Coronation Stakes. Through Last Seconds daughters animals of the calibre of Coronet (this year’s Ribbisdale winner) and Midas Touch (Irish Derby runner-up) have emerged.
The one drawback to the selection is, of course, that he has been off the track for some 332 days. To use that terrible forum cliché I’m not going to employ an elaborate ‘I’ve been told…’ story, crew. The simple fact is that I have no idea re Diptych’s current level of fitness and that is the obvious drawback re any wager. However, the trainer has a history of winning with horses after a break and he is currently in respectable form with, at the time of writing, 4 winners (and a further 6 runner-ups) since 31 August.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Diptych (from such a humble rating) run up a sequence starting at Chelmsford tomorrow evening. Recommended.
Good luck, pilgrims.
