Hello, crew. Hope everyone tickety-boo.
Firstly, well done to the Stick boy and Jennys Surprise, what a lovely name for a mare by the way. And cor blimey, you old rogue, what a nice prizepot to boot!
I’m in Wales tomorrow (don’t worry regular readers I’ve received my inoculations) so thought I’d post this today. Before Christmas I spoke about a nudge, nudge, wink, wink horse who would have a ‘quiet’ run over hurdles (his 3rd to gain a perch) before being unleashed properly in a handicap hurdle. He (Broadway Dreams) has his first run since of the morrow but it’s on the level, I say the level. Had it been in a handicap hurdle I would have been instructing the regular readers to open the vault but tomorrow is, as detailed, on the Flat and quite frankly anything could happen. I’m not going to deploy that terrible forum cliché and say ‘I’ve been told…’ because quite frankly I haven’t been! My own interpretation, and this could be very wrong, is that tomorrow is a ‘prep’, a ‘hors d'oeuvre’, a ‘sighter’ (as Broadway dreams hasn’t run for 2 months) in order to get him fully ready for a handicap hurdling debut in the not too distant future. Also, I can’t see connections wanting him to romp home tomorrow otherwise he is going to be ridiculously short, in the market, when running over timber off 100!
As an example of how well handicapped Broadway Dreams is over hurdles. He’s 100 in that sphere but 75 on the level. Contrast that gap with Cliffs of Dover, the chatter horse from the weekend – 145 over timber and 64 on the Flat. Shows how well handicapped BD is over hurdles and COD on the Flat, incidentally – but that’s a subject for another day!
Look I just don’t know how BD will fare tomorrow but watch him together with your notebook and get on him, for real, when he goes handicap hurdling. I will have a tiny bit on, each-way, at Kempton (the forecast price is 16/1) but more as insurance if you like to stop me going ‘bally bonkers’ if he does oblige! I’ll leave it to the individual to decide if you want to back, lay or do the ‘Liberal Democrat equivalent’ (i.e. something in between) re tomorrow’s 6.45 at Kempton Park.
Good luck all.
welcome mate