Lovely card at Newbury tomorrow afternoon for what must be called an Informative, with a capital ‘I’, card. Really is, in my view, a meet to watch with your old notebook as there should be eyecatchers, to note for the future, aplenty.
The ones who appeal to me are Rathhill in the 1.05 (the dam is a half-sister to 4 time Grade 1 winner Bellshill and he was runner-up in his sole Irish point) and Downtown Getaway in the 2.45 (ridiculously easy winner of a Fairyhouse bumper, last December, and the dam is a half-sister to the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful mare Chomba Womba).
Ludders also looks half-decent. Look, I know none of us back horses based on their names. No, no, no, no, no. It’s either endless hours of form study or following detailed consultation with our moles / insiders / contacts (delete as appropriate) – nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more. But have a look at Trull La La (2.00). A daughter, coincidentally, of the above mentioned Chomba Womba and therefore a beautifully bred filly. Bred by Richard Kelvin-Hughes (who retains an interest and the filly runs in an adaption of his colours) at his Trull House Stud. As far as I’m aware this is the first animal he has ever named or run with ‘Trull’ in its moniker. Significant surely as she will be a highly visible advertisement (good or bad only time will tell) every single time she runs and you’d hardly name one after your business who wasn’t up to much. I may be adding 2 and 2 together and making 1,203,941 but to me it’s highly noteworthy.
Meanwhile, the eye-catching pilot booking of the day must be the Blake barn getting The Daughter to partner Mouchee in the concluding contest (an apprentice one) at Lingers Park (3.25) – her only ride for a stable other than Daddy Paul (although she actually does all the training of the Flat string) or the Loughnane yard for almost a month and a half. I won’t be backing the horse (you most deffo can’t with any confidence, anyway, as in 4 races for the stable he has beaten home just 2 animals!) but the combo certainly caught my attention and in the ‘plus’ column Mouchee is on his lowest mark since winning a Windsor handicap, by 3.25 lengths, in July. Meanwhile, he’s solid course form as well -23242. Interesting…
Good luck all.
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