Daily Racing Thread Wednesday 21st. Dec.2016

[TC (Lovely Geezer)]

Ffos Las looks especially horrid today. Does it always rain at that track?

Of course it does - it's in Wales!!

 

[Sir Barney Chuckles]

As today is my last day at the coalface before the big day, and indeed this year, now seems like the perfect time to wish everybody, and I do mean everybody, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

And as a Christmas present to the dear old regular readers let me give you this one for St Stephen’s Day. Chop, chop…write it down. SHAAMA GRISE (2.50 Fonters Park) is set to make her UK bow for those old rogues, the Pipe’s, after being purchased from across The Channel. She’ll being doing so off a perch of just 114. That’s so low that I doubt they’ll even need the assistance of the ‘magic fridge’ with this one. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more…

Toodles…

 

[OddDog]

As the going is soft, heavy in places, at Ffos Las I have been scouring the racecard for any Alflora offspring. Only 2 running as follows:

1.50 NH Novices Hurdle - Braw Angus by Alflora out of Suilven. Well beaten in 2 runs in the last month (both over 15F, on Good-soft at Huntingdon and Good at Leicester) but the going will be much more to his liking today. Might be worth a quid e/w at 66/1 but some powerful yards represented here.

2.50 Novices Handicap Chase - Walk On Al (by Alflora out of Wave Back) looks much more likely, despite the 7lbs penalty. He stuck on really well last time out at this course on soft, coming back after being headed to score over a trip a furlong further than today's. It's a tight little handicap this but at around 6/1 I'll take a risk on the old Alflora genes powering Walk On Al through the mud.

E/W singles and double for a bit of pre-Christmas fun. Best of luck to everyone

****ing Alflora I'd have been better of backing Alf Garnett

 

[OddDog]

Chucked a couple of Euros at the Hobbs/Johnson horse in the Ludlow bumper in the hope that it was running with the butt plug in on debut and that Dickie will get a better tune out of it than Mr Cheeseman did.

 

[stick]

Sodding Henderson

 

[OddDog]

The first 2 looked very speedy for a bumper there stick - could be a nice race. Would've been a lovely winner for you with the drift, unlucky to run into a good un there. Dicky's mount plugged on for 5th

 

[beeforsalmon]

Lovely horse there, looks cheap at 70k!

 

[tward07]

Henderson hitting some form at the right time.

 

[rudebwoy]

Sign of the Kodiac in the 4 30 at gosforth park - could be wrong , but stable form is good , back on a straight track , will try and make all , fly is caspian prince likes to do the same......he's off a high mark now whereas givens runner is still workable .........

was well wrong ....... another run or two by the looks of things , wait till he goes back to Chelmsford .....

 

[SaveTheHumans]

Sizing Platinum 4/1 currently (backed at 5/1) - Ludlow 1:35 - being well punted from an opening show of 6/1 earlier, if putting it all together he could prove the one to beat. It's a useful field and I'm hoping the top form of Tizzard carries on. Nice pot to be had.

An unlucky faller SP. Fairly certain he would have won cosily enough but sadly came down 4 out. He lives to fight another day though which is the main thing.

Well done the winners today.