Yesterday provided us with the usual difficult racing between the big festivals. We had two winners, Iver Bridge Lad (15/8) and Nideeb in the Winter Derby at 9/4F. I was at Stratford yesterday and the winners summed up the day, Cornwall, Chapman, Middleton, Honeyball, Williams, King (Annabel) and Newland trained the winners. Not high quality and devilishly tough, but a good day out at a cracking little track, which has lots of character.
Today are the Guineas trials at Leopardstown, but these are my selections on the Jumps in Britain: Dizzy River E/W (2.40 Hexham), Its A Classic (4.40 Hexham), Victor Hewgo (5.40 Hexham), Medicine Man w/o the favourite or E/W (2.55 Wincanton), Drybrook Bedouin (3.25 Wincanton), Paint The Clouds (3.55 Wincanton).
The best selections are Its A Classic, who is the longest traveller to Hexham and holds a good chance, Victor Hewgo, who was a cracking second at Doncaster recently and should be able to win a weakish contest, Medicine Man could suprise at Wincanton in the handicap chase and Paint The Clouds is the banker for a cracking little yard and the form of his second to Ocean Transit at Kempton is working out quite well.
Nap is Paint The Clouds
Good Luck
Hi Will,
ReplyDeleteIt's a Classic is certainly interesting today and I like your nap too - good luck with that.
My nap Choumakeur has just run a shocker at Wincanton, which sums up the difficulties of punting at this time of year. Everything seemed in it's favour but it ran unaccountably badly - I can't even blame it on a long hard season. The only excuse I can think of is that it wasn't allowed to dominate.
The ground is now drying out too quickly - it's time to pray for (midweek) rain before Aintree.