Tips
After another blank yesterday, we dust down and head to Salisbury with two for the card — a well-handicapped 9/2 chance and a 66/1 each-way flier worth a minimum stake. Plus the eyecatchers from a busy Monday, going straight in the book.
Three across the cards on a busy Monday — a well-treated filly for her Leicester reappearance, a hurdler dropping sharply in class at Roscommon after a luckless Cheltenham run, and an eleven-year-old course specialist who looks to have found the easiest race of his career at Windsor. The angle and the price behind each, before the off.
A blank yesterday, but Akkadian Thunder ran a stack better than the bare result and goes straight in the book. Today it’s back to a single bet — an Ed Walker second-time-out runner at Goodwood, on an angle that’s been paying handsomely when this particular jockey takes the ride.
Three on the card today, spread across Epsom and Doncaster — headed by a filly running at nearly double the price she looks worth in the Epsom Dash, with a brace of Doncaster punts alongside, including an each-way poke at a big number.
A quick one tonight after a thin couple of days — two for the evening cards, a Curragh hunch on a combination with a serious strike rate, and a Ripon filly from a yard the market keeps overlooking.
May signs off just shy of a record at +38.70pts, so June starts with two win bets on the evening cards — one at Windsor, one at Wolverhampton. A step up in trip, a horse the handicapper’s only just loosening his grip on, and a few others worth keeping an eye on.
Three each-way bets at Thirsk this afternoon — a point on Muker off the high-draw angle, plus two smaller half-point plays later on the card. The full reasoning, the prices and the form behind all three, posted before the off.
A series of tricky, trappy cards today, competitive throughout and a whisker from a no-bet day. But I’ve landed on one at Yarmouth — an old sprinter on a lenient mark for his new yard, with cobwebs blown off and a jockey upgrade aboard.
One bet today, at Hamilton — a 5f juvenile maiden, and a triple system qualifier with a really interesting angle around the dam and her previous debut winners for the yard. Plus a word on a Sunday at Uttoxeter that rubbed my face in it.
A quick one today: a single bet in the Uttoxeter Bumper, built on a couple of angles with strong pointers. First, though, an honest word on a -4pts day across York, Windsor and Salisbury that had me closing the laptop and walking the dog.