Tips
A bruising day yesterday with two of the others-noted bolting in while the selection flopped — but no chasing it. Three taken today from Sandown and Fairyhouse, including a couple of debutants worth a serious look and one monster price I couldn’t leave alone.
After a couple of blanks, the cards today are a grind — plenty looked at, but only one stood out worth getting involved with. A Beckett filly who caught the eye travelling on her turf debut last time, and has been nudged up just 3lb for it. One bet at Newbury.
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.