What are you backing Today?

[reet hard]

3.05 Lingfield.
f/c Three Weeks to beat Fearsome
Currently pays 4.96 - none too dusty in a 4 runner contest.

[PlaceBacker]

Morning

Expecting a big run in the 1.50 Cheltenham from

​The Kings Writ

Each Way @ 8-1 [Bet 365] 1/4 BOG

Ran well but 4th!

[Bolero]

Backed a couple at Fontwell today:

3:00 - Birds Of Prey (at 7/4 with Laddies, decent chance in this.)

4:00 - Tigeralley (at 7/1 again with Laddies, has a squeak at good odds.)

[Bolero]

Sorry, duplicated for some reason!

[Danny]

Double hit of the crossbar aswell, unlucky Bolero.

[Bolero]

Yes, Danny, that's the way it goes sometimes with horseracing. With the drift to 10/1 guess I should have backed the second one e/w. Never mind, maybe something will be worth a go during the week!

[Marb]

Down Royal 3:55 Liffeydale Dreamer ...Win and Place 16/1

This mare's gone to a fair price. She only recently turned four years of age so still has plenty of mileage. She had a good win last year on the flat, with clear preference for good ground. She should encounter decent ground again here. She wasn't beaten far in 5th place the last day at Punchestown, which was a return to form. It puts her there with a live each way chance. The handicap mark is nothing to complain about. She'd be a few pounds higher if starting off in England. 109 Irish mark doesn't seem too bad. Get that sterling on.

[reet hard]

David O'Meara has trained Gulliver (7.15) for just 4 runs.
In the first of them he was drawn 12/12 at Lingfield and to race wide as a consequence; ran well on his next 2 starts. but finished 2nd to 2 high class horses - Island Of Life and Katchi respectively.
Lto got into a cut-throat pace duel with Danzan, but both were passed by horses coming from the rear of the field. all 4 runs were higher class than today's contest and none look the calibre of those he finished 2nd to.
7/1 generally.

[Outsider]

Down Royal 3:55 Liffeydale Dreamer ...Win and Place 16/1

This mare's gone to a fair price. She only recently turned four years of age so still has plenty of mileage. She had a good win last year on the flat, with clear preference for good ground. She should encounter decent ground again here. She wasn't beaten far in 5th place the last day at Punchestown, which was a return to form. It puts her there with a live each way chance. The handicap mark is nothing to complain about. She'd be a few pounds higher if starting off in England. 109 Irish mark doesn't seem too bad. Get that sterling on.

Good luck mate,hope it gets 2nd lol

[Irishgoat]

Only bet of the week so far, 5.45 Wolves Daring Guest, laying for a place, currently 2.36'ish.

[reet hard]

David O'Meara has trained Gulliver (7.15) for just 4 runs.
In the first of them he was drawn 12/12 at Lingfield and to race wide as a consequence; ran well on his next 2 starts. but finished 2nd to 2 high class horses - Island Of Life and Katchi respectively.
Lto got into a cut-throat pace duel with Danzan, but both were passed by horses coming from the rear of the field. all 4 runs were higher class than today's contest and none look the calibre of those he finished 2nd to.
7/1 generally.

Rubbish!

[Desert Orchid]

The long game, if there is one, was blown yesterday. Yesterday was the plan. He'll go back up the ORs for that - unlike Modus - and won't win a handicap this season because he won't qualify for lower-class ones. They might try and find a small conditions race for him but I imagine his campaign now will be to get him back down to 150 or lower. He hasn't won a jumps race since October 2017 now.

Cracking Find went up 6lbs
Forest Bihan up 3lbs
Modus down 2lbs

Should they meet again, Forest Bihan will be, on the new ratings, 3lbs better off for half a length, in theory enough to turn the form around. Would I back him to do so? Not a snotter's chance.

I was maybe a bit quick to dismiss the chance of FB winning again as he's still a pound below his highest winning rating (when he actually gave Simply Ned weight) for which he went up 4lbs to 158. But it also means the one thing he is not doing is improving.

[Outsider]

Rubbish!

Dont give up on him Reet,wasn't beaten far without being given a tudhope finish.

[reet hard]

Cheers, O.
Race was won from the front (1st & 2nd both first 3, turning in) and he never got near them from his outside draw.

[reet hard]

Seniority 6.00 Meyd: for no other reason than Ryan Moore thinks it's worth the round trip to ride it.
9/2 best at the mo.

[PlaceBacker]

​2nd @ 7-1


Did well to not be beaten far as his jumping was not up to scratch over this trip, horse will win a nice race over further

Runs in the big handicap at Leopardstown on Sunday [4.10] ​Cubomania

Is up in trip...each way at 14-1 [Betfred]

[reet hard]

Winter Derby Trial.

Wissahickon looks the business today, especially with his own pacemaker, but I couldn't take the odds in what's, essentially, a trial.
Far better, a small ew on Abe Lincoln (18/1 generally), who finished close 3rd in last season's Easter Classic, despite a wide trip putting him last turning in.
Had a warm-up race, too.

[Irishgoat]

12.35 lingfield Lieutenant Conde, around 3.5, had a few quid to win on it

[Marb]

Sassy Diva looks nailed on to go close in Leopardstown 12:40.

She was placed in some valuable National Hunt Flat races, then placed in a valuable hurdle the last day. She could win this handicap hurdle off a workable mark.

[Outsider]

Sassy Diva looks nailed on to go close in Leopardstown 12:40.

She was placed in some valuable National Hunt Flat races, then placed in a valuable hurdle the last day. She could win this handicap hurdle off a workable mark.

Nice one M.