Mick Easterby has a 7-2 shot with a big chance on Wolverhampton’s all-weather trackThe racing on offer today is what you would expect for a Monday but there are winners to be found and I strongly fancy that crafty old Yorkshireman Mick Easterby to get among them with Babouska (4.05) in Wolverhampton’s handicap over an extended nine furlongs. Continue reading...
David Pipe could get a Wetherby winner with What A Moment, who was good enough to score at Cheltenham in NovemberLudlow’s card could not escape the overnight frost and was abandoned this morning, but the news is better from West Yorkshire, where Wetherby’s seven-race card over jumps has passed an inspection and will go ahead as planned, albeit with one fence — the last open ditch in the back straight — omitted in all chases.The novice handicap chase is the most valuable race on the card, and probably the most interesting from a punter’s point of view, as it is currently betting to a margin of just 3%. None of the seven runners can be dismissed out of hand, as...
The only scheduled jumps card has been called off but there’s plenty of all-weather action to tide us overOh rats, Lingfield has been frozen off, which means no jump racing today. I suppose we should all just be grateful we haven’t had more of such issues this winter but I’d worked myself into a bit of a lather over one of my picks there and now it’ll just be another thing to ponder on my deathbed: would that yak have won at Leafy? Chiz chiz chiz. Continue reading...
The veteran Working Title may be able to follow up on his Boxing Day revival at Hereford todayGoodness me, 9-4 about Working Title (2.25). I was expecting he might be a shade of odds-on for today’s handicap chase at Hereford, where he is trying to defy a penalty for scoring at Sedgefield on Boxing Day. Continue reading...
Rebecca Curtis’s stable continues in form and she may be able to strike at Bangor On DeeI have to admit to being mildly disappointed by the peak figure for ITV Racing’s debut of 831,000. It seems to me that at least that many have now had their say about the programme in newspapers and online. From the quantity of internet-based interest yesterday, you’d have thought we were all talking about an especially provocative episode of ‘Corrie’. Continue reading...