Talking Horses: Monday’s best bets for Kempton and Taunton

Mar 20, 2017

The Warrior (4.30), who returned from a seven-month break with a very promising run at Lingfield last time out, is worth another chance at Kempton’s all-weather meeting

When to give up on a horse that you have been following? In the case of The Warrior (4.30), it was probably at least four runs ago, but Amanda Perrett’s gelding gets one more, very final chance to show that he has another victory in him when he goes to post for an eight-furlong handicap at Kempton Park on Monday.

The Warrior’s 19 starts to date have yielded just a single success, back in March 2015 on his three-year-old debut when he was still trained by Aidan O’Brien. With only a few exceptions, O’Brien’s cast-offs tend to spend the rest of the racing careers underlining their former trainer’s good judgement, but The Warrior threatened to be an exception in his first three runs for Perrett last spring.

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