Flat Racing 3rd Jan

[chris34]

2.00 Wolverhampton Competitive looking apprentice handicap with 7 runners. Hard rule many of these out but I am gonna give Buaiteoir a miss today, this will only be his second start for Darcy and although ran respectably last time out he didnt shape as if a winner waiting to happen having gone up 6lb for winning twice at Dundalk recently and handicapper might just be incharge as didnt win by much so doesnt have a lot of room for error. The other one who is likely to be at the top of the market that I am keen to oppose is Nicholas Pocock yard are in good form but this horse has far too many short priced 2nds and 3rds which just dont attract me and does need a strong race to be seen at best and unlikely to get that today with such a small field. The Kelleway yard is in good form at the moment and they run one of their south african imports here in D'Artagnan who didnt need to be anything special to win a mile maiden at lingfield beating a 69 rated rival that day by nearly 4 lengths and could still have more to offer on handicap debut. The other that interests me is Kidlat who appears to be running into form at the moment, and lost nothing in defeat last time out again stable are in very good form and an apprentice that should know the horse well (she is connected to the yard) and takes off a very handy 5lb and at the moment his OR is 5lb below last winning mark! 0.3pt win Kidlat 0.2pt win D'Artagnan 4.35 Wolverhampton Justcallmehandsome and Merrymadcap drop into a 0-60 for the first in a long while and both are capable on theire day but both showing little sign of form at the moment. Mount Hollow made a very good start to a UK campaign last time out when staying on fourth over CD, has won on AW before in france and handicapper giving him a massive chance off a 2lb lower mark today and form of that race working out well with the winner and 6th place going and winning next time out yard had a winner or two recently so no concerns there. No Complaining won in good enough start after a tardy start, didnt beat much that day and handicap had his says putting her up 6lb but she is still lightly raced and open to more improvement yet and does look at home on the AW aswell. Join Up is nothing but consistent and has to be entered into recogning on current efforts, finally got a win for string of good efforts when beating the Cyril The Squirrel by nearly 2 lengths, not clearest run next day and perhaps race too soon next time out but far from disgraced up 5lb for those efforts and although never won off a mark this high in current form must have a chance! 0.2pt win Mount Hollow 0.2pt win No Complaining 0.1pt win Join Up 2.45 Southwell Snow Bay made Nazreef work extremely hard last time out, field well strung out that day so obvious concerns about that form but remains on a good mark despite a 4lb rise in the weights for that run but has hardly ran a bad race around here before. Follow The Flag was 3rd behnd Snow Bay last time out and gets a 6lb turnaround in the weights for 5 lengths and was staying on well and probably better than the bare result only 1lb higher above last winning mark and does have winning form around here! 0.3pt win Snow Bay 0.2pt win Follow the Flag

[diamond1924]

Re: Flat Racing 3rd Jan the racing must be rubbish if you won't even risk half a point on anything Chris?