BBOTD 5th Dec

[chris34]

2.00 Lingfield Plenty of pace in this race from Huzzah, Sweet Secret, Daruband and The Holyman all like to be up with the pace and although it has paid to be prominent most of the time at Lingfield recently this race could be setup for a finisher given the amount of front runners. Sweet Secret won a decent enough handicap at Kempton last time out under Spencer giving him a brilliant ride from the front, had the run of the race that day and will find things tougher this time round. Aqulifer beat Hereford Boy last time out by a short head only just holding on and finds himself 3lb higher today, that was rather out of the blue although course record speaks for itself 4 wins from 7 runs around here but Hereford Boy should be able to reverse those placings on a 1lb better terms today and will be well suited to the strong gallop that is likely. He is still 2lb below his last winning mark and like the rest of his yard he has been running well recently and looks ready to build on those promising runs. Peponi is worth a saver, although still a maiden only has a few miles on the clock and has looked the sort that could pick up a race or two up over the winter especially considering he is fresher than most. Met plenty of trouble in the finish last time out but still finished well behind Lockantanks who ran a solid race off an 8lb higher mark in a much better race which suggests that form will hold up and he runs off the same mark today. 1pt win Hereford Boy 6/1 bet365

[Haystacks]

Re: BBOTD 5th Dec Follow The Flag - Lin 2.00 (e/w 14-1 BET365 BOG) I agree with Chris34 that there should be plenty of pace in the race, which should hopefully set the race up for Follow The Flag. The selection has dropped 14lb in the weights since March, largely because of his poor efforts on turf over the summer. He is a much better horse on the A-W, and showed signs of his old ability two runs ago at Wolverhampton. He drops down to Class 5 today, and returns to the scene of his last success a CD win at Lingfield. If he finally sparks back to life then he could feature in the finish at a big price.