Racing Chat - Friday

[BillyHills]

[beaker1]

Newbury (2.40)

 

 BENATAR bids to get back to winning ways for the Gary Moore team. The five-year-old was far from disgraced when upped to Listed level at Huntingdon last time and the step back into normal novice company should pose a slightly easier task. The way he won on his debut at Fontwell suggested that he was a smart performer but he was keen again last time and will need to curb that enthusiasm if he is to realise his full potential. He faces a tough rival in the shape of Ben Pauling’s Le Breuil who won at Sedgefield in November and is highly admired by his trainer. He is unsurprisingly the short-priced favourite but he is returning from an absence of 115 days so perhaps our horse will have fitness on his side. They are two unexposed horses with bright futures ahead of them and I suggest a small win bet on our horse at around the 3/1 mark

BENATAR – 1pt win @ 3/1 (bet365, Paddy Power