Warwick 17th April

[Haitch]

17:00 - Homes By Woodford (RPF 14/1) This may well be my biggest bet of the year to date. Exactly the right conditions for me. An 8 horse handicap with 2 over-hyped sorts leading the market. Firstly, My Secrets, the Racing Post NAP. He is on a 3 timer. However, after winning by neck and short head in last 2 does not fill me with confidence. He has not run since Nov and seems to need the run from early trends. Dan Tucker, the other fav is up in class, down in trip and is the trainers only winner this season - again not convinced that this will improve. My selection, HBW, has in his last 10 races won 4 and came placed in 1 - (at 18/1). Great jockey booking in Paul Hanagan - who won last time for their first horse / jockey partnership. In recent races when getting beat, has only been on average 2l down. I think the RPF is massive at 14's and see this tumbling before the off, but with strong support for the market leaders may stay in double figures. Fingers crossed that there are no non runners and we get paid for 3 places. GL, :ok

[stewartd14]

Re: Warwick 16th April Be careful with this one mate. Your selection has never been placed on turf, Dan Tucker is an improving horse and although trainer is not in excellent form this horse is still showing signs of improving even further. Also Mark Johnstones horses tend to improve from 2 to 3 and I expect My Secrets to do the same. The horse he beat last time was Mastership, who recently ran a creditable 1 1/2 length 4th behind Hinton Admiral in the Spring Cup. I think Homes By woodford's price reflects his chances as this is a competitive race and the 2 market leaders deserve to battle it out between them. Madaarek may also improve now it's running on turf from its recent 3rd to Zaham on the AW. I hope your selection runs well but just a word of warning about it's turf form and its main rivals.