Best Bet of the Day - Wed 20/8/08

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Folkestone 6.55 Portodora - Henry Cecil's filly runs off 78 here and looks to have a cracking chance through a couple of bits of useful form. She raced over this trip at Newmarket LTO off her current mark of 78 and only found Kalahari Gold too good. She was beaten by 6 lengths into second but to be fair, that rival was rated 85 that day and has subsequently gone on to score off 97 at a higher level than this. The 3rd was 1.5 lengths behind Portodora and even though he was only rated 68, he did win NTO at Winds, albeit off 68. The other piece of form which reads very well for Portodora is her maiden win at Chester back in May. She had the useful Lindelaan back in second and Stoute's filly won 3 of her next 4, with the latest off 93. Moon Sister was 3rd in that maiden and has just won off 78 and 4th, Quirinia, has won two since, with one coming off 82. All in all, the form suggests Porotdora could have very strong claims running off just 78 here. The going is currently reported as Gd/Sft. If there is further rain she would be heading into the unknown, although she did finish a 0.5 length second on her debut on Gd, Gd/Sft ground. She didn't seem to stay the mile at Newmarket two runs ago when first sent handicapping but back over 7f she gets my vote here.

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Re: Best Bet of the Day - Wed 20/8/08 Portodora has opened at 9/4 with Ladbrokes this morning. I was quite happy with that and have lumped on. At the price, I'd like 1 pt win, although forgot to mention that last night.