Best bet of the day 1st Dec

[bowles10]

3.00 Folkstone Zacharova Trainer has a very good record here over fences & ignoring last weeks run when pulled up on G/S ground, this softer ground will be much more suited. Looks a match between this & thedreamstillalive.

[WoodyTHFC]

Re: Best bet of the day 1st Dec Folk 1.30 The Old Pretender 1pt win This could turn out to be quite a decent novice contest especially for the track. There seem three main ones to concentrate on. Awesome George was a good winner lto and Martys Mission has performed well enough on his first two starts. However I think the hurdling debutant The Old Pretender is a very interesting recruit. He was so impressive in his first start in a bumper when he won so easily and got quotes for the fest. bumper after that run and they were justified as the style of his first win was just so impressive. Indeed it was considered good enough for him to start co fav. for a grade 2 after that where possibly he underachieved a bit but looking back at it now, it wasnt as bad a run. The winner mad max and the second the nightingale are good horses and the old pretender initially couldnt live with their extra pace but he plugged onto be fifth. Looking at that I think the decision to start him off at 2 and a half miles is fairly justified, judging by his first win he should like the ground, it will be interesting to see how he gets on and he might just be good enough to win on hurdling debut.