Sandown Sat 3rd Jan

[bowles10]

:hope this meeting will be on. Hopefully will meet up with Alex, if anyone else is going, PM me before 10.30am tomorrow with your mobile number & we can meet up? Think Venetia Williams has a decent chnace with a couple of lightweights, plus I like the look of Somersby to improve again & give the market leaders in the Tolworth something to think about. In the last race, 3.50 Prince Taime from Hobbs yard keeps jumping out at me. After starting the season on an unbeaten run of 3, ran well at Newbury on 1st start behind Helens visions & Khyber Kym, next time out before xmas, ran 9th behind Sentry duty without ever getting in a blow. Wouldnt want anything above 11st in this race & therefore 10st 13lb is just about perfect. At 10/1 EP may represent good ew value.

[WoodyTHFC]

Re: Sandown Sat 3rd Jan 1.35 Helium 15 pts SP Helium is trained by gifford who has a strong team of novice hurdlers this year and is unbeaten this term in this country. It has posted two good wins so far and could well defy a penalty to go in again today. On its uk debut it gave a stack of weight to beat the 120 rated sainglend and thats a fair victory given sainglend managed to finish third behind big TH fancy Zaynar and subsequent grade 1 winner walk on. Indeed on a parallel of that form it gives psi a fair bit to find with helium today even if improved for its first win. Helium has won since as well and done it well to defeat tanaku, tanaku being a nice sort who once got pretty close to TH second fav. starluck, so the formlines a strong for helium. A slight doubt maybe about the ground as it may well be quicker ground faced than previously but he coped well enough with good ground in france and if he copes with the ground today, he can defy the penalty and win today. 2.40 Dee Ee Williams 2/1 var bog 20 pts See above. Essentially this is a nice horse who is rated extremely highly by his trainer, his formlines look strong, chelt. win with loads of form boosts, similarly his asc. win looks good especially given the presence of the talented shoreacres. He lost lto but very narrowly to an unexposed sort from King who I beleive has improved a lot since being beaten by mahonia at exe. and didnt run to form that day. The slightly in out pace that day at asc. probably didnt help a horse who is seen to better effect with a more out and out gallop either. He should get something more like that today with the two outsiders both showing the desire to make all previously, as has mahonia and the stiff finish late on should be right up his street. Bold bid expected. 3.50 Prince Taime 10/1 var bog 7.5 pts e.w Very competitive looking handicap, could make a claim for half a dozen in this one but prince taime is lightly raced and probably a horse who there has not been the best seen of yet. PT was fairly impressive in a couple of wins last season with one notable success over the very talented ouzbeck, a good chaser and 140+ rated hurdler, a formline that suggests 126 isnt the harshets rating of all time. This season he put up a fair effort fto when behind a couple of useful sorts in khyber kim and helens vision and staying on well having been given quite a fair bit to do. Similar hold up tactics could quite work lto at asc. in a slightly unusual tactical race behind the two trail blazers although his 8th wasnt that bad a run. Significantly though he was johnson's choice that day even though the yard had the majorly gambled on eventual second. That suggests he is quite well thought of and I can also see the stiff finish suiting his hold up tactics for chances of a place at the least.