Lingfield 7/2/09

[fintron]

3.00 Lingfield

In what looks to be a wide open event I think Comeintothespace is an interesting runner. He’s been campaigned over hurdles for Karl Burke last year (the best he managed was a couple of seconds) but is now back with his old trainer Rodney Farrant. When he was with Farrant before he had an admirable record on the all-weather with form figures of 132310811 that included two course wins, one of which was over this distance. Burke rarely ran him on the AW, and on the two occasions he did, he flopped. However, I’m hoping that a return to familiar surroundings may bring about a revival in form, much like Confidentiality showed a couple of weeks ago on his comeback run for Michael Wigham. Comeintothespace runs off a mark of 50 tomorrow, which is 3 lbs lower than his win at Kempton in April ’07 and given that he is proven on the surface, a CD winner and can go well fresh I’ll have punt. 3.35 Lingfield The best race of the day and it looks very competitive. Top-weight Philatelist was suprisingly sent off favourite for his last run but has been struggling to make his mark in handicaps and is 6 lbs above his last win. A 2 lb easing mark from last time out will help but he's got work to do to get closer to Lady Jane Digby. Prairie Spirit is a bit of an unknown quantity but his relatives seem to have preferred softer surfaces than this so I'm opposing on the basis of the going. Ace of Hearts is a decent sprinter and although knocking on, is consistent. However, there are doubts as to whether he can see out another couple of furlongs here. Lady Jane Digby had the beaten of a couple of these over course and distance on the 10th January and was mugged off a follow up off 90 when last seen by Formation. She runs off a 1 lb higher mark here but is 1 lb better off with that rival. Formation himself may have fluked that win as he was running in claimers not so long since. Confidentiality may find the company a bit too hot and one of the more likely ones is Baylini, third to Formation and LJD last time out in a blanker finish. He's been knocking on the door off 87 of late and could go well again. John Terry ran with promise for some way on his comeback here on 10th Jan but failed to build on that last time out. With Gwens Spirit a NR, that leaves just two more runners, Al Muheer and Internationaldebut. Al Muheer may be suited by the step up in trip and was well backed when fourth to Wasp last time, however, he may not get the race run to suit with the lack of a pacesetter in the field. If the pace is slow they this may not turn out to be as big a test of stamina as it looks on paper, and it could play into the hands on Internationaldebut who didn't finish a million miles away from Formation, Lady Jane Digby and Baylini last time and may just be stretching himself to last a truly run 10f. He was in rampant mood earlier in the year and his disappointing 9th three starts ago came as a bit of a surprise. Perhaps he needed that run (returned from 43 day break), and when he was 5th after, the slow surface at Southwell may not have been to his liking as he likes to come from off the pace. His last effort was a bit more respectable and having been cut 2 lbs since, he is now only 3 lbs higher than his last win. 11/1 Lads 4.10 Lingfield Everybody Knows is in good form and was closely matched with Trafalgar Square over course and distance last time out when a one-length second. However, he's 6 lbs better off with that rival tomorrow and also runs off more favourable terms with the third that day, Strabinios King. The form of that race is working out well with the winner, third, seventh and tenth all picking up next time out wins and after only seven runs the colt is open to further improvement.

[Aykay1]

Re: Lingfield 7/2/09 Agreed in the 410 Fintron :ok 410 Lingfield - Everybody Knows - ew @ 9/2 skybet In good form especially over this C&D. Runner up last time, the 1st and 3rd have gone on to win in better company so the form looks decent. The winner Trafalgar square lines up today and is an obvious threat, especially after a good run in a class 2 last time, but he is 7lb’s worse off with Everybody Knows for the Lingfield run, in which he had a dream passage in the closing stages. I fancy Everybody Knows to reverse the form.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />