Doncaster - 27/2/09

[WoodyTHFC]

2.00 Gold Award 1.97 cent 15 pts This one comes into this race with no hurdle experience in public but generally if he follows like many of his trainers novice horses he would have been well schooled and there is no doubting his ability that he showed over bumpers in the queens colours. He won well at fake in a bumper and then followed up by beating a good PN horse called conflictofinterest who went onto boost that from by winning a historically good ayr bumper on SGN day and also showing fair ability over hurdles already. His 9^th place effort in the festival was a fair effort. Hobbs’ runner looks the danger here but if Gold Award is as good over hurdles as he promised that he could potentially be judging by his bumper days, he could be hard to beat. 3.40 Argento Luna 3 cor 15 pts Backed this lto when she was second and said this, ‘Reasonably talented mare. Showed that in bumpers at var. times including when fifth in ain. bumper during GN meet. Has also shown that she can transfer that to hurdles with a very cosy win fto over a decent if not awkward sort in gloucester. After that she ran into the good over sixty who beat perhaps a below par AL easily. However lto she looked to have returned to something like her real self. She stayed on well when possibly given too much to do to be second, front three clear and the winner boosted the form yesterday. She is raised just 3 pounds for that which seems more than fair and she seems lightly enough weighted of 116 to go close today with the increased distance looking likely to sort too.’ Similar sort of race today and whilst Im getting an impression she may not be completely straight forward, she is the selection today.

[Spooner]

Re: Doncaster - 27/2/09 14:30 - Noticeable Noticeable looked very impressive when he won lto over c&d, he hacked up by 13 lengths and although this race looks slightly tougher I will select him to win again, Alan King's horses are in alright form at the moment and Noticeable may be able to make it two in a row here, big chance. 11/10 (bog)