Chester Day 1

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Any strong fancies? I like the look of Gertrude Bell in the Oaks - looks a strong stayer and impressed me alot last time. Really reached out in the last half furlong impressively and being by Sinndar she should only really be coming into her own. Will the Ballydoyle filly get over ok due to the flights being grounded?

Has the ex-Ballydoyle Liszt have any chance in the big one? Useful form at two and never got to show himself off to his best being a lead horse (at home and on the track) as a three year old. Showed nothing on his last start but interesting they are sticking him into this.
 
I'll put this in a more releveant thread.

Hamish McGonagal in the sprint to pay for all other expenses. Someone appears to have broken in to the Easterby barn with them going well at present and this horse looks thrown in on some of his form when second and third off higher marks in strong races last summer. Chester Cup looks very hard, would have been keen on Bernie The Boat with a lower draw but could find things hard. Weakness may get the better of me and if I have a bet in the race it will probably be Swingkeel.

The 3-y-o 12f handicap looks worth having a crack at because I can't get excited about Maxim Gorky who made hard enough work of beating Tropical Blue. In a 4-runner maiden at Leicester, I'd beat Tropical Blue. Alrasm's form has been boosted by Miss Starlight and Paintball but I don't really like him at 12f so will side with Averroes who still holds pattern entries, and Clive Cox isn't the sort of trainer to confuse geese and swans. He comes from what is traditionally a strong race at Sandown and is bred be suited by the step up to 12f.
 
Concerned about the draw for my outside selection in the sprint - Doctor Parkes. He won from the plum draw in the 3yo handicap at this meeting last year beating none other than Noble Storm who went on to be listed placed and currently has an OR of 105. He went in again at Ripon having badly disappointed on softer ground at Haydock before disappointing again at Haydock - he's rated just 6lbs higher than when winning at the meeting last year and his dam improved with age so he looks overpriced to me (even accounting for the draw) at 33/1.
 
I like the way Primo Lady won on debut, plum draw and a decent shout against the fav at 3/1.
 
Hamish McGonagall seemed to break well but did not get a position and you always knew he was going to be going the long way around. Wether he would have got to winner anyway I dont know.
 
It's not that it isn't a 'fair' track, it's a specialist one, like Bath, Brighton, Epsom and a fair few others with quirks. You don't run a horse there which you think unbalances easily, or which prefers to lead with his right, for example. It favours a 'type' of runner, that's all.

Yes, I thought that was the best punworthy name I'd seen in some time, Songy - brill!
 
But over the 5f sprint does it not unfairly kill your chances almost immediately with the draw Krizon?
 
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