The thing tonight looking ominous 18/1 now had a pull in the weights with Grand Canal for 1/2l at chelmsford and that ones been backed into 7/2 fav and still getting backed,so maybe horse isn't right yet..otherwise would be backed just on that formline alone..
And of course Grand canal hacks up and backed into fav...
Newbury Spring mile Sunday 3.55
Nugget 8/1 sportsbook/skybet/ppowwr 15/2 hills/betfred.
Watering at Newbury so wanted to see how the going was today,at the moment as it should be good but drying out,i just hope that they don't water again and it's faster on sunday have looked through the race and there doesn't appear to be much form on rattling ground although lots of 4yr olds unexposed...Nuggets had seven runs,his early season run at Donny last season was first win,looked one to follow in low 80s but got beat both next time up runs as fav,so started tol look a little unreliable..It's most interesting run was whe winning at Newmarket in a small field where the race was fast by 1.45 seconds,was by far the quicker race on the day,not one other race went under standard that day including a class 4 handicap wion by Al Rufaa rated 85 that won by 3 1/2ls yet was over two seconds slower than Nuggets race,the runner up Yes My boy has gone on to be rated 101,90 in the Newmarket race although on the aw and the 3rd Cognac 2l behind won its next race in a 0-100 and now rated 98..Nugget has run already this season a small field at Notts only a 0-95,never got much of a run in that race but hadn't run for 9 months..This ios obviously a bigstep up in class but if the ground does ride really quick and they don't overwater perhaps the horse will be shown to be better than current mark of 92,based on that run at Newmarket could well be..
2.45 Greenham
Alkumait 5/1 ppower/sportsbook 5places
This horse looks all about fast ground,just the four runs and on third run here over 6fs looked his best run and looked a bit special,winning over 6fs off a really fast pace the race was fast by 1.9 seconds was actually faster than the older horse group 3 horses on the day he won going away
and looked value for more than that win..Then last time out ran in the Dewhurst was last beaten 27ls,strange thing was the betting that day going off 12/1 the horse he slaughtered in that 6f race at Newbury went off 9/1 and that finished 7th while Devilwala was 4th only beaten 2 3/4ls and that had finished 5 3/4ls behind Alkumait in that Newbury race..So that race giot franked even though he was last,the trainer saud he wantrd fast griund the ground that day was gd/sft verging on soft ground although wasn't terrible,what it does tell you is Alkumait anythung slower than gd/gdfm will be no good..A very interesting runner based on that Newbury run and still open to loads of impriovement as long as waters not chucked on.
