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The 2026 "Friday Night Live" Thread

Ian_Davies

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Your Favourite Uncle Smart Arse has always been "down with the kids" and, although visiting an excellent curry buffet with "Dungheap" off TRF shortly after YFUSA's frankly-brilliant (1.25 million Central TV viewers can't be wrong) appearance on "Scam" in 2004 is the closest YFUSA had ever got (and may ever get) to Dunstall Park, TH's resident deity is full of enthusiasm for this project.

For, inbetween the DJs (of which "MC" W. A. L-Sworth is rumoured to be one) and the speed dating (in which "The Big W" is also rumoured to be getting involved), there are some decent handicaps - a 28-large C3 and a trio of 18k C4s.

The 48-hour declarations are on Wednesday morning, excitement about this card is mandatory and the first ten forumites YFUSA can stand the sight of to DM YFUSA will receive the YFUSA Lucky 15 for these contests free and gratis (as per usual).

There is absolutely no need to thank YFUSA for this - anything to do with Wolverhampton makes YFUSA feel he's virtually on "the manor" of King Daniel I, the constitutional monarch of the Midlands, and that notion alone is thanks enough.
 
Friday Night Live Series dates:
January 9 Wolverhampton
February 6 Newcastle
February 20 Southwell
March 20 Wolverhampton
March 27 Newcastle

The full schedule is to hand and an early indicator of the entrepreneurial genius of Dom Matcham.

None of this summer turf "dahn sarf" nonsense for Dom - the more northern, the more unseasonal and the more bleak the weather the better.

Maybe no one told him race meetings tend to be staged outdoors.

I can't wait tbh and the quality of the actual racing at Wolves this Friday will more than do for me.
 
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Aah, set at northern racecourses. Expect to see young ladies wearing boob tubes on a minus 5 night at Newcastle, then. And fellas in their ‘Lacoste’s’.
 
Long time since I lived there or was even in Newcastle for a night out, but I'm well versed, and having lived and worked and visited lots of places in the UK, in it's hey day at least it made every where else I've been seem a bit diet coke shall we say.
 
The declarations are in and this is sure to be a great night of televised action.

I am currently trying to talk Walsworth out of riding up there on his Penny Farthing to propose to Megan Nicholls - Walsworth's rationale being that her father is in no position to disapprove of an age-gap relationship - and, as soon as Walsworth sees sense and abandons the notion, I'm going to get knee deep in Tapeta sorting out the winners.
 
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I wouldn't lay 33/1 Dyrholaey in the 5.30.

It didn't run too clever last time out and it's got a wide draw, but it ticks every other box in my book.

I'm not saying it will win - and it could open even bigger elsewhere - but 33/1 with Hills is "the wrong price" in my book as I'd have it half that.
 
The 6 p.m. is the only race on the card I’m trying to solve on Friday.

Francesco Baracca can’t be favourite over this trip. It last won over 1m4f 15 months ago off 8 lb lower. It’s drawn 1, so perhaps it can make it a real test, but I’m always against horses that have been running regularly over 2m coming back to 12f. I don’t know how this is 5/2.

The 4yos don’t make any appeal. Gemmari is the best of them, but the course-and-distance win was 16 lb ago, and it has gone up in trip twice after being well beaten over 12f at Kempton off a 7 lb lower mark. 9/2 is ridiculous.

The one I like is the consistent mare Aiming High, who has had two relatively quiet runs, staying on both times to get a pound back from the handicapper. She has won off 70, 71 and 72. She’s nicely drawn in stall 5 and, with stayers in the race, she can sit in off a good pace.

That’s just my thinking, but I suspect this race is priced very badly. I’ve taken 11/1 Aiming High.
 
I’ve added Market House at 11/1, essentially dutching it with Aiming High.
He had wind surgery after pulling up over hurdles, then made an eye-catching comeback over 9f at Wolverhampton. He won very well off 5 lb lower at Brighton on his last run on the flat. Probably the most interesting runner in the race.
 
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I wouldn't lay 33/1 Dyrholaey in the 5.30.

It didn't run too clever last time out and it's got a wide draw, but it ticks every other box in my book.

I'm not saying it will win - and it could open even bigger elsewhere - but 33/1 with Hills is "the wrong price" in my book as I'd have it half that.
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Reckon 16/1's too big for Bretson in this.
Came from the clouds to beat good horses i,n a Southwell 0-100 lto on his 1st run for Tony Carroll,and is welll drawn to repeat the feat.
 
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Reckon 16/1's too big for Bretson in this.
Came from the clouds to beat good horses i,n a Southwell 0-100 lto on his 1st run for Tony Carroll,and is welll drawn to repeat the feat.
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I've taken 16/1 Betsen. Only getting 2lbs for winning when the yard was out of form is fair lenient. How many runners in the race on Friday could run a 109 horse to a neck in a listed race?

Full Result 2.17 Navan (IRE) | 27 April 2024 | Racing Post

Full Race Result from the 2.17 at Navan on 27th April 2024.
www.racingpost.com www.racingpost.com
 
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