Tingle Creek and the other Sandown races Sat 9th Dec

Busy kicking myself here for not taking the 5/2 Fox Norton on Tuesday night
From a sporting point of view I’d love to have seen Douvan run and his absence is disappointing if fairly predictable


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Put this in the what are you backing today thread as hadn't seen this thread for Saturdays action.

Just a quick one as I haven't much time was looking at the December handicap hurdle on Saturday actually at William H Bonney who I automatically assumed would hold a decent chance but something else has caught my eye in the shape of Exitas who has 2 entries one for Sunday but he's already jocked up for Saturday and its the bigger prize. He's been going well in chases of late and won a decent handicap at Ascot by 7L. His hurdle mark is 8lb lower than his chase mark and with Mitchell Bastyan booked he gets another 5lb off. Corals are 14/1 and although I haven't been through the race with a fine tooth comb that has to be all kinds of wrong. Had a decent bet at that price.
 
Tanlic said:
I suppose Danny Mullins will be riding Brain Power again? not cool he simply isn't good enough when you can have Nico on board
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David not Danny Mullins - the former is a much better jockey than the latter IMO. I see archie was there before me.
 
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Mitchell Bastyan who was originally jocked up on not only Exitas but another of my interests for tomorrow in Hollybush Henry has been replaced by 7lb claimer Daniel Sansom I can't say I'm too familar with him but hoping he's going to have a big day tomorrow. His record over hurdles doesn't look too bad at a glance so I'm hopeful.

Just briefly Hollybush Henry finished 4th behind Beer Goggles at Aintree so the form has been franked slightly. Hollybush would of traded very short in running travelled really well and looked like the winner for a long way before tiring late on. I'm hoping that a furlong less on better ground will help him see out his race a bit better and hopefully this isn't as strong a race. He's not much of a price now but has a good chance I think.
 
Euronymous said:
I think 8/13 FN and 7/2 Politologue is a slightly too big a price differential.
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Agree with this. Mimimum of fuss in the Haldon Gold Cup. Will be primed for this with Fox Norton perhaps looking to have a few pound spare for the King George. I think he is a bet.
 
Second inspection at Sandown at 10am but they are optimistic that racing will go ahead. Frost covers have done their job so far - Andrew Cooper.

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I'm on Ar Mad in the Tingle Creek. I can't help thinking he's ranked better than Sire De Grugy at home. If he's as good as I hope, I think Fox Norton (which I backed to win last year's Champion Chase) will have to be as good as the market believes.
 
That was a great race and an impressive win for Sceau Royal, looking the horse I thought I was backing for the Champion Hurdle.
 
Desert Orchid said:
That was a great race and an impressive win for Sceau Royal, looking the horse I thought I was backing for the Champion Hurdle.
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He was all the value in the race 5lb better off with North Hill Harvey - Thats why I put him up in DG's competition that never was but did the bet anyway and have a double up with Blaklion just need Cloudy Dream to perform now as Le Breuil let e down and other is n/r.
 
He's a little star Sceau Royal and was very impressive but I don't care what anyone says David Mullins GN winner or not was more of a hinderance than a help there. He was like an accident waiting to happen all the way round
 
Tanlic said:
He's a little star Sceau Royal and was very impressive but I don't care what anyone says David Mullins GN winner or not was more of a hinderance than a help there. He was like an accident waiting to happen all the way round
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You didn't know the difference between David and Danny during the week.
 
Fox Norton ran on well today and he won the Melling over 2m4f eased down but Kempton at KG pace?

It will be like someone walking into a plate glass window when he hits that invisible wall.

His chance of staying must be remote at best IMO he is a proper 2 miler with limited ability.

He has nowhere near enough class to win a King George and the decision to go if the do can only be Sizing John influenced.

Give them 10/10 for trying but we went through the same thing with Sizing Europe and it never worked then and it won't work now
 
You mean like someone who could win a Gold Cup for him ? :blink:

Robbie Power has strike rates of 26% and 37% over the last 2 years in the UK

I can't think of any race he should have won that he lost but am happy if you want to refresh my memory
 
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