Todays Racing -----England--Ireland

[2017diary]

The 1.40 at Carl[[sle looks a stroll in the park for Letos, and it's hard to see why he's still 2/1,imo.

and bigger on the exchanges - GL today reet

 

[luckyme]

1340 Carlisle Letos

Won a Listed Handicap Hurdle last time out at a price of 11’s.
Hard race to gauge as there was a heavy favourite at 6/5 who finished 9th and only one horse from the field has gone on to win – Staffordshire Knot who’s won twice since.
That win was over 2m4f off a mark of 119 and the weight carried was 10st 8lbs.
Steps up to 3m 1f today, a Class drop to Class 2, off a mark of 131 and has been allocated top weight of 12 st.
So, it’s a big 1stone 4lbs extra on his back and a rise of 12lbs in the handicap and he has to carry it over 5 furlongs further.
The Sire has only been operating for a couple of years, and his Hurdle record is 8/81.
As far as hurdlers go, the record when over 2m 1f is 2/35 so the return isn’t guaranteed.
An anomaly is that the progeny when carrying over more than 11st 7lbs are 0/18.
Breeding does raise a few questions about this race.
Trends wise don’t help its cause either.
Top weights have a record of 0/10 and favourites 2/10.
This is going to be a lot harder that the race last time and local knowledge from horse/trainers and jockeys may prove key with that uphill finish.
Opposable for me as it has it all to prove.

 

[2017diary]

GL lucky, a case has been made for both

 

[luckyme]

Yes I seem to recall a video floating around from RACINGUK, tony said this horse would be aimed at a handicap at Navan in a few weeks time and it hosed up so it maybe a really good horse.