What are you backing Today? Part 2

Carlisle 14.53
Teresita (9/2 B365, Betway, Coral) can make amends here for an unlucky fall when looking the likely winner at Sandown in April. That race was won by Venetia’s horse which won impressively yesterday. She needs to find a bit with the Skelton mare on the figures but every chance she will on this ground
I’m deserting La Domaniale having followed her over a few cliffs so she’ll probably go and win now 🫣
 
viking said:
Carlisle 14.53
Teresita (9/2 B365, Betway, Coral) can make amends here for an unlucky fall when looking the likely winner at Sandown in April. That race was won by Venetia’s horse which won impressively yesterday. She needs to find a bit with the Skelton mare on the figures but every chance she will on this ground
I’m deserting La Domaniale having followed her over a few cliffs so she’ll probably go and win now 🫣
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I remember that day Teresita fell as I was on. It was about to hack up. Good luck.

Hoping to see Traprain Law show what he can do in the 1.48. He's a fair price now aswell.

Unlucky Euro, feel for you. Always annoying when that happens.
 
It's my fault really Haggas has a Twitter account but I don't follow it, mainly because it's not in his own name. That said, there was zero coverage of this race prior to it taking part unlike the fucking bumper next week at Flemington which will be shoved down our throats. That's a tad annoying.
 
Marb said:
I remember that day Teresita fell as I was on. It was about to hack up. Good luck.

Hoping to see Traprain Law show what he can do in the 1.48. He's a fair price now aswell.

Unlucky Euro, feel for you. Always annoying when that happens.
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He was running well before the mistake and probably does need proper soft ground anyway. There should still be a race or two in him this season.
 
viking said:
Carlisle 14.53
Teresita (9/2 B365, Betway, Coral) can make amends here for an unlucky fall when looking the likely winner at Sandown in April. That race was won by Venetia’s horse which won impressively yesterday. She needs to find a bit with the Skelton mare on the figures but every chance she will on this ground
I’m deserting La Domaniale having followed her over a few cliffs so she’ll probably go and win now 🫣
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Well done, Vik.

We really should try and pat each other on the back a bit more when we get winners on here.
 
One for tomorrow a rare venture for me onto the sand Helm Rock 10/1 8.30 Chelmsford. Won the previous years London Series final at Kempton to my eye was being laid out for the same race again this year although he got drawn wide, held up in a race where the first 5 turning in were the first 5 home. One run since run again in a qualifier for the same race next year held up at the back never really got into it. When he won the final the previous year he raced from the front and in any of his better runs down the years he's raced more prominently. As a result of, as I saw it being tenderly handled in a couple of races prior and things no going his way since he's tumbled down the handicap. He's been entered up at various AW tracks over the last couple of weeks and withdrawn at the 48 hour stage. If they were planning on just giving him another run around then I doubt they'd be so fussy about running . This time last year he was narrowly beaten in a CL2 off a mark of 98 over this CD he returns on a mark of 82 so 16lb lower in a Cl4. Now he may just be shot but given those couple of runs before the series Final looked dodge to me you can watch them and judge for yourself and given he was only beat in the target race by 4.5 lengths when he had practically no chance given the pace I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. He's right up there on figures and he's top on RPR's so I was surprised to get as big a price as I did. He's got stall 9 but I'm hoping they try and pop him out and lead rather than drop him in last. If he leads I think he's a good thing. Koy Koy is the danger and the one for the exacta.


Good luck lads whatever you're playing.
 
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2.40 Clonmel
Fakir d’Oudaries looks a big price at 3/1. He’s drifted out from 2/1 which puts me off slightly but I reckon he should still have the beating of these based on his December Gold Cup run in December
He’s faced tough tasks in a couple of handicaps this year with 3m probably a bit too far last time.
Solness the danger for me but I’m not convinced that one will stay. That one and Saint Sam could take each other on and set it up for FDO 🤞
 
viking said:
2.40 Clonmel
Fakir d’Oudaries looks a big price at 3/1. He’s drifted out from 2/1 which puts me off slightly but I reckon he should still have the beating of these based on his December Gold Cup run in December
He’s faced tough tasks in a couple of handicaps this year with 3m probably a bit too far last time.
Solness the danger for me but I’m not convinced that one will stay. That one and Saint Sam could take each other on and set it up for FDO 🤞
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Well that was a load of rubbish. Looks like his jumping’s gone to pieces
 
Exeter 2.25
Djelo 9/4
I quite fancied this fellow for the PP and he should be up to this provided he acts on today’s ground. Every chance he will as he ran OK on good ground in the Scilly Isles (nothing was getting to Nickle Back that day)

Mortator last weekend showed Venetia’s horses aren’t just heavy ground plodders
 
Elite Hurdle - I've had a wee pop at Aspire Tower at 5/1 (outsider of three). Favourite Rubaud is officially rated 147 and has to give AT 6lbs but the latter was rated 160 at the end of season 20-21 before a lengthy absence. HdB wouldn't send it over here for a £70k race, I don't think, just for some fresh air.
 
12.07 Kelso tomorrow Romeo Brown

My immediate thoughts when Hills opened with 18-1 earlier were...1. That looks a rick and 2. only another 2 points and it would have been on the longshot thread.

However, 90 mins later and he's now only 17-2 WH and a best-priced 10-1 365.

Course, distance, ground all should be spot on. No rain other than light drizzle forecast, and he can go on GS. Dry night could see it more towards good.

Romeo showed last time over an inadequate 2m1f (although at Carlisle so more like a bit further) that he still had the will, always front two at a good pace and only giving way at the last then fading up that stiff finish after a 218-day break. Even noted as an eyecatcher that day by the RP.

Two to beat on paper. Bois Guillbert may not have shown yet fully what he's got, the Nicky Richards fav Luckie Seven is a Soldier Of Fortune and may be better in this class over further but could well still have enough to win it.

It was 2 years ago that Romeo was winning a 2 and a half Aintree Class 2 from the front at 50-1 (and doing us a favour in the process), and a further 6 months before that winning a Haydock 3-mile C2 in good style (understatement, ran a big field into the ground). 4 out of 5 of last season's runs were on unsuitable proper soft ground. Tom Midgley rides and did so at Carlisle, he should know what to do.

I think the stable will be disappointed if it turns out that haven't found a strong opportunity to at least run very close. As a 10yo, probably won't have too many chances of this type left.
 
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