Nicky's going to have a sore head tomorrow
Good shout Grey - hope you took some of the early 12's Irish Buccaneer!That sounds interesting but this is not the worst of bumpers, Martin, far from it (even if Vrai Vert's RPR looks to be at least a stone too high). The top three in the betting all have obvious chances and the Hobbs horse, Irish Buccaneer, was born with the words "Bred to win bumpers" printed on his rump. A race to treat with caution, methinks.
18:50C Tiqris @ 7/1. Saw this horse of Charlie Brookes dot up for Tom Lacey in a Maiden P2P at Whitfield last month, nothing remarkable about that in itself but he was brought to a standstill by a horrific mistake at the second last but recovered well enough appear to be going twice as fast as his rivals approaching the last which he flew and was going away at the finish to score by 8-10 lengths. He didn't beat a heck of a lot that day but he looked a really really useful type and certainly the sort who'd be capable of going close in a Bumper (wrote about him on "The Pointing Thread" at the time).
Martin
Sutton Storm (5.20 Chepstow)
I like Timocracy in the lucky last at Windsor tomorrow. Plenty of hold up horses in the race and not many who will want to be up there early doors. It could mean Timocracy can burn his rivals off with a uncontested lead. He still looks really well handicapped to me, Windsor form figures read 12 and someone clearly agrees with me as he's being backed early doors.
Someone must of done the double hopefully
Windsor 5.00 Sugar Beet @ 16/1
16/1 with 365, even restricted is worth taking IMO. Not only been running over 6f recently, which is probably a tad too far but in races beyond her grade.
Comes her only 2lb higher than her last a/w h/cap win.
Crap, forgot to look at this thread. Well done on both of those.