Andy hit the board with a 10-1 winner yesterday and he's got three bets today.
2.00 Chepstow
Although we are only dealing with a fairly small sample size, a first-time out two-year-old winner for George Scott is as rare as hen’s teeth, so the fact that HOLY TIBER (NAP) (best price 7-4) managed to buck that trend on her debut at Doncaster, suggests she could be well above average. Despite being an unconsidered 20-1 poke on her opening salvo, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor impressed with the way she travelled throughout the contest and exhibiting a decent turn of foot between the two and the one, she quickly engulfed her rivals before keeping on nicely inside the final furlong. Not only was the furlong-per-furlong time figure pretty useful (best on straight track that evening), the performance of the second and third subsequently has gone on to give the form plenty of credence, and given that the ground was quite testing on Town Moor that day, she holds a significant advantage over the rest of today’s field on account of the fact she’s already proven under today’s prevailing conditions.
3.30 Chepstow
Conditions at the Welsh venue today’s look sure to be pretty horrid, but that won’t bother SIR BILLY WRIGHT (best price 15-2) one bit as he’s proven many times in the past he revels in a mud bath. Although he’s not the most consistent of performers nowadays, give him genuine soft ground and today’s track and he’s a match for most in this sort of grade and he proved that to be the case on his last visit her when runner-up to one of this afternoon’s main rivals Munfallet last year. Prior to that sound effort, David Evans’ inmate had also scored over 7f under testing conditions over today’s undulating course - thus proving he stays really well - and although he finished well down the field on his latest start at Windsor, the time figure posted by the main protagonists that day suggested the six-year-old didn’t run as badly as first feared.
8.05 Southwell
Although it took VIKING MISTRESS (best price 15-8) 14 attempts to finally get her head in front, now that she has got the monkey off her back, she should have the confidence to go on the rampage throughout the summer months. Racing in the cheek piece, tongue-tie combination for just the second time, Martin Keighley’s charge fairly routed her opponents at Worcester 11 days ago and in running the final circuit time 2.3 seconds quicker than the 122-rated Royal Village, who took the novices’ hurdle earlier on the same card, she gave out the sort of signals that she’s bang on top of her game at present. Although the ground was on the quick side that day, the daughter of Bollin Eric has plenty of decent form on a soft surface and that ability to be flexible on a variety of surfaces should stand her in good stead should the predicted rain get into the ground here this evening.
