After picking up a 4/1 winner yesterday, Andy Holding is back with three tips for today's action, including a NAP at Market Rasen.
14:50 Market Rasen
There is no substitute for class and that moto is very much the order of the day where HANG IN THERE (best price 8/1) is concerned and he is strongly fancied to make a bold fist of casting aside the impost of top weight.
A five-time winner during a productive time over fences, Emma Lavelle’s gelding returned to hurdles at Aintree last time and, after setting a decent pace from the start, he just found one too good in the shape of the back-on-song Boombawn.
Clearly in fine shape on the evidence of that effort, this proper summer jumping type who loves fast ground can further enhance his record around today’s venue that reads 221.
15:20 Market Rasen
BETTY BALOO (NAP) (best price 2/1) arrives here in the form of her life and following one of her most impressive victories of her career over fences last time out, Tim Easterby’s mare can make the switch back to hurdles a successful one.
On a role since February, she followed up her Catterick win with a 15-length romp over today’s C&D two months later and despite facing her stiffest task to date, she repeated the dose in Class company on her return visit 28 days ago.
Staying on powerfully in the closing stages of a soundly run affair, she lowered the colours of many in-form chasers and with the well-beaten fourth going on to boost the form at Uttoxeter yesterday, the numbers she posted in victory appear a totally reliable source.
Other than an uncharacteristically poor show at Sedgefield during the winter, the daughter of Schiaparelli has hardly ever let her connections down and with a career record at today’s Lincolnshire venue that reads 2211, the seven-year-old can keep those impressive stats firmly intact.
19:20 Haydock
ABSOLUTELYFLAWLESS (best price 3/1) looks right back to her best on the evidence of her last two performances and David Loughnane’s filly can continue the good work in a race that should be run to suit.
The daughter of Ribchester returned to winning ways with a game display at Wolverhampton two starts ago and she almost followed up at Chester 12 days later, this time narrowly failing to get up in the closing stages after being some way behind at halfway.
Posting her fastest speed figure of her career despite beaten on the Roodee, she is now beginning to look like the filly who landed the Lily Agnes as a two-year-old and with a run style (usually held up) that is often rewarded at today’s Merseyside venue, she can swoop to conqueror late in the piece.
