Andy Holding is back with two tips for today's action from Windsor.
15:50 Windsor
MIDREAM (NAP) (best price 5-2) shaped with a huge amount of promise on her debut at Thirsk and with expected improvement to come, she can put it up to today’s main rival, Silveretta, who probably isn’t the most bomb-proof short-priced favourite ever seen.
Shifting slightly to her right as the gates flew back at the Yorkshire venue, Ed Walker’s filly soon made up the ground to race handily behind the pace set by Willow Baby down to halfway and from that juncture she certainly held every chance.
However, despite seeing her race out really well, she didn’t quite have the knowhow of previous scorer, Mezzo Soprano, and she ended up chasing the winner in vain.
Looking at the data from the race 21 days ago, not only was the overall time figure the best on the card, the final three furlongs were run significantly quicker than the other three C&D contests so despite running green, she clearly ran to a particularly high standard for a filly lacking experience.
Sure to be much sharper today, she will probably need to be in the early stages in order to keep tabs on her main market rival who is likely to lead from stall one, but providing she can keep in touch, with the Balding filly, this half-sister to smart sprinter Vadream will hopefully be a position to have a bid for glory inside the final two furlongs.
16:20 Windsor
The combination of hanging down the camber and dropping back in trip was enough to derail MREMBO’s (best price 8-1) hat trick bid at Epsom last time out, but now heading back to a C&D that allowed Jonathan Portman’s filly to shine previously, she has a reasonably decent shot of bouncing back to her best form.
An all-the-way winner at Bath back in August, the daughter of Albaasil replicated those tactics over today’s C&D just a few days later but, unable to get to the front at the Surrey venue last time, she was never in a position whereby she looked likely to repeat the dose.
Very likely to assume the front running role based on today’s pace map, the four-year-old looks well positioned to outrun her morning odds.
