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The midweek ante-post 12/1 each-way bet on Coastguard Station for the Boylesports Choose Wisely Handicap Chase at Aintree at 2.05 on Saturday is in pretty good shape, and I wouldn’t put any one off going in at the current 5/1 each-way if not already on, as the race really does look like it should shape up perfectly for him.
However, so too will it suit the once-classy and potentially-resurgent Grey Diamond, who has shaped very nicely in good races the last twice, and so should also backed at 14/1 each-way with William Hill.
The race won by Primoz at Wetherby 3 weeks ago was run in a good time, and the runner-up Pay The Piper has since hosed up at Kelso. For a long way it looked as if Grey Diamond might play a hand in the finish, only to have to sidestep a faller at the third last.
Next up at Aintree is the Boylesports Grand Sefton Handicap Chase at 2.40, and the first race of the season over the famous National fences. The ground will be watered to ensure it’s safe of course, but will be the fastest it’s been over this course for a fair while, given the recent dry weather.
For that reason, I think the potentially smart Idalko Bihoue is worth a bet at 10/1 each-way for 4 places with Boylesports, as he goes extremely well fresh, is best on a sounder surface, and would have had the option of next weekend’s Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham. As he runs here, I’d take it as a hint that the Twiston-Davies camp feel he has/will take to the fences very well, and this race doesn’t look the deepest renewal.
Given that last comment, I also think it’s worth having a play on top weight Authorized Art at 20/1 each-way with William Hill for 4 places, as he massively caught the eye over hurdles down at 2m at Kempton Park in his prep run for this.
Given how much Willie Mullins likes sending horses over for the Topham Chase in the spring, I’m surprised we have never seen Authorized Art over the fences before, as I’ve long felt he would suit them. Gary and Josh Moore have perhaps inherited a horse ready to show his best.
Over at Wincanton, the ante-post 6/1 recommendation about Lord Accord in the Badger Beers Handicap Chase at 3.35 looks in good shape also, and I’m happy to leave that race as it stands.
But earlier on the card there are some decent opportunities too – firstly in the BetMGM Richard Barber Memorial Mares’ Handicap Hurdle at 1.45 at Wincanton, where the 22/1 each-way with Paddy Power or William Hill about Porter In The Park looks an oversight.
Yes, the race looks deep on numbers, but given the improvement Porter In The Park showed this summer in deeper waters and against male opposition, that she now returns to mares’ only company and drops in grade off the back of nice prep run after a recent late summer break, suggests to me that she shouldn’t be anything like 22/1 for a yard beginning to hit top gear.
The market for the Boodles Rising Stars’ Novices Chase at 2.23 at Wincanton has predictably sided with the obvious types who might improve, like Handstands and Insurrection. But they’ll surely have to prove they can live with perhaps the classiest, unluckiest novice chaser in training, Soul Icon.
Given his body of work over fences, I genuinely think Soul Icon should be favourite for this race, and so should be backed as a 2-star ** Daily Value selection for WhichBookie at a general 4/1 each-way.
13:20 Doncaster – Wentworth Stakes (Listed) 6f
I think Room Service is the right favourite but I’m worried about him getting caught for pace and then just not quite getting there, but if he’s able to travel into things then he’s already posted RPR’s beyond this field but his penultimate start in the Ayr Gold Cup he got 1lb from KORKER who raced pretty much next to him for most of the race but was always in front of him. The run after from Room Service was eye-catching and being just a 3yo he’s entitled to improve even more, but I thought that KORKER having form behind Starlust that won at the Breeders Cup albeit over 5f, looks overpriced.
Soft ground currently but will ride tacky and KORKER goes on anything, finished last season with two wins and second so seems to keep up his standard throughout the season and hopefully can uphold the form which saw him finish in front of Room Service again.
KORKER – 0.5 STAR EW
14:05 Aintree – Handicap Chase 2m
Master Chewy was just denied in this 12 months ago and he followed the same route that IMPERIAL SAINT takes here, by landing the Novices Limited Handicap Chase at the October meeting. He was well backed when winning here last month and while the runner up was delivered too late, that’s the type that horse is, so it was a good win, but by no means a gimme to think he’d follow in next time. However this looks a weaker race and with the impression there is more to come now, with the same ground underfoot again, he’s by far the most likely winner.
IMPERIAL SAINT – 1 STAR WIN
14:23 Wincanton – Rising Stars Novices’ Chase (Grade 2) 2m 4f
A really nice race this and a starting point for the very exciting HANDSTANDS who was well beaten in Cheltenham but Ben Pauling still thinks you can draw a line through that race as it was one run too many.
We hear, anything they do over hurdles is a bonus all the time, but this lad was running in his point to point as a 4yo and just over 12 months ago. He took the Sidney Banks at Huntingdon when in receipt of 5lbs from Jango Baie and that horse then ran second in the Grade 2 premier novices hurdle in Kelso then second to KATEIRA in the Grade 3 handicap at Aintree seeing his mark now rise to 146.
Simply put, I think HANDSTANDS is probably already a 140’s horse and should be improving a stone for fences this season. He’s 2 years younger than his rivals who consist of Soul Icon who is 0 from 7 since chasing, Boombawn who is 1 from 5, a 10 year old Glynn who will at least enjoy the ground and then his main danger Insurrection who ran well above his hurdle form on Chasing debut for Paul Nicholls, for all that he did make some bad jumps.
I’d have the winner from those two, but I really do think HANDSTANDS has the potential to be one of the best British novices this season, and if Insurrection was going to be in the same sphere, as a horse who goes well fresh, he should have won last time out.
DAVE – HANDSTANDS 1.5 STAR WIN
14:40 Aintree – Grand Sefton 2m 5f
PERCUSSION has placed in the last two running’s of this from marks of 133 and 128 so the 129 he runs from here looks ripe for another bold show.
Frero Banbou has a 4lb swing having finished a couple of lengths behind PERSCUSSION last year although either have won since 2022. Adam Wedge has renewed his partnership with PERCUSSION, and they’ve ran well together twice this summer. Might just be a placed runner again, but with 4 places up for grabs I’d feel fairly safe in backing him EW and he’s seemed relentless to the line so if he can travel into things a bit easier he definitely could win this.
PERCUSSION – 0.5 STAR EW
15:10 Doncaster – Gillies Fillies Stakes (Listed) 1m 2f
DANIELLE ran a blinder behind MAX VEGA last time out in heavy ground and I know she’d bred to enjoy cut in the ground but that was even too much for her I’d say. Soft ground now and dropping back to 1m2f with 3lbs received by Diamond Rain mean I can see why she’s favourite.
I would have her a little shorter than she is, but there’s been no winning favourite from the last 10 running’s and The Gosden’s haven’t won this race in it’s history so those are considered in the price now I think.
Diamond Rain could probably be excused for her run behind Port Fairy but it’s interesting that the third behind her in her listed win was also in that race and was well beaten herself so that form might not be working out. DANIELLE was also in the Port Fairy race and was only beaten 5 lengths which upheld the form line she has with with You Got To Me and then she had Kalpana just a few lengths ahead of her too.
Treasure has form just behind her from Lingfield and she too ran well last time out off a break at this trip, but I’d still think that DANIELLE is looking like a much better horse now.
DANIELLE – 1 STAR WIN
15:45 Doncaster – November Handicap 1m 4f
8 of the last 10 winners have been single figures and all 10 have been 10/1 or shorter so shouldn’t be too hard to find the winner, right?
MASTER BUILDER has William Buick back on board and last time out under Daniel Tudhope made a good move but flattened out with the front two in running finishing first and second in the end. Suffered a bit of interference, but not a result affecting issue, and back in trip here to 1m 4f. A repeat of that run would probably see him win this so at 8/1 and at least 4 places up for grabs he looks one to be on side with.
MASTER BUILDER – 0.5 STAR EW
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