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The UK jumps trainer’s championship battle will be a fascinating and before unforeseen element to the final few weeks of the season. I can’t remember in my lifetime there being such a close-knit three-way tussle.
It will mean we get plenty of interesting betting heats, as messrs Mullins, Nicholls and Skelton will run plenty, and there could be opportunities where those three trainers’ runners are overbet. This will certainly be an angle I’ll be looking out for, and one such example crops up on the first day of Ayr’s Scottish Grand National meeting on Friday.
Rather predictably, Catch Him Derry for Dan Skelton has been put in short for the Get Home Safe With Thistle Cabs Handicap Hurdle at 2.20 at Ayr, as the last time we saw him he was chasing home stablemate Gwennie May Boy, who is now rated a chunky 24lbs higher, after two impressive victories at Uttoxeter and Aintree.
But, at a best price of 7/4 in a competitive race, which is a much deeper and higher grade than anything he has contested before, Catch Him Derry is priced up as if he has already improved by a similar margin. Not only is this deeper than his two previous handicaps, but he wasn’t as strong as you’d like in the final furlong on both of those runs since stepping up to around 3m. So with the nature of conditions, opponents and likely tempo due to test every sinew, Catch Him Derry might just have a chink in his stamina.
One horse who has nothing to prove on stamina grounds is Shoeshine Boy, who is available at 14/1 each-way with Bet365 or William Hill for 5 places, which is a lovely 2-star ** Daily Value bet for WhichBookie in my opinion.
Interestingly, in each of his last two seasons since going handicapping, Shoeshine Boy has won on his 7th start of 2021/22 and also 2022/23, and today marks his 7th assignment of 2023/24. This season, he has shown some winning form sooner, by winning his 4th and 5th starts of the campaign and this coinciding with the addition of a tongue-tie.
However, it is his last run at Haydock Park that actually draws me in more, as it is the perfect example of a run being much better than the bare form, and yet the finishing position (5th) meaning that the general impression is that his improvement has come to an end.
I beg to differ, as Shoeshiine Boy was held up and very wide in the run at Haydock Park, in a race where the front 4 and the 6th were all fairly prominent throughout and right towards the inside, on a day when that was very much a vital component.
For Shoeshine Boy to be anywhere near contending swinging for home, was actually an excellent effort, and he should be backed at 14/1 each-way with Bet365 or William Hill for 5 places.
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