Runners at Sandown & Leicester
Bird for Life probably found the slow early pace (witness the move Ryan made down the back) and the resultant muddling race against her; that she didn't run quite as well as she had done a fortnight ago we can defo forgive given that she has a 40% win and place strike rate from 40 runs, a super little record.
We take Q20Boy and On The Right Track to Sandown this afternoon; and Dreamboat Annie to Leicester.
Q Twenty Boy runs in the five furlong Handicap, the first race on the card; this is one class up from all four races he has run in since the Resumption; but, with a guy like him and as long as he is in the handicap, which he is this afternoon, the real determinate is whether or not the race drops right and he can be produced at the right time (ie late!!); he looked all over the winner at Bath eleven days ago and didn't quite find as much close home as he might have done; he should run well this afternoon and Sandown on the collar the whole way should suit him better than Bath; but it does need to drop right.
Two and a half hours later On The Right Track runs in the ten furlong Handicap; two NRs help but the race, bar perhaps the Ralph Beckett guy at the bottom and the Willie Muir horse at the top, is tightly handicapped. He has been quietly progressive in his two runs since the resumption and in both of these seemed to show that a progressive stamina test would be the way to go and the uphill nature of the finish at Sandown will provide this better than ten furlongs at Salisbury; we are looking forward to seeing him progress further.
Dreamboat Annie goes back up in trip to seven furlongs at Leicester; seven would be as far as she would want to go so there will be something of a change in tactics from Isobel compared to looking to make all over five at Bath; the Mare goes well at Leicester and won there in the Summer of 2018; she has a chance at the weights this pm albeit from just out of the handicap.
Aelecchino's Arc and Misu Pete go to Lingfield Tuesday evening; Evaporust also has an engagement there and is also in at Bath on Thursday