Q20 Boy at Leicester & Monks Mead at Sandown
Tomorrow Day ran respectably at Yarmouth going on throughout the second half of the race without ever quite looking like he would get to the front two; still difficult to know the right trip because yesterday's race was pretty much a mirror image of his performance at Leicester over a furlong shorter; but, if we can get the race enviornment right, he is capable of winning in this grade.
That Ocean Potion needs to come down the
handicap is probably the right conclusion to draw from his run at Ffos
Las; and perhaps go up in trip with less use made of him on an easier
surface; he defo seemed to want to lug left handed on the ground.
A tightly handicapped six furlong
Apprentice Handicap at Leicester for Q20 Boy and Alicia; not much
between all seven but we have as good a chance as any of them and the combination have been in spiffing form since the turn of the year
and particularly so since the onset of the Summer; expect him to run
really well this evening and he has an excellent and really competitive
chance.
Monks Mead's style of running makes him the ideal vehicle to come up the Sandown Hill over
eight furlongs; he is a really consistent, really reliable guy and off
64 has a fair bit better chance of getting in the frame this evening
than the eights and nines that are floating around might imply; expect
to see him on the pace or just close behind it from the start and to be
powering along resolutely in the last furlong when the hill kicks in;
he should run well.
The pair of them could be joined up with
what might be a potential Gold Cup horse running off 142 in the Galway
Plate; the seven year old Perceval Lagallois has been backed
consistently since the declarations, including overnight, and he might
make something as worth watching as Searchingtheblues on the turn in at
Wolverhampton Monday as he goes from fence to fence just after 7pm this
evening. And if you really wanted to chance your arm a Lucky 15
encompassing So They Tell Me in the staying Hurdle at Galway; he is
another person who is both terribly well handicapped and really
progressive.
No runners tomorrow.