A Bet At Last!

There is one bet for today:

8.40 Doncaster - Best Prospect - 1pt each way (available at 7/1 generally)

This horse is a bridle horse which always travels well in its races but invariably fails to deliver at the business end. That said it has won 6 times on the flat and twice over hurdles so it can hardly be called a perennial loser!! Jamie Spencer gets on really well with the horse and has won four times on it and today the horse runs over a course and distance that it has been successful over before and gets the soft ground that it requires. The horse has won off marks higher than this on 4 occasions and ran a fair race last time whern 3rd at Newcastle just under three weeks ago.

The race does have a competitive look to it and you can give chances to Charlie Tokyo and Rangefinder now they have conditions which should suit but on the whole it faces a number of rivals who might not like the conditions as much as the selection. The horse will be played late and hopefully it will condescend to finish the job off if it gets close enough.

Elsewhere on the day I was quite keen on Danny Zuko in the 2.30 Cartmel but this horse really needs the ground on the fast side and with doubts as to how it will be riding then at 4/1 I can't get involved. Definitely one to keep an eye on when things come in it's favour though!

Over at Bath in the 8.55 race I thought Espy could go close and looks like it is ready to return to the winners enclosure any time soon , however there are one or two others in the field that look like they may have been laid out for the race, Heaven for example, and at odds of around 6/1 I am happy to watch.

Good luck if you play

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