WOLVERHAMPTON SATURDAY EVENING 15th NOVEMBER

Checking out the handicaps from the Saturday evening fixture at Wolverhampton. Our plan this winter is to keep ticking over on the AW action on Wednesday evenings at Kempton Park and the Saturday evenings at Wolves. 

With 4 maiden events and 2 nurseries we've only 2 handicap contests to have a look through for tonight, so we are going to include the 2yo Handicaps too this time and see if we can find some interesting each way selections rather than focusing on the obvious favs. 

As one of the maiden contests has been split to 2 divisions our first handicap is the opening race at 5:45 over 5f;

17:45 - 5f Handicap,  top weight WEST COAST DREAM [7th] and the bottom one KODAFINE [9th] are the two for me, top one a recent winner and back on AW should cope with most of these and looks good at 8/1. The bottom one gets so much weight must be worth a go and I'll aim to dutch the pair against the field for an early result tonight.

18:15 - 6f Nursery, Not many here tonight preference is for Henry Candy's dual winner SON OF AFRICA.Wins at Windsor and Goodwood this is his first venture on the AW but you would expect him to be well schooled on the surface at home.

19:45 - 1m+ Nursery, lively short priced fav with Godolphin's WINTER QUEEN [WON 6/4]. Am taking a punt by opposing that one with VITA MINA [7th 25/1] who sprang something of a surprise at Chepstow in September but ran two poor races since albeit on ground that might not have been suitable. Gets a sound surface here and 20/1 looks worth a go for the place money. 

21:15 - 1m+ Handicap, we end with a 13 runner handicap and nothing really appeals, the top weight AD VITAM [10th] has at least won recently and could go in again off 4lb higher even though it's a step up in trip should be in his compass. 

Perhaps the bottom one OAK BLUFFS [WON 12/1] can put the large chunks of weight to their advantage on their first try on AW. 


Another successful evening with the 12/1 winner in the last guaranteeing another profit. Next update will be from Kempton Park on Wednesday night.