KEMPTON PARK RACES 2017 -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #3 1st FEBRUARY

Third week into our new season here at Kempton and follows the sad news over the weekend that Many Clouds passed away after his stunning win over Thistlecrack at Cheltenham. We usually do Wednesday evenings here and for some reason my fixture list shows it's an evening meeting however we are looking at an afternoon card instead. Not put off we will write it up all the same for this week. 

Another small victory in our second fixture means we still ahead and look forward to a successful season. We will aim to improve on last seasons successful year recording bets from all the handicap contests held on the Wednesday evenings and the occasional lays too.

All our results will be recorded to SP and having ended the last year on a profit we started off the first week with a small win of +7.75 points. It's a start. 

As always our focus will be on the handicap contests for each meeting but will occasionally include a feature listed or conditions event too. Keeping records of our endeavours to a 1pt level stake at SP, naturally we will personally be looking to get better odds but for the purpose of the results we record to SP.

We will keep up with our occasional lay opportunities of short priced favourites too, once again will keep these results separately from the handicap figures. 

This week is our third meeting for 2017 and we are expecting a seven race card on offer, where we will be presented with five handicap contests to review. This afternoon's action will commence at 14:20 with a 1m handicap. 

Below is a link to this Wednesday's race card;

AFTERNOON RACECARD

The going on the polytrack surface is described as Standard to slow once more and the current weather forecast is for a wet showery day with a max temperature of about 11C when the meeting gets underway and remain cold with showers due throughout the afternoon.

Here are our selections for this afternoon's handicap races (Sorry but owing to lack of time am only able to put up the selections this week);

14:20 -- 1m Handicap (3yo).
BEAUCHAMP OVAL [3rd 8/1]  /  LONDON GRAMMAR [12th 100/1].

15:50 -- 7f Fillies Handicap.
JACQUOTTE DELAHAYE [WON 7/1].

16:20 -- 7f Handicap.
LEXINGTON TIMES [2nd 6/1]  /  ANONYMOUS JOHN [7th 14/1]. 

16:50 -- 1m 3f Handicap (London Middle Distance Series).
Changing my original selection as The Gay Cavalier is a non runner, the first in this series for 2017 where DAISY BOY [6th 7/1] a regular over this sort of trip for his claiming jockey and ZABEEL STAR [4th 5/1] who ran well in defeat on his last start and won here on his previous outing. 

17:20 -- 2m Handicap.
Our selection for the staying finale today is OYSTER CARD [5th 4/1] has a chance off the lowest weight today while YASIR [8th 10/1] who won over 2m at Wolverhampton last month should also go well. 

Staked -- 9 points
Returns -- 8 points.

Results for this afternoon will be updated throughout the day and we aim to improve on our opening profit of +7.75 points. We have had a good winner and couple of places so far so we not going to be too far away. Alas no further success so we make a small 1 point loss today leaving us +6.75 points to carry over to next week.

Lays -- 0/1. None today. 

Our next Wednesday evening meeting at this course will be on 8th February so see you next week.