2018 KEMPTON PARK RACES -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #6 4th APRIL

Hope you had a good Easter break, we enjoyed the AW Championship day at Lingfield on Good Friday and now it's back to the regular midweek action here with the Pontefract season also up and running yesterday (sadly the meeting was abandoned) so we are busy. This blog primarily follows the progress of handicap races on the Wednesday night races here at Kempton Park racecourse in Surrey. We've started the year reasonably well although it's a bit up and down this is only meeting six. There are usually 4-5 handicap races covered and some Lay bets too with separate totals recorded to SP throughout the year. 

We are now into April and this will still only be week number six, though we began the year with a loss we clawed most of that back in week four and then had a wipe-out in the last meeting so now down -11.5 points to SP, early days and there is a long way to go but if we had recorded results to the prices taken we'd be in a much better situation, alas we record to starting prices. 

As we continue to focus on the handicap contests for each Wednesday evening meeting we will also occasionally include a feature listed or conditions event too if one is available. Keeping records of our endeavours to a 1 point level stake at SP, naturally we will personally be looking to get better odds than this but for the purpose of these results here we simply record SP returns only.

We will keep up with our occasional lay opportunities of short priced favourites too which wasn't too bad last year with 18 from 28 (64%) short price lays throughout the season. Naturally we will keep these results separately from the handicap figures, off to a disappointing start this season though and as the favs are winning we are currently 2/5 going forwards with these for 2018. 

This Wednesday is meeting number six for the 2018 season and we are expecting an eight race card tonight with seven handicaps following the division of the finale to enjoy the action will commence at 17:45 with our first Handicap over six furlongs.

Here's a link to this Wednesday's race card; RACECARD

The going on the polytrack surface is described as 'standard to slow' and the current weather forecast for this Wednesday is for a cold winters day with more chance of showers expected the top temperature will only be about 9C by the time the meeting gets underway.

Here are our selections for tonight, bit rushed so only having time to confirm selections for this evening;

17:45 -- 6f Handicap.
ISTANBUL PASHA [11th 14/1]  /  TERRI RULES [4th 20/1].

18:15 -- 1m Handicap.
RENNY'S LADY [Non Runner]  /  VERSTAPPEN  [2nd 9/2].

19:15 -- 7f Handicap.
CHESS MOVE  [7th 14/1]  /  TIG TOG  [3rd 16/1].

19:45 -- 7f Handicap.
CURIOUS FOX  [3rd 7/1]  /  STOSUR  [7th 16/1].

20:15 -- 1m 2f 219y Handicap.
EXCEEDING POWER  [WON 5/2]  /  ARCTIC SEA  [5th 11/4]. 

20:45 -- 1m 3f 219y Handicap (Div One).
THAHAB IFRAJ  [6th 5/1]  /  TAKEITFROMALADY  [10th 11/1].

21:15 -- 1m 3f 219y Handicap (Div Two).
ILEY BOY  [2nd 11/8F]  /  FEEL THE VIBES  [6th 10/1].


Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 4.5 points.

Results will appear here later on Wednesday night. We seek to recover from our current deficit of -11.5 points. Just the sole winner so far, a frustrating number of places though losing another 9.5 points thus we now behind by -21 points.

LAYS -- 2/5 if we have one or two Lays tonight they will be updated here also. 

Tonight's Lays;
None.

Our seventh meeting here at Kempton Park will be next week 11th April so see you then.