Welcome to June and with the 2018 World Cup about to get underway tomorrow we will be updating details of all the England games and lets hope there are more of these than usual. Next week will also be Royal Ascot and again will be updating each day of that too. In the meantime this blog will continue to follow the progress of handicap races on the Wednesday night races here at Kempton Park racecourse in Surrey. We've started the year a bit behind now although it's a bit up and down this is only meeting eleven. There are usually 4-5 handicap races covered and some Lay bets too with separate totals recorded to SP throughout the year. We are ready for week number eleven, and as we head towards the the half way stage of the year we sadly find ourselves down -39 points to SP, would be nice to start turning this around and there is still a long way to go but if we had recorded results to the prices taken we'd be in a slightly better situation but we need some winners soon and 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 but a successful lay last week means we are currently 6/11 going forwards with these for 2018.
This Wednesday is meeting number eleven for the 2018 season and we are expecting a seven race card tonight with six handicaps to enjoy the action will commence at 18:10 with an Apprentice Handicap over a mile trip.
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 warmer day so have a good night without the threat of rain for a change a top temperature will be about 22C by the time the meeting gets underway.
Here are our handicap selections for tonight, with a lot on this week it's only the selections for now;
18:10 -- 1m Apprentice Handicap.
KINGSTON KURRAJONG [WON 6/5F] / MACH ONE [4th 9/2].
18:40 -- 6f Handicap (3yo).
Jamie Osborne runs VEGAS BOY [3rd 14/1] here tonight who was a dual winner last autumn and has now had a wind operation. It's possible that there is still some improvement in him and worth a chance off this mark. Along with AIRSHOW [WON 13/8F] who is another dual winner including around this course and only 2lb higher tonight.
19:40 -- 1m 2f 219yds Handicap (3yo).
BREAKFAST [Non Runner] / STIRLING VALUE [7th 50/1].
20:10 -- 6f Fillies Handicap.
A course and distance winner last year HACKNEY ROAD [WON 2/1F] is high on the short list tonight with only seven declared for this. Will aim to get on VERY HONEST [4th 7/1] too a regular runner but infrequent winner she is still worth a bet off this mark.
20:40 -- 7f Handicap.
GLORY OF PARIS [11th 20/1] / UBLA [5th 6/1].
21:10 -- 1m 7f 218yds Handicap.
BANFF [11th 8/1] / MOUNT CLESHAR [6th 5/1].
Staked -- 12 points.
Returns -- 8.825 points.
Results will appear here later on Wednesday night. We seek to recover from our current deficit of -39 points. Some winners, but a loss again of 3.175. Now we have a loss of -42.175 points to take forwards.
LAYS -- 6/11 if we have one or two Lays tonight they will be updated here also. Successful with the lay bet tonight so now we are 7/12.
Tonight's Lays;
8.10 -- KRYSTALLITE [5th].
Our twelfth meeting here at Kempton Park will be after Royal Ascot on 27th June so see you then.
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