2018 KEMPTON PARK RACES -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #14 11th JULY

And as we continue to bask in the July sunshine the heat is still causing me uncomfortable sleepless nights. 😢

The 2018 World Cup is now into it's Semi Final stages and surprisingly England are still there with a good chance and will be taking on Croatia tonight for a place in the Final on Sunday (Still believe that it's coming home folks). 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 not had the greatest first half of the year and are a bit behind now although it's a bit up and down this is half way and meeting fourteen. 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 fourteen, and as we head past the half way stage of the year we managed to have a good week last time and take a dent out of the losses to date although we still find ourselves down -20.175 points to SP, would be nice to continue turning this around and there is still a long way to go we need some more 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. 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 9/15 going forwards with these for 2018. 

This Wednesday is meeting number fourteen for the 2018 season and we are expecting an eight race card tonight with seven handicaps to enjoy the action will commence at 17:55 with an Apprentice Handicap over seven furlongs.

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

The going on the polytrack surface is described as 'standard' 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 28C by the time the meeting gets underway.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight, we will be watching the football so updates when available;

17:20 -- 7f Apprentice Handicap.
NEZAR  [5th 16/1]  //  KINGSTON KURRAJONG  [8th 8/1]. 

17:55 -- 1m Handicap (Div One).
DIVINE MESSENGER  [2nd 5/2F]   //  BOOKMAKER  [8th 14/1].

18:25 -- 1m Handicap (Div Two).
BAZ  [10th 33/1]  //  SICARIO  [8th 8/1].

18:55 -- 1m Handicap (3yo).
FACE LIKE THUNDER  [5th 9/2]  //  MARGIE'S CHOICE  [3rd 6/1].

19:55 -- 1m 7f 218yds Handicap.
COUSIN KHEE  [9th 33/1]  //  GRACEFUL LADY  [4th 9/1].

20:25 -- 1m 2f 219yds Handicap.
LONG JOHN SILVER  [6th 9/1]  //  MAGELLAN  [WON 11/8F].

20:55 -- 6f Handicap.
OPERATIVE  [5th 10/1] //  FANTASY KEEPER  [WON 5/1].

Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 8.375 points.

Results will appear here later on Wednesday night. We seek to recover from our current deficit of -20.175 points. Couple of late winners and alas a small loss tonight of -5.625. Means we have to take a loss value of -25.8 over to the next meeting.

LAYS -- 9/15 if we have one or two Lays tonight they will be updated here also.

Tonight's Lays;
CLIFFS OF DOVER [19:55] LOST 8th 5/4F. 10/16

Our next meeting here at Kempton Park will be next month on Wednesday 8th August so see you then.