The evenings continue to draw in and get darker early, but the lights are on here always at Kempton on Wednesday.Christmas is looming large next month and will soon need to get them cards and gifts sorted ( I hate Christmas ). The football news is that we continue to keep losing in the league (eight losses in a row now) which meant that we finally sacked manager Neal Ardley with no replacement in sight and only just scraping through the FA Cup against non league opposition I for one was pleased for a decent weekend of racing at Cheltenham and we now come back to Wednesday nights Somewhat glad I can come back to this blog as we 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 year to date sadly and are falling behind now although it's a bit up and down this is now into the last few months as we reach meeting number twenty three. 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 twenty three, and as we push on into the latter part of the year we need to find that winning habit again as we need to recover and take a dent out of the losses to date since we find ourselves down -64.72 points to SP, would be nice to continue turning this around and there is still a fair 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, having a disappointing time with these of late keep on finding winners, this season though means we are currently 19/30 going forwards with these for 2018 and we at least keep accurate figures win or lose.
This Wednesday is meeting number twenty three for the 2018 season and we are expecting an eight race card tonight with three handicaps and a Listed Contest for us to look through and enjoy the action which will commence at 16:10 with the the first of our handicaps tonight.
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 dark and cloudy day we a decent chance of rain so might be best to stay in the bars between races (just a suggestion) but we can still have a good night even with the threat of rain a top temperature will be about 10C by the time the meeting gets underway.
Here are our handicap selections for tonight;
16:10 -- 1m 1f 218yds Handicap.
We start our evening with a 14 runner handicap where top weight UNIT OF ASSESSMENT hasn't been seen since February after winning a Lingfield contest and therefore might need the run after his layoff.
RAAQYAH has the breeding and in top ownership but hasn't set the world on fire, however this is probably her best opportunity to date and a big run wouldn't be a shock.
But we are going with two 3yo against the field with EXCELLERATION [7th 12/1] and GO FOX [3rd 3/1] who both have placed form and yet still have time on their side.
18:40 -- 1m Listed 'Hyde' Stakes.
A decent race for this fixture with £20k+ to the winner and eleven declared for the prize. Top two are FLAMING SPEAR and HATHAL who are 10lb higher than most of the rest on ratings. The other contender looks to be Andrew Balding's STRAIGHT RIGHT [5th 7/2] and this 4yo has won his last two contests so will take a lot of beating and is selected along with VICTORY BOND [4th 4/1] against the field.
19:10 -- 1m 7f 218y Handicap.
A nice staying prize up for grabs now with little over £15k for the winner and a field of eight declared. While both the market leaders ALQAMAR and BAYDAR will be popular they are too short for us so will be following the fortunes of the two bottom ones DARKSIDEOFTARNSIDE [Non Runner] and BILLY RAY [3rd 5/1] the latter having won a couple of races so far and steps up in trip once more after his latest victory.
19:40 -- 1m 3f 219yds Handicap.
Our finale over just under mile and half with a field of just eight looks wide open and will have to side with the course winners LANDUE and RYDAN against the rest.
Staked -- 8 points.
Returns -- 1 points.
Returns -- 1 points.
Results will appear here later on Wednesday night. Overall the losses are sadly increased to the current level of -64.72 points. Last few meetings of the year left to make a dent into that hopefully, no joy again tonight, not great and down -71.72.
LAYS -- 19/30 so far, beginning to get them beat regularly now, and if we have one or two Lays tonight they will be updated here also. One success and the other a non runner so we now 20/31.
Tonight's Lays;
BAYDAR -- 19:10 (1m 7f+ Handicap) LOST 5th.
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