KEMPTON PARK RACES 2019 -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #7 13th MARCH

Back we come for the next instalment of what I hope will prove to be a productive year throughout 2019.

Even though the  Cheltenham Festival is in full swing we still have racing on the all weather here at Kempton and we should be looking forward to the turf flat season appearing soon too and in the meantime we are back to focus on the all weather horse racing now while the lights still shine brightly here at Kempton Park throughout this year. We are hopeful of better season than we experienced last year but it's just some fun and excitement to mix up the week we have started the first quarter well though so it's positive thus far. 

Lets continue with our seventh Wednesday night of 2019, and will continue to focus on the handicap contests for each Wednesday evening meeting though we will also occasionally include a feature listed or conditions event too if there is one 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. 

Following a mixed bag of results last week we lost -7.27 points to SP and are therefore slightly down by -8.02 points to SP returns. But I'm fine with it so far given 2 months have elapsed and how bad last year was for us. 

Once more this year we will keep up with our occasional lay opportunities of anticipated short priced favourites too. Naturally we will keep these results separately from the handicap figures we have been fairly successful with our selections so far and are 4/7 alas the 100% record went with further short priced favourite winning last time but it's still a good strike rate and we will continue into 2019. 

This Wednesday will be meeting number seven for the 2019 AW season and we are expecting an eight race card tonight with SEVEN handicaps this week for us to look through and enjoy now that two of them have been divided meaning that the action tonight will commence at 16:40 with a six furlong fillies handicap contest and the card ends around about 20:15 with another 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 to slow' and the current weather forecast for this Wednesday is for a cold day with some cloud cover and fair chance of rain during the day the temperature will only be about 12C by the time the meeting gets underway so please wrap up warm, maybe sneak in a hip flask too.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight, as we have a busy meeting plus Cheltenham to focus on we only have time for selections this week;

16:40 -- 6f Fillies Handicap (3yo).
We open tonight with a 6f sprint handicap for three year old fillies only, a field of 12 declared includes HALLE'S HARBOUR [5th 14/1] who was a course and distance winner on previous start, and GRANDEE DAISY [6th 5/1] another course and distance winner and runner up recently and seems well drawn. Both about 10/1.

17:45 -- 1m 7f 218y Handicap.
Our next handicap event is for the stayers, with just the eight declared, though will stick with the pair of BUSY STREET [WON 11/2]  // ULSTER [2nd 8/11F] the latter of which was a recent winner and still should have plenty going for them in this company.

18:15 -- 1m Handicap (3yo) Div One.
TYPSYN [7th 20/1]  //  IMAGE OF THE MOON [2nd 16/1].

18:45 -- 1m Handicap (3yo) Div Two.
DANCING JO [2nd 9/2] // LEE ROY [WON 11/4F].

19:15 -- 1m Handicap Div One.
GOLDEN GUEST [Non Runner]  //  CHIKOKO TRAIL [2nd 12/1].

19:45 -- 1m Handicap Div Two.
BAASHIQ [2nd 7/2]  //  STAND N DELIVER [6th 10/3].

20:15 -- 7f Handicap.

SHOWDANCE KID [10th 100/1]  //  VIOLA PARK [2nd 11/1]. 

Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 11.25 points.

Results will appear here later on Wednesday night as we seek to recover from the current deficit of -8.02 points to SP returns. Couple of winners, and a few decent seconds tonight, so sadly dropped another -2.75 points means we are behind to the tune of -10.77. 

LAYS -- 4/7.  Made a nice start to the year with successful lays in the opening few meetings but a few winning favourites since then has set us back a little, we will see if we can get a couple more beat tonight and improve the record. After a win and a loss tonight we are now on 5/9 shame. 

Tonight's Lays;

19.45 -- COLD FIRE  [LOST - 7th].

20:15 -- ELUSIF  [Won 9/4F].

Our next meeting for this year will be held on Wednesday 27th March so hope to see you then and throughout 2019 too.