KEMPTON PARK RACES 2019 -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #9 3rd APRIL

Continuing with the next instalment of what I hope will prove to be a productive year throughout 2019.

Now into April which will end with me celebrating my half century of life and a trip to Ascot. The first quarter of the year and the turf flat season has starting again with AUXERRE winning the Doncaster Lincoln last weekend for James Doyle and Godolphin led all the way and very comfortable win. 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 this our ninth 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 complete wipe-out last time out we lost another -6.00 points to SP and are therefore behind to the tune of -16.77 points to SP returns overall. But I'm fine with it so far given three months have elapsed and there's plenty of time to get this back on track. 

Again throughout the 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 but with a few favourites winning recently we are now 7/12 we will continue with this through 2019. 

This Wednesday will be meeting number nine for the 2019 AW season and we are expecting another eight race card tonight with four handicaps this week for us to look through and enjoy, the action which will commence at 16:40 with a five furlong novice stakes and the card ends around about 20:15 with the second division of the Classified Stakes contest over just short of mile and three furlongs in trip.

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

The going on the polytrack surface is described as 'standard to slow' and the current weather forecast for this Wednesday is for a wet day with fair chance of rain a top temperature will only be about 10C by the time the meeting gets underway.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

17:10 -- 7f Handicap (3yo) Div One.
Our first handicap event tonight will be for 3yo only and is run over seven furlongs, the event has been split into two divisions and we've a field of ten declared to face the starter for division one headed by MISS ENGIMA for trainer Richard Hughes. 

Not a lot of form to go on here, most have run down the field in 2yo maidens although PENTLAND LAD [WON 8/13F] has some experience of being placed and should go well for Oisin Murphy. I might have an interest in FAST ENDEAVOUR [6th 8/1] too for the 3lb claimer Cameron Noble. Not a race to be too involved with though and hopefully division two is a little more exciting. 

17:45 -- 7f Handicap (3yo) Div Two.
The second division also featuring a field of ten three year olds sadly is not much better than the first. Is headed by GREGORIAN GIRL [WON 12/1] for Dean Ivory, and the selections would ideally come from the lower drawn which also brings in CAUTHEN [2nd 6/5F] and SPEED SKATER [NR].

18:15 -- 7f Handicap (3yo).
And the next contest is another seven furlong handicap (class 5 now) for three year olds only and this field of 14 is headed by JOHN BETJEMAN who at least has some place form to his name. 

Dual winner RED PHOENIX [8th 11/1] will appeal for trainer Mark Johnston and should be thereabouts again in this company along with Michael Bell's REGULAR [2nd 9/4F] if fit to fly on seasonal debut.

19:15 -- 1m 2f 219y Handicap.
Our final handicap tonight will be over a shade under one mile and three furlongs. A strong field of 11 declared for this headed by BAYDAR, while VALENTINO DANCER [4th 11/2] is attractive with the aide of Cieren Fallon who can claim a useful 7lb tonight but will have a little work to do from a high draw in stall nine. 

SURREY BLAZE [6th 11/2] is the other selection here for Oisin Murphy and has the inside draw (1) to help if his rider can jump out and make good use of that.

Staked -- 8 points.
Returns -- 14.62 points.

Results will appear here later during Wednesday evening. We are currently on a deficit of -16.77 points to SP returns for the season, nine months of the season to go though. Nice result giving us +6.62 tonight and taking a piece out of the losses. Now on -10.15 going forwards to the next meeting.

LAYS -- 7/12. Got two correct last time to slightly improve our figures here, still looking for short priced selections and will post below if we have any for tonight. Sadly both odds on favs won, that's disappointing but the chance you take when you play this game on short price selections. 7/14 now.

Tonight's Lays;

18:45 -- CANVASSED (1m Novice Stakes) Won 8/13F.
19:45 -- HARRY CALLAHAN (1m 3f Classified Stakes) Won 4/7F.

Our tenth meeting for this year will be held on Wednesday 10th April so hope to see you then and throughout 2019 too.