KEMPTON PARK RACES 2019 -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #30 27th November

Little over a month left to go of this season, was hopeful of a more productive second half to the year but we struggling a little. Never mind at least we tried something as an experiment and saw it through to the end, maybe we'll just do the lay bets in 2020 they seem to have gone well.  End of November meeting now with December fast approaching and the Christmas adverts already annoying me. While Wimbledon where busy winning 1-0 against Gillingham to move us a couple more places above the drop zone we also witnessed the first few big races of the NH Season, Altior losing his unbeaten record to Cyrname at Ascot and Lostintranslation winning the Betfair Chase at Haydock beating dual winner Bristol De Mai.

Has been a very up and down year overall not just with the racing though the last month was encouraging so with the Autumn and Winter months to come we will continue 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 found it hard and are more than a little behind to SP though it's something I will keep persevering with through to the end of the year. 

Let us move onward with this our thirtieth 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 our last meeting the deficit is currently on -58.945 points to SP returns overall. We continue to battle hard to reduce this and thankfully there is still a few months to get this back. 

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 and last meeting we managed to get another two odds on favourites beat so we are now 37/50 (74%) we will continue with this through 2019.

This Wednesday will be meeting number thirty for the 2019 AW season and we are expecting a bumper eight race card tonight during which we expect to have six handicaps (which will include two 2yo nurseries). The action which will now commence at 16:10 with a 6f novice stakes, our first nursery handicap contest is at 16:40, tonight's card ends around about 19:40 with our final handicap contest over a shade under 1m 4f.

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

Going and Weather -- The going on the polytrack surface is described as 'standard to slow' and the current weather forecast for this Wednesday is for a lot of cloudy weather with a chill in the air so wrap up warm and a good chance of showers so keep dry and safe in the bars the best we expect the temperature to reach is around 12C by the time the meeting gets underway.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight, time is short and too many work meetings so selections today until I can update later;

16:40 -- 1m Nursery Handicap (2yo).

Our opening handicap event is a nursery for 2yo's over the mile trip, has attracted a field of 12 runners headed by Summeronsevenhills [Non Runner] trained by Richard Hughes a winner recently at Chelmsford and returns to the all weather under a penalty, likely to be the favourite so will aim to oppose for something at bigger odds tonight. Preference is for the pair of TIRITOMBA [3rd 5/1] (Richard Hannon) and MAGIC TWIST [11th 33/1] (Mark Johnston) both trainers are prolific with their youngsters and have already shown some place form.

17:10 -- 1m Handicap.
Another mile handicap up next, this time for older horses although it is prominently 3yo's here, a field of 14 declared. Selections are for a couple of the older horses OUD METHA BRIDGE [10th 16/1] / THE CHILDREN'STRUST [6th 10/1].

18:10 -- 7f Nursery Handicap (2yo).
Our second nursery handicap now and only the six runners to view, with FUWAYRIT [4th 2/1] (Mark Johnston) and LETHAL TALENT [3rd 5/1] (Jon Portman) our pair of selections against the rest of the field. The Johnston horse has been well supported for his last three races and winning two of them, didn't break well enough at Chester to get involved and faded but this track should be more to Fuwayrit's liking. The filly Lethal Talent has two all weather wins including around here and is most likely to bring the challenge tonight.

18:40 -- 7f Handicap.

SIX STRINGS  [5th 20/1].
SIR HAMILTON  [12th 12/1].

19:10 -- 1m 2f 219y Handicap.

TOROCHICA [3rd 3/1].
CONTRAST [7th 14/1].

19:40 -- 1m 3f 219y Handicap (3yo).

Only a field of five made it into the finale, looks a match between SASHENKA along with SWEET CELEBRATION [WON 2/1] where the latter is probably preferred with the 7lb claim from her rider very useful in this company. Of the other three I also like the look of CAPLA CRUSADER another course and distance winner so if Sweet Celebration proves to be too short a price to back today (if under 6/4f) then maybe we switch to that one.

Staked -- 12 points.

Returns -- 3 points.

Results will appear here later during Wednesday evening. This season we are sadly down by -58.945 points to SP returns. Now only another month of the season to go and we will end up with an additional meeting here for the King George Chase on Boxing Day. Just one winner, very disappointing end to the year now down by -67.945 points to SP. 

LAYS -- 37/50. Got our lay bets beat again last week and we will try to find another one or two successful lay bets this time around and these will show up here later on tonight. Mixed bag tonight, one beaten fav, one winner (odds on) and the other a non runner. Moves to 38/52

Tonight's Lays;

16:10 Thrilla In Manila [6f Novice 3yo] LOST 2nd 7/4f
16:40 Summeronsevenhills [1m Nursery 2yo] NR
17:40 Boccaccio [7f Novice 2yo]. WON 4/9f

Our thirty first meeting for this year will be held next week on Wednesday 4th December so hope to see you then and throughout the rest of 2019. Maybe we'll be back next year...