KEMPTON PARK RACES 2020 -- WEDNESDAY NIGHTS #2 22nd JANUARY

Welcome back to the regular Wednesday nights here at Kempton Park Racecourse. All being well 2020 can be a good year for us and will give us an interest until the bigger NH meetings come around as well as the regular Flat turf season. Meeting #1 was disappointing and only found the one winner, creating a loss to begin with of -9.25 to SP returns so we'll have to work harder to get the results during this season. Let us quickly move onward with our second Wednesday night of 2020, where we 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. The feature event tonight is going to be the 18:30 7f Handicap a class 3 contest so it's already on our radar. Keeping records of our endeavours to a one 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. 

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 had been fairly successful with our selections throughout last year managed to get plenty of favourites beat so we finished on 40/54 (74%). We reset the counters for 2020 and will be continuing this throughout the year again but sadly one of the favourites won last week so we are only at 1 out of 2 going into this second meeting.

This Wednesday is meeting number two for the 2020 AW season. Tonight we are expecting an eight race card during which we will have four handicaps. The action will now commence at 16:30 with a one mile classified stakes and tonight's card ends around about 20:00 with our final handicap contest over a seven furlong trip. 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 some scattered showers anticipated the best we expect the temperature to reach is around 12C by the time the meeting gets underway. January chill brrrr.
Here are our handicap selections for tonight, will aim to update details later when time allows;

18:30 32Red Casino Handicap (3yo)
(Class 5, 7f, 8 runners)

Our opening handicap for 3yo's takes place midway through the card, and can go to one of PHUKET POWER (T Dascombe) [2nd 6/1] who is owned by the King Power Racing and was successful over the trip in December, their horses usually keep their form well and is expected to go close even with top weight. We also select SPEED MERCHANT (M Appleby) [4th 11/1] a multiple winner at different all weather tracks should appreciate this trip having failed to see out an extended mile contest at Lingfield last time out.

19:00 32Red Handicap

(Class 3, 7f, 5 runners)

Just the field of five for our featured handicap tonight and we are selected REVOLUTIONISE [WON 3/1] and BUSBY [3rd 5/2] against the other three in the contest. Both are forecast prices around 4/1 mark and have winning form at the track which the other three lack that alone might prove to be the difference tonight and should well have a say in the outcome. The both get a handy bit of weight from the expected market leader Kimifive and with a small field this might well prove tactical so experience should count. The other pair, That is the Spirit is a 9yo so I anticipate should be beaten by younger talent while the bottom one Brigham Young seems up against it at these weights tonight.

19:30 32Red.com Handicap
(Class 4, 1m, 14 runners)
Although this represents the highest handicap mark they've had I still am interested in top weight DIVINE MESSENGER [2nd 14/1] here, a course and distance winner while steadily improving through the handicap this isn't the hardest looking contest. While also a CD scorer BRIDGEWATER BAY [13th 12/1] has only had three runs so more improvement is certainly possible as well here and all those outings have been on the all weather surfaces.

20:00 100% Profit Boost At 32Redsport.com Handicap
(Class 5, 7f, 12 runners)
STRINGYBARK CREEK [10th 16/1] races off a mark of 74 having won off slightly higher and also has a 3lb claimer in the saddle, has had a lot of racing even for a 6yo but does seem to thrive and would not be a huge shock if going close again here. FULL INTENTION [4th 15/8] is another 6yo who has won off this mark in the past and has plenty of experience and seven furlongs seem his best trip.

Staked -- 8 points.      Returns -- 4 points.

Results will appear here later during Wednesday evening. This season we started afresh but sadly lost out in meeting #1 so are behind by -9.25 points to SP going into this. One winner and a few places tonight, could have been a better meeting #2 but the facts are another 4 point loss which puts us on -13.25 points.

LAYS -- We had a good season last year with the lays, aiming at favourites and not afraid to take on short odds on shots too. Alas only one right last time around but the plan will be for at least one or two each meeting and we will keep those results separate from the handicap stats. Got them both beat tonight, both short price favourites makes it feel even better, so we now 3/4 in week two.

Tonight's Lays;

17:30 - STORMY MOUNTAIN [7f Fillies Maiden div 1]. LOST 2nd 4/6f
18:00 - MORROOJ [7f Fillies Maiden div 2]. LOST 4th 11/10f

Our third meeting for this year will be held in a weeks time on Wednesday 29th January hope you can join us then.