Kempton Park Racecourse on a Wednesday night we return to life on the all weather flat track again. All being well 2020 can be a good year for us.
Not the best of starts with losses incurred in the opening two meetings so far, long season ahead of us though, away from the racing we've enjoyed the cricket in South Africa with England beginning to show signs of dominating the series, AFC Wimbledon have won a game too, which is helping us to stay out of the drop zone for now and off the field have launched the Plough Lane Bond hoping to raise essential funds for the new stadium and already passed the £1m mark within the opening week of launch. All results here are reported to 1pt at Starting Prices (SP) and after meeting #2 we are sadly behind by -13.25, results to SP we will need to improve.
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.
This Wednesday is meeting number three for the 2020 AW season. Tonight we are expecting an eight race card where all bar the opening maiden's are handicaps. The action will now commence at 16:45 with division one of the mile maiden contest for three year olds and tonight's card ends around about 20:15 with our final handicap contest over a mile and 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 and it's going to be very cold all day so we expect the temperature to reach single figures around 9C by the time the meeting gets underway. January chill brrrr.
Here are our handicap selections for tonight;
17:45 32Red Handicap
(Class 4, 1m, 6 runners)
Opening handicap contest over a mile has only attracted a small field of six where Trevithick [4th 25/1] is selected despite being disappointing on recent runs at Newcastle, maybe the change of scenery and small field might help as trainer Brian Smart wouldn't come here for a day out. Lightly raced for a 5yo Merchant of Venice [3rd 9/4f] has won twice here and wasn't too far away last time out either in a bunch finish.
18:15 32Red Casino Fillies' Handicap
(Class 5, 6f, 7 runners)
The 4yo filly Hassaad [Won Evens] is given another chance in this grade to see if she can settle better and see out the trip, seemed to be getting closer when last seen here two runs ago. While Equipped [Non Runner] trained by Mick Channon is having her first handicap run (only her 4th outing in all) and getting weight from the others looks a good betting option at 8/1.18:45 32Red.com Handicap
(Class 4, 7f, 11 runners)
Even though Unforgiving Minute [3rd 10/1] is a 9yo is still winning plenty of races and should be supported again after wins towards the end of 2019 and clearly still in good heart. While support for course and distance winner Eljaddaaf [2nd 25/1] another 9yo who has won off higher marks than this should be noted. Two very nice places here, sadly not enough for the win but good returns all the same.
19:15 100% Profit Boost At 32RedSport.com Handicap
(Class 5, 7f, 10 runners)
A pair of 6yo's both forecast around 20/1 are our selections in this open 7f contest, Baashiq [5th 20/1] (Mark Usher) and De Little Engine [8th 25/1] (Alexandra Dunn) both are winners at Brighton and while have some form around this track the openness of the contest they are back to their last winning handicap mark.
19:45 racingtv.com Handicap
(Class 6, 7f, 14 runners)
A winner at Chelmsford and runner up here off 3lb higher might suggest that Distant Applause [7th 13/2] is due and this 5yo hasn't had too much racing so could be very interesting tonight while Es Que Magic [4th 6/1] started off on a 12lb higher mark and has pieces of place form but still waiting that first win and their best effort to date was probably last time out when denied a clear run so has a chance again here with a bit of better fortune.
20:15 Every Race Live On Racing TV Handicap
(Class 6, 1m 7f 218y, 14 runners)
Our finale tonight is for the stayers, has a max field of 14 declared and while Que Quieres [6th 7/2] last five runs have been over at Chelmsford he has won two of his last three starts so is clearly in decent form now upped to these staying distances. Capricorn Prince [4th 13/2] won a small non handicap contest earlier in the month and while staying on there is giving another opportunity to see if these trips can still be an option for them in the future.
Staked -- 12 points. Returns -- 3 points.
Results will appear here later during Wednesday evening. This season we started afresh and will try hard to stop going well behind but all results are accurate and recorded to SP returns to a 1pt win stake only and updated each meeting. A disappointing start to 2020 with just one winner creating an increased loss in meeting #2 of -13.25, results to SP we will need to improve.
LAYS -- 3/4. We had a good season last year with the lays, aiming at favourites and not afraid to take on short odds on shots too. The plan will be for at least one or two each meeting and we will keep those results separate from the handicaps. One winner, one beaten tonight, so sadly we are 4/6 now.
Tonight's Lays;
Tonight's Lays;
16:45 - King of Arms [1m Maiden (Div 1)]. WON 5/4f 😬
17:15 - Rusper's Lad [1m Maiden (Div 2)]. LOST 3/1
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