KEMPTON PARK RACING 2020 MEETING #15 WEDNESDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER

Welcome to Kempton Park racecourse here for another evening meeting as we return to regular action on the all weather flat track under the lights but behind closed doors for the time being. We will keep blogging throughout 2020 till the end of the year. British horse racing has safely returned behind closed doors as part of a phased return for the sport. In doing so we will be introducing strict protocols designed to safeguard everyone's health and well being and to ensure that racing can take place safely behind closed doors. These measures have been developed in consultation with government and public health officials to help keep those attending safe and include:

• A three stage health check that all attendees on courses will have to pass;
• Strict social distancing measures on course
• Detailed new guidance for all participants on how they will have to do things differently on course in order that we can race safely and mitigate any risks.

In addition the courses are reducing the use of any medical or NHS services to a minimum, acting responsibly by using private ambulances, hospitals and medics – to protect the NHS. For those working at an event, including officials, racecourse staff and participants, the implementation of these guidelines ensures that racing will take place in a more controlled environment than most day-to-day activities.

Back to the horse racing all results here are reported to 1pt at Starting Prices (SP) was a month since out last meeting here, where sadly we dropped a couple more points but as we are now in September and after meeting #14 we find ourselves in a loss for the year to a figure of -30.515 points, results are always recorded to SP we will aim to get us back into the black again soon and see further improvement in the results.

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. Currently a decent start with plenty of short priced favourites getting beat, one short fav beat last time we now have stats of 17/24 (70.83%) after the latest meeting.

This week we are back with a Wednesday evening meeting during this interrupted period, this will be meeting #15 for the 2020 midweek season. Tonight we shall be expecting an eight race card where the final four of these are handicaps. The action will now commence at 16:25 with a six furlong novice stakes and we should end the card around about 20:00 with our final handicap contest over six furlongs.

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 some rain expected the temperature to reach around 18C by the time the meeting gets underway.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

18:30  Rasher and Maureen Frith Memorial Handicap
1m [Class 6  14 runners]
An old friend around here the 8yo MISU PETE [7th 40/1] is back on a very workable mark now and has still been winning this term is available at 20/1 so will be a bit of an e/w bet for us too. While ROGUE TIDE [2nd 12/1] has tried racing here a few times and has dropped a little in the weights, another at a big price with Hollie Doyle taking the ride surely a big positive.

19:00  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Handicap

1m 2f 219y [Class 3  6 runners]
Just a small field of six for this class three contest, all three year olds and headed by the Godolphin runner NEVER ALONE [5th 4/1] a dual winner at Wolves and a repeat of those runs should be sufficient here, though support for STAR OF WINS [2nd 16/5] could be interesting having won twice on turf, this is his first try on an all weather surface, was a bit disappointing last time at Yarmouth in another small field but is by Sea The Stars so the trip is almost perfect.

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1m 3f 219y [Class 6  14 runners]
With wins at Bath and places off similar marks MAGIC SHUFFLE [8th 11/2] at least holds his form and jockey Tom Marquand in great form this season while SAEER [9th 13/2] is a well bred runner for Sir Michael Stoute, outclassed at Chester and this track and opposition should be better suited, has Ryan Moore in the saddle as a bonus.

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6f  [Class 6  12 runners]

STARTER FOR TEN [9th 10/3] didn't seem to appreciate the Soft/Heavy going last time out at Redcar but did run to a place at Lingfield before then up against an odds on fav that day and nothing of that sort here, should be close again while the very experienced ENGLISHMAN [2nd 20/1] might be 10yo but still has winning form this year again, three times on the all weather tracks and also popped up at Newmarket too so not without a chance again here. Close but no cigar. ;(

Staked -- 8 points.       Returns -- Nil 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 now sees us behind after meeting #14 to the tune of -30.515 overall and we need some more winners to get back into profit. So annoying with several runners up including a big price in last, sadly that takes our loss figure to -38.515 now.

Lays -- 17/24. 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. Got two favs beat tonight, sadly one very short priced one was successful. 19/27.
Tonight's Lays;
17:00  Secret Protector [7f 2yo Novice Div One] Won 1/4f

17:30  Underwater Attack [7f 2yo Novice Div Two] Lost 6th 6/4f 
18:00  Perfect Inch [1m Fillies Novice] Lost 2nd 4/9f

Our next evening meeting here is next week 30th September hope you can join us again soon but most importantly remain safe and well.