KEMPTON PARK HORSE RACING 2021 - MEETING #6 WEDNESDAY 24th FEBRUARY

Welcome to Kempton Park racecourse here for another season of evening meetings following the events on a Wednesday night on the all weather flat track under the lights. We will be blogging throughout 2021 till the end of the year. Dropped a few points here last time out, but we are still ahead as February comes towards an end. We have this past weekend had plenty of other sporting action to enjoy, AFC Wimbledon have confirmed the replacement head coach with the appointment of Mark Robinson and played high flying Peterborough United at the weekend losing 3-0 then had a morale boosting midweek success winning 1-0 at home to Gillingham. No six nations rugby until next weekend plus we are only a few more weeks away till the Cheltenham NH festival.

Back to the horse racing all results here are reported to 1pt at Starting Prices (SP) we will be keeping a rolling record of profit/loss all the way through from January till the Boxing Day King George fixture in December. Coming to the end of the first couple of months of meetings we have a healthy +44.74 profit and will continue to keep a record to SP throughout 2021.

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 33/49 (67.34%). We reset the counters for 2021 and will be continuing this throughout the year again. Currently standing at 8/11 (73%) after the latest meeting and we shall see how things progress during the year ahead. 

This week we look forward to the sixth Wednesday evening meeting of the year and sadly it's still being held behind closed doors as we remain in the latest national lockdown. Boris might update that during this week but for tonight we shall be expecting an eight race card with the final handicap divided into two divisions now making seven to review. Our action will now commence at 16:40 with our first handicap for apprentices over six furlongs, we should end the card around about 20:15 with a seven furlong handicap event. There are no noted feature races tonight.

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 warmer than usual night for the time of year and the temperature will reach a high of 14C tonight.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

16:40  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Apprentice Handicap
6f  [Class 4  5 runners]

Our opening event is a handicap for Apprentice jockey's. With just the five runners on show looks a great chance for NORTONTHORPE BOY [4th 16/5] to continue his winning run despite the rise in weights for recent Lingfield successes, with ELUSIVE TREAT [WON 7/2] the most likely danger to follow him home here. To be honest a case could be made for any of these tonight and probably not an event to get too heavily involved. 

17:15  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap
6f  [Class 5  12 runners]

The 7yo mare TURANGA LEELA [2nd 12/1] looks sure to run her race having been successful three times in recent months, including a course and distance win here. Usually races up with the pace and ought to be competitive once more of this handicap rating. While MISS THOUGHTFUL [9th 40/1] is another CD winner here last January and only 1lb higher than that mark expecting her to be close once more, chased home Turanga Leela in January and riders 5lb claim could be useful.

17:45  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Handicap (3yo)
1m  [Class 4  7 runners]

Richard Hannon's 3yo BABAJAN [4th 5/1] is on a hat trick and only a 1lb higher than latest win at Newcastle, although that was a small field he did the job well so good to stick with while in current mood together with stablemate CUBAN CIGAR [2nd 5/1] who gets weight from all and also has Thore Hammer Hansen's 3lb claim, wasn't far away at Lingfield last time and could go one better here tonight.

18:15  Unibet New Instant Roulette Handicap
1m  [Class 4  11 runners]

Stuart Williams' 7yo GLENN COCO [7th 9/1] returns to Kempton having tumbled down the weights since his last appearance here and also has a 3lb claiming jockey to help. RED JASPER [10th 18/1] had a couple of place efforts here and gets weight from the field should run well at a decent price for trainer Michael Appleby.

19:15  Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap
1m 2f 219y  [Class 4  14 runners]

Winner of his last two runs HINT OF STARS [WON 7/4] is high on the list to complete the hat trick tonight after a short break, with 7lb claimer retaining the ride once again. While PARTY ISLAND [5th 15/2] is also seeking a hat trick of wins the latest coming here over this trip for George Bass it will be interesting to see who comes out on top in the match betting.

19:45  Try Our New Super Boosts At Unibet Handicap (Div One)

7f  [Class 5  11 runners]

The final handicap has been split into two divisions, where the 4yo filly TRIXIE WATERBURY [7th 3/1] won here last time, with a big gap back to the field having run on strongly to beat Aces and Kings under Luke Morris who is booked for the ride once again. BROUGHTON SUNPEARL [6th 13/2] has run her last six races here at Kempton, winning in December, Laura Pearson claims a useful 5lb and I do expect the top two to dominate the outcome.

20:15  Try Our New Super Boosts At Unibet Handicap (Div Two)

7f  [Class 5  10 runners]

Our finale tonight, the second division of the 7f handicap, BORN TO FINISH [6th 10/3] a winner of his last two events including here, the 8yo continues to thrive in these lower grade events and could well pick up another win tonight. Beat Trixie Waterbury last time out at Lingfield so will be interested to see if she can win in the previous race. IN THE RED [3rd 10/1] is another 8yo who can be a bit in and out but has run well here in the past, back to a winning mark though and wouldn't be the biggest shock to see a good run once more.

Staked -- 14 points.       Returns -- 7.25 points.
Results will appear here later during Wednesday evening. All results are accurate and recorded to SP returns to a 1pt win stake only and updated each meeting. A winning start to 2021 has been very welcome, and although last week we only found one winner for a small loss our overall profit figure is still good up +44.74 pts after meeting #5. We will update tonight's meeting #6 during the course of the evening, well could have been better, a couple of winners and several nice places, but to a level stake at SP we lost -6.75 points tonight and that means our running profit is now +37.99 pts.

Lays -- 8/11 We had a good season last year again 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, three correct last week, hopefully continue that tonight.

Tonight's Lays;

None for this week, too many handicaps.

Our next midweek floodlit meeting here will be held on Wednesday 3rd March so keep well and hopefully we can have a successful 2021.