KEMPTON PARK HORSE RACING 2021 - MEETING #15 WEDNESDAY 9th JUNE

Welcome to Kempton Park racecourse a season of evening meetings following the events on a Wednesday night on the all weather flat track under the lights. We will continue blogging throughout 2021 till the end of the year. Started well this season pleasantly still ahead as we reach the month of June. Bit of a lull elsewhere for me, waiting to hear about friendlies and new signings for AFC Wimbledon as we build towards a new season with fans in attendance at the new Plough Lane stadium. The Epsom Oaks / Derby took place last weekend won by Snowfall (Frankie Dettori) and Adayar (Adam Kirby) respectively, and then this coming Friday the delayed European Championship begins when Italy play Turkey in Rome.

Returning 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. A successful opening first half of the year during 2021 means we arrive here with a +13.055 profit and will continue to keep a record to SP throughout the season.

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 16/21 (76%) after the latest meeting and we shall see how things progress during the year ahead. 

This week will be our fifteenth Wednesday evening meeting of the year and gladly this week we have begun to see the return to spectators on the racecourse not just the few owners. Tonight's meeting we shall now be expecting a seven race card with six handicaps for us to review. Our action will now commence at 17:30 with a mile apprentice handicap event, then we should end the card around about 20:30 with our final handicap event over just under two miles. 

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 somewhat warm and balmy afternoon and early evening with regular showers in the forecast but a higher temperature of around 24C tonight - hopefully by the time the next meeting arrives it will begin to stay dry for the spectators who will now be in attendance.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

17:30  Unibet New Instant Roulette Apprentice Handicap
1m  [Class 5  14 runners]

The opening handicap for us this evening is for Apprentice jockey's and while it won't take much to be successful tonight we will side with the pair of PROCLAIMER [9th @17/2] [Miss J Camacho] along with ALEZAN [4th @8/1] [Eve Johnson Houghton] against the field in a quiet start to the meeting.
Winner - (1) Conscious @11/1 [Harry Burns]

18:30  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap (3yo)
6f  [Class 4  9 runners]

GREAT NEWS [Non Runner] is a twice raced runner from the Godolphin ownership, unraced as a 2yo he came out and won at Salisbury on debut then unplaced at Newmarket, that was over a mile so the return to 6f should see a better level of form with Oisin Murphy in charge. AHLAWI [3rd @11/4f] had a couple of good runs on the all weather (runner up here) winning at Chelmsford towards the end of last year. 3yo debut wasn't great at Yarmouth but was sent off favourite for that and maybe better is expected back on this surface, James Doyle rides.
Winner - (2) Dream Composer @15/2 [Laura Pearson].

19:00  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Fillies' Handicap

6f  [Class 4  5 runners]

Just a field of five fillies the stand out selection would be ARABIC CHARM [2nd @evens] the Godolphin runner has a 5lb penalty for  her latest success at Brighton. ICE STATION ZEBRA [WON @11/4] is now a 4yo and was successful on the Southwell a/w surface last time out, looks the danger to the likely favourite tonight in a small race as long as she doesn't need the run, though she ought to come on for it, hopefully the race is run at a reasonable pace.
Winner - (2) Ice Station Zebra @11/4 [Rob Hornby].

19:30  Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap

7f  [Class 4  9 runners]

An improving type during last year GAVI DI GAVI [7th @15/2] is partnered by regular jockey Georgia King who can try and get back into the winners enclosure. QUICK BREATH [WON @4/1] is back on their last winning mark and should prefer this to the Ascot race they last contested which was on soft ground. Both can be backed around 10/1+ and will also have a little on the latter named in the place market too.
Winner - (7) Quick Breath @4/1 [Tyler Saunders].

20:00  Unibet Casino Deposit 10 Get 40 Bonus Handicap

1m 2f 219y  [Class 6  14 runners]

A good third here over this trip in September last year then went onto win over further at Wolves and if ready to roll after a six month break ON THE RIGHT TRACK [6th @11/1] could be an attractive price. MR ZEE [2nd @6/1] course winner here in January and showed some flexibility for switch to turf to win at Leicester and one to consider off only a 3lb rise with current Champion jockey Oisin Murphy a positive booking tonight.

Winner - .

20:30  racingtv.com Handicap

1m 7f 218y  [Class 6  14 runners]

We will end the meeting tonight with race for the stayers, not the greatest quality on show but something will be victorious and the natural one to begin with would be SCUDAMORE [3rd @11/8f] who has come alive for the step up in trip this season winning two from three so far and races with a 5lb penalty for his Chelmsford win. LIVA [2nd @9/1] won here last time and tries the extra distance now only up 4lb and well worth another chance at this trip now that he's tumbled down the handicap.
Winner - (7) Highway One @20/1 [P Cosgrove].

Staked -- 12 points.       Returns -- 9.75 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. Our winning start to 2021 has stalled a little of late however these first few months have proved to be successful even with the last meeting being a losing one our overall profit stands at +13.055 pts after meeting #14. A few winner together with a few near misses, sadly losing -2.25 points on the evening but remaining in profit after meeting #15 +10.805 points to carry over. 

Lays -- 16/21 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. Sadly picked a very short one tonight. 16/22.

Tonight's Lays;

18:00 - Moshaawer [1m 2f+ 3yo Novice Stakes].  Won 1/4f

The next midweek floodlit meeting here will be held on Wednesday 23rd June so keep well and hopefully we can have a successful 2021.