KEMPTON PARK HORSE RACING 2021 - MEETING #17 WEDNESDAY 30th 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 latter part of June. We've been following the delayed 2020 European Championship and England will face Germany on Tuesday (kick off 5pm), hopefully we will have a positive result (Yes we won 2-0 fantastic result). The Wimbledon tennis championships began on Monday, and AFC Wimbledon are preparing their pre season friendlies and recently announced a game with newly promoted Brentford in front of a smallish crowd keeping to current covid guidance rules. 

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 +2.805 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 18/24 (75%) after the latest meeting and we shall see how things progress during the year ahead. 

This week will be our seventeenth Wednesday evening meeting of the year. Tonight's meeting we shall now be expecting a seven race card with five handicaps for us to review. Our action will now commence at 17:35 with a seven furlong fillies novice event, then we should end the card around about 20:35 with our final handicap event over six furlongs, the meeting also includes another qualifying round of the London Mile series at 19:35.

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 warmer afternoon and early evening with a serious chance of showers in the forecast and a higher temperature of around 17C tonight.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

18:05  Unibet New Instant Roulette Handicap
6f  [Class 5  12 runners]

A big price on offer about OBTUSE [8th 40/1] who had struggled off a higher mark after wins up at Wolverhampton and has now had some respite from the handicapper back to a level that he might be able to exploit with Charles Bishop on board taking over from a 7lb claimer. TOPTIME [6th 11/2] the only course and distance winner in this field and with Oisin Murphy to assist ought to have a big run back on this track, should prefer this trip having been tried over 5f last few races.
Winner - (1) Lockdown @11/1 [Shane Kelly].

19:05  Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap
1m 3f 219y  [Class 3  11 runners]

The best race on the card tonight can fall to GREAT ESTEEM [9th 12/1] back to a winning mark and a previous course and distance winner too. Hollie Doyle riding is another plus, and can give the favourite (Rodrigo Diaz) plenty to think about, only failure of note this season was when stepping up to 1m 5f at Hamilton and clearly failed to stay, so coming back to this trip is perfect. The bottom one FAME N FORTUNE [4th 14/1] receives weight all round, has plenty of winning form at Lingfield albeit in a lesser grade but given an opportunity to step forward here, is in good hands and should go at a decent price too.
Winner - (2) Boss Power @9/2 [Oisin Murphy].

19:35  Unibet Casino Deposit 10 Get 40 Bonus (London Mile Series Qual) Handicap

1m  [Class 4  8 runners]

A qualifying round for the London Mile series next where recent Pontefract winner BUCEPHALUS [3rd 3/1] should continue to progress with 5lb claimer Seb Woods going well. Had been runner over further as a 3yo but feel that the mile might be the place to stay for a little while longer and this fairly lightly raced 4yo can look to run well again now that they've found the winning thread. Support for course winner QUICK BREATH [2nd 9/1] should be noted, returning three weeks after than win, although older than most of his rivals has the experience to run well also has the aide of a good 5lb claiming jockey in Tyler Saunders.
Winner - (1) Tahitian Prince @3/1 [Sean Levey].

20:05  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap

1m 7f 218y  [Class 4  8 runners]

Charlie Fellows trains the 4yo SOROS [4th 17/2] who only began their racing career in January and straight into the staying distances, winner at Southwell and not many miles on the clock so far. While MACK THE KNIFE [2nd 5/2] has been scoring consistently this season and now steps up in trip again so there's a question mark around the new trip but was runner up when sent up to contest a 1m 6f event at Southwell so every chance he'll see it out.

Winner - (5) Potenza @5/2jf [Theodore Ladd].

20:35  Bet At racingtv.com Handicap

6f  [Class 5  12 runners]

Our finale tonight is a six furlong dash where AMATHUS [6th @12/1] is taken to transfer wins on the turf at Windsor and Salisbury to the all weather surface, followed up that latest win with a runner up effort at Goodwood, up a few pounds as a result but clearly in good heart and respected. Having won early in their career AL ASEF [Non Runner] has tumbled down from a high of 88 down to today's mark of 68, picked up a Wolves handicap last time out and only 2lb higher today, Andrea Atzeni takes over in the saddle.
Winner - (5) World Of Windhover @4/1 [Thore Hammer Hansen].

Staked -- 10 points.       Returns -- 1 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 the first half of the year has proved to be successful even with the last meeting being a bit of a disaster our overall profit now stands at +2.805 pts after meeting #16 a huge improvement on this time last year though, with all results recorded to SP returns we would have been looking at better figures with the prices taken. Terrible evening no winners, few places and a loss of -9 points tonight means we finally go into the red for the season at the midway point. Sadly on -6.195 points heading into meeting #18. 

Lays -- 18/24 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. These continue to go quite well given we are half way through the year, and they are generally very short prices, including two beaten favourites last time. The plan will be for at least one or two each meeting and we will keep those results separate from the handicaps. 50/50 tonight with the two lays still good results so far with half the year complete 19/26.

Tonight's Lays;

17:35 - Safra  [7f 2yo Fillies Novice]  Won 5/2.

18:05 - Berrtie  [6f 3yo Handicap]  LOST 15/8F.

The next midweek floodlit meeting here will be held on Wednesday 7th July so keep well and hopefully we can have a successful 2021.