KEMPTON PARK HORSE RACING 2021 - MEETING #20 WEDNESDAY 11th AUGUST

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 reached the latter part of July and now pushing on through August in profit. The ladies won the Shergar Cup at Ascot last weekend and our football season for AFC Wimbledon is up and running with an opening day away trip resulting in a 1-2 victory against Doncaster Rovers, backed that up with a 0-1 victory against Charlton on Tuesday night in the league cup. Nice to be up and running with Bolton Wanderers due to visit Plough Lane on Saturday with a full house expected there. The premier league will get underway this coming weekend and another Pontefract meeting coming up this Sunday also. 

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 came to an end prior to the last meeting but we secured three good winners (including a 50/1 shot) and now we are back in front with a profit of +39.555 points we 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 21/28 (75%) after the latest meeting and we shall see how things progress during the year ahead. 

This week will be our twentieth Wednesday evening meeting of the year. Tonight's meeting we shall now be expecting a six race card with the race card order now altered so that we begin with the seven furlong 2yo Nursery event [17:50], and we'll end at 20:25 with the final handicap over just under 12f.

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 highest expected temperature of around 23C tonight.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

17:50  Racing TV Nursery (2yo)

7f  [Class 6  9 runners]

We now open with the 2yo Nursery event, there's not a lot of early form only maiden and novice runs for most of the field, but given that the Richard Hannon yard are known to have their 2yos handy we will have a look at Isemal [8th @40/1] who's three runs have given her a lowly handicap rating for this, was massively out of her depth at Goodwood last time (125/1 shot) in a class two event there and this is much more her grade. Also worth a second glance is Streak Jazz [7th @7/1] who was placed last time at Lingfield now has James Doyle in the saddle it's a very open nursery which won't take much improvement from any to win of their early handicap rating.
Winner - (9) Thatsthefinest @11/1 [Luke Morris].

19:25  Unibet Casino Deposit 10 Get 40 Bonus Handicap
7f  [Class 4  10 runners]

Mr Trick [9th @12/1] is a 3yo inmate of Richard Hannon and was third in a novice event here last time back in June, was also placed here before and clearly won't mind the track, still rated 83 and expected to be at least in the frame once more. Shall also been having an interest in Prontissimo [2nd @3/1] [Tr. Patrick Owens] another 3yo was runner up at Doncaster on soft going, running on well there at the finish and went down by less than a length. He also did win his maiden here and one of the more likely types off a fair mark.
Winner - (2) Sun Power @12/1 [Angus Villiers].

19:55  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Handicap

1m  [Class 5  9 runners]

The 3yo filly Waleyfa [xx @15/2] [Tr. Owen Burrows]has yet to finish out of the frame on three starts to date, not disgraced when runner up at Leicester to an odds on favourite, this should be within her grasp. While also have a look at Golden Claim [3rd @17/2] [Tr. Ismail Mohammed] who has way more experience than many 3yo's here has course winning form too and only up 4lb from latest of those wins. Stays further, has a decent sire, but still has pace to make them all go over this mile trip. 
Winner - (7) Sharla @22/1 [Nicola Currie].

20:25  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap

1m 3f 219y  [Class 6  9 runners]

We will now end tonight's meeting with a middle distance contest which is headed by Gary Moore's Capricorn Prince [7th @18/1] who was winning a few races during last season and then found the new handicap mark at bit more difficult, but now down 2lb and with a 7lb claimer on board should be right in the mix again. Lucky Draw [8th @5/1] is another to consider here, the 4yo filly returns to the all weather might not have recovered from a fall (unseated rider at Haydock) then ran a week later at Newbury on soft ground over a longer trip which also might have been too far. Has an experienced jockey back on now, better surface, preferred trip and a decent price.

Winner - (8) Heath Rise @10/11f [William Buick].

Staked -- 8 points.       Returns -- _ 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 returned and we are now back in the black to the tune of +39.555 points to a level stake at SP coming into our 20th meeting. Few places, but sadly no winners tonight so a wipe out of -8 points. Still leaves us with a +ve balance at SP of +31.555 points to carry on to next week.

Lays -- 21/28 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. Got them both beat again tonight so the stats are now 23/30.

Tonight's Lays;

18:25 - Silk Romance [7f Fillies 2yo Novice].  Lost 2nd @5/2

18:55 - Dubai Hope [7f Fillies Novice].  Lost 3rd @7/4

We will have another midweek floodlit meeting here on Wednesday 18th August so keep well and hopefully we can have a successful 2021.