KEMPTON PARK HORSE RACING 2021 - MEETING #27 WEDNESDAY 20th OCTOBER

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 push on through the autumn still in profit and now less than three months of the season left to go. The second of the NFL games took place in London last Sunday when Miami Dolphins took on Jacksonville Jaguars at the Tottenham Stadium, a rare win for the Jaguars in the final second of the game. Cheltenham NH meetings are coming up this week too as the jumps season begins in earnest, AFC Wimbledon hosted a game against Sheffield Wednesday coming back from two down to secure a two all draw we then travelled to Lincoln City on Tuesday night and won 1-0 with an early Aaron Pressley penalty enough for the three points.

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 went a little behind in July but now we are back in front during September and looking okay through into October we've seen the profit for the season rise to +37.305 points with a small success coming at the last meeting and 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 29/39 (74.35%) after another success at the latest meeting and we shall see how things progress during the year ahead. 

This week will be our 27th Wednesday evening meeting of the year. Tonight's meeting we shall be expecting an eight race card with the division of the 7f fillies novice event, we will have four handicaps including a 2yo nursery contest. Therefore our action will now commence at 16:55 with the opening auction stakes over just under mile and half, then we should end the card around about 20:30 with the final handicap event over six 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 somewhat cloudy afternoon and early evening with a fair chance of showers in the forecast and a highest expected temperature of around 17C tonight.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

17:30  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Nursery Handicap (2yo)

6f  [Class 6  12 runners]

Our opening handicap is a 2yo nursery contest where the well bred filly Vintage Fashion [8th @22/1] represents the Mark Johnston yard, seems to have slowly improved with each of her three runs to date and doesn't seem to have an overly harsh opening handicap mark for this. Would also have an interest in Psychic Change [12th @33/1] ran midfield here in a novice stakes over the trip, still could be in the mix for trainer David Menuisier.
Winner - (9) Edge Nibras @5/1 [Ray Dawson].

19:30  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Handicap
7f  [Class 4  13 runners]

Rogue Force [9th @25/1] won his maiden here and has found his opening handicap mark a struggle at times, though the addition of Neil Callan might help bring about some improvement and back to this course and surface could oblige at attractive odds. At the bottom of the handicap tonight is May Night [WON @10/1], and Andrew Balding's 3yo ought to prefer this surface to the heavy going encountered last time. Won here back in March, and placed since off this mark so still in with a chance with champion jockey Oisin Murphy the man in the saddle.
Winner - (14) May Night @10/1 [Oisin Murphy].

20:00  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap

6f  [Class 4  11 runners]

Robert Cowell sends Temple Bruer [9th @33/1] here on the same mark as his runner up effort last time at Wolves, was staying on at the finish then although the winner was well away, has run well at Ffos Las before then, shouldn't be far off. Touchwood [WON @11/1] another consistent 3yo running well this season and still on a workable handicap mark with Hollie Doyle a positive booking for tonight.
Winner - (8) Touchwood @11/1 [Hollie Doyle].

20:30  Unibet Casino Deposit 10 Get 40 Bonus Handicap
6f  [Class 6  9 runners]

With Bama Lama now a non runner Iesha [2nd @7/1] is the pick now for our finale, back at this track where she scored at 80/1 and has generally ran well thereafter, never that far off the pace will see if the return to this course sparks another revival while will also have an interest with Mellencamp [3rd @14/1] too, low starting point for handicaps and Oisin Murphy an interesting booking for this one, not a deep race and should go well at a nice price, hopefully Oisin can get a good tune out of him.

Winner - (7) Bomb Squad @15/2 [Sophie Jones].

Staked - 8 points.       Returns - 23 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 +37.805 points to a level stake at SP coming into this week's 27th meeting. A nice 10/1 winner ensures a profit tonight, then Hollie wins at 11/1 and we've the final race still to enjoy. Got the 2 places in the finale but a +15 point profit tonight so we have a healthy +52.805 points going forward.

Lays -- 29/39 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 into the final few months of the year, and they are generally very short prices, including another successful fav beaten during the last few meetings. The plan will be for at least one or two each meeting and we will keep those results separate from the handicaps. Fav beaten tonight so that's us on 30/40 now

Tonight's Lays;

18:00 - Lady Xenia  [7f 2yo Fillies Novice]  Lost 6th @5/2f

We will have another midweek floodlit meeting here on Wednesday 27th October so keep well and hopefully we can have a successful 2021.