KEMPTON PARK HORSE RACING 2021 - MEETING #28 WEDNESDAY 27th 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 only a couple more months of the season left to go. Elsewhere over the weekend gone we went to see AFC Wimbledon play against Wigan Athletic sadly losing 0-2 and will travel to Cambridge next Saturday and there's also been a few days of racing over the jumps at Cheltenham with F1 action later on over the pond at the US Grand Prix with another win for Max Verstappen and the season could well go to the wire.

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 throughout October we've seen the profit for the season rise to +52.805 points with further 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 30/40 (75%) after another success at the latest meeting and we shall see how things progress during the year ahead. 

This week will be our 28th Wednesday evening meeting of the year. Tonight's meeting we shall be expecting an eight race card now with the split of the 7f novice stakes, we will still have five handicaps including a 2yo nursery contest. Therefore our action will now commence at 16:40 with the opening claiming race over six furlongs, then we should end the card around about 20:15 with the final handicap event over just under two miles 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;

17:15  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Nursery (2yo)

6f  [Class 5  11 runners]

Our opening handicap is a 2yo nursery event, the second race on the card today, where our first selection will be Helvetique [2nd @9/2]. Has run well twice at Nottingham when runner up and they came after a win at Chepstow earlier in the season. Only had the one run on any all weather surface and that was on debut at Chelmsford hopefully will have a better run this time. Also looking closely at Iskaheen [8th @17/2], trained by Dennis Coakley, only had four runs including a 125/1 placing at Windsor, is looking to be around 14/1 here tonight and will be of interest in the place market again.
Winner - (3) Wild Mountain @14/1 [Oisin Murphy].

18:45  Unibet Casino Deposit 10 Get 40 Bonus Handicap

1m  [Class 5  13 runners]

The mile contest has a field of fourteen, headed by hat trick seeking Proclaimer [WON @10/3], has two recent wins here for trainer Julie Camacho and only 4lb higher than the last of those likely to make another bold bid again. Florence Street [2nd @9/2] (Andrew Balding) might be close up again having run second at Bath off a similar mark. Owned by Sir Alex Ferguson and has the assistance of Oisin Murphy in the saddle, the 3yo filly is likely to be well supported here.
Winner - (1) Proclaimer @10/3 [R Kingscote].

19:15  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap (3yo)

1m 3f 219y  [Class 3  6 runners]

Only seven runners though the Godolphin blue is carried by the first three here and it's Marching Army [Non Runner] that could well be the pick of these trio. He won another small race here last month and up 5lb for that effort, still could be the one to beat. Nadein [5th @13/2] has been lightly raced for Roger Charlton but his 3yo filly has already won at Catterick when well backed and probably found the 2m trip too far at Ffos Las, should be more at home here and the small field won't trouble her, decent price this time.
Winner - (4) Stay Well @6/1 [Rob Hornby].

19:45  Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap

1m 3f 219y  [Class 5  9 runners]

Another competitive contests, field headed by Hashtagmetoo  for trainer Jamie Osborne who often does well here, a Bath win followed up by creditable efforts at the same venue and then at Wolves, likely to be close up. Victory Star makes his handicap debut, Mark Johnson's inmate won at Beverley and might have a fairly generous handicap mark to exploit as they step up in trip here.
Winner - (6) Liberated Lad @11/2 [R Kingscote].

20:15  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Handicap
1m 7f 218y  [Class 4  9 runners]

Over to the stayers to end tonight's meeting, Dance To Paris [4th @10/3]  is the first to peek our interest the 5yo mare is a course and distance winner and also won at York earlier in the season but was way out of her depth in the Cesarewitch at Newmarket last time and ought to show a lot better form tonight. Sarim [8th @9/1] is another to consider here despite not seeing the racecourse this season till now, Hollie Doyle a positive jockey booking for a horse that was narrowly defeated here at a big price.

Winner - (2) Author's Dream @10/3 [Oisin Murphy].

Staked - 10 points.       Returns - 5.33 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 +52.805 points to a level stake at SP coming into this week's 28th meeting. Not enough success tonight, so a small loss of -4.67 points, reducing our overall season profit down to +48.135 points. 

Lays -- 30/40 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. One fav won at odds on, the other got well beat, so that's us on 31/42.

Tonight's Lays;

17:45 - Great Hunter [7f Novice Stakes]. Won @4/6F

19:15 - Candleford [12f 3yo Handicap].  Lost 5th @5/4F

We will have another midweek floodlit meeting here on Wednesday 3rd November so keep well and hopefully we can have a successful 2021.