KEMPTON PARK FLOODLIT HORSE RACING 2022 - MEETING #7 WEDNESDAY 23rd FEBRUARY

 

Welcome to Kempton Park racecourse as we begin 2022 with a fresh season of Wednesday evening meetings on the all weather flat track under the lights. We had a decent 2021 here on these Wednesday nights with a profit for the year to SP and shall aim for further success in 2022. More football for me this weekend when AFC Wimbledon continue with their fight against relegation with an away trip to Bolton Wanderers last Saturday but got thumped 4-0 there then on Tuesday night we have another trip to Gillingham. We are still recovering from the recent storms too and generally not feeling very well at all.

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. Last season saw an overall profit for the year to the tune of +25.465 points to SP. We will continue to keep a record to SP throughout the season again so far we have been reasonable successful bar one meeting that was a wipe-out it still means we see a +12.533 points profit to take through to week seven.

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 38/52 (73.07%). We shall reset everything for the new year so that 2022 will begin afresh as it should be. Started well enough with another successful lay last time around means we are now 8/10 (80%) after the opening meetings and hopefully we will have another successful season from January - December.

Tonight's meeting will be our 7th Wednesday evening twilight fixture year. This meeting appears to have a six race card to enjoy, with five of these handicaps on the card at present, will see if any races are divided later. We will begin late in the afternoon with our opening race which will now commence at 17:30 it's the opening handicap for apprentice jockey's contest over a mile, then we should end the card around about 20:00 with our final handicap over 10f+.

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, but dry into the early evening while the temperature is not likely to get much higher than around 10C tonight.

Here are our handicap selections for tonight;

17:30  Unibet Horserace Betting Operator Of The Year Apprentice Handicap

1m  [Class 4  9 runners]

Owing to ill health haven't had the time to update things today, will put up basic selections only and hopefully will feel better soon. Tricolore [7th @16/1]  /  Proclaimer [Won @9/2].

Winner - (7) Proclaimer @9/2  [Oisin McSweeney].

18:00  Unibet Handicap (Div One)

7f  [Class 5  9 runners]

Rajmeister [4th @9/1]  /  Port Noir [7th @7/1].

Winner - (1) Thapa VC @11/8  [Rob Hornby].

18:30  Unibet Handicap (Div Two)

7f  [Class 5  9 runners]

Los Comachos [6th @14/1]  /  Blue Flame [2nd @7/4].

Winner - (2) Sayifyouwill @9/1  [Rob Hornby].

19:00  Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap

6f  [Class 4  11 runners]

Durdle Door [9th @4/1]  /  Enduring [3rd @6/1].

Winner - .

19:30  Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Handicap (3yo)

6f  [Class 4  8 runners]

Golden Warrior [Won @4/1]  /  Shanko [2nd @11/4].

Winner - .

20:30  Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap

1m 2f 219y  [Class 4  8 runners]

Our finale on tonight's card, is a mid distance handicap.  Affwonn [4th @17/2]  /  Sage Advice [7th @20/1]
Winner - .

Staked - 12 points.       Returns - 10.5 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. A winning start to 2022 has been reasonably good for the opening couple of months and we are still up by +12.533 points to SP returns coming into week seven.

Lays - 8/10 Looking for another good season 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.

Tonight's Lays;

There are no Lay selections tonight.

We will have more midweek floodlit meetings in 2022, our next meeting will be held here on Wednesday 2nd March. Keep well.