Friday, April 25, 2008

Evening N.H. racing

There is N.H. racing this evening at Bangor and Chepstow, both in Wales, and at Newton Abbot; a glance a the map shows how ridiculous this constellaton is, with no racing at all in the north, east or south. At Bangor, Charlie Egeron´s Canalturn (Oliver Greenall) can take the maiden hurdle at 19.45 CET, while Quizzene (Alan King/ Gerard Tumelty) can follow up in the novice hurdle half an hour later. Royal Rationale (David Pipe/ Tom Scudamore) looks the likely winner of the maiden hurdle at 20.55 at Chepstow,m but the claiming chase there at 19.20 looks very tricky. Casalani (Jennie Candlish/ Lee Stephens) won a similar race recently at Uttoxeter from much higher-rated opposition, but in theory cannot hold Paul Nicholl´ Cerium (Liam Heard) - probably thre least succssful horse in the yard - and Chabrimal Minster (Richard Ford/ Timmy Murphy). Paul Nicholls may have better luc at Newton Abbot, where Oslot (Nick Scholfield) has only Templer (Philip Hobbs/ Darren O´Dwyer) to beat i the novice chase at 20.05. The novices handicap hurdle here at 19.35 looks very open; Michael Bell´s Rawdon (Charlie Huxley) ran quite well last time out and may be the answer to this puzzle