Monday, June 23, 2008

Chepstow, Windsor and Kilbeggan this evening

Flat racing this evening comes from Chepstow in Wales and Windsor, while there is N.H. racing at Kilbeggan in Ireland.Most interesting horse on view at the last-named track is Noel Meade´s Rosaker (Paul Carberry), who runs in the beginners chase overt 3 miles 1 furlong at 21.00 CET. He is making his chase debut at the advanced age of 11, but on hurdles form (he is a five times Grade Two winner) he has stomes in hand over these opponents, best of whom may be Ted Walsh´s Battlefront, partnered by son Ruby, who is making his comeback after a lengthy suspension. At Windsor, the best race is the class 4 handicap for 3yo´s over 6 furlomngs a 20.40. Onceuponatime (Peter Chapple-Hyam/ Alan Munro) and Willie Muir´s We have a Dream, ridden by son-in-law Martin Dwyer, are both going for hat-tricks here. Dwyer has good prospects of winning the other 3yo handicap, half an hour later over a mile, on Marcus Tregoning´s Slip, an easy winner at Salisbury lastweek and racing off the same mark. Best betat Chepstow should be Victoria Reel (Richard Hannon/ Pat Dobbs) in the mile maiden at 21.20; she has been placed in both her starts ths season and today´s company looks much weaker than in those two Goodwood races.