Thursday, November 12, 2009

All-weather racing at Southwell and Wolverhampton

Two all-weather meetings today, this afternoon at Southwell, and this evening at Wolverhampton. All 8 races at Southwell are class 5 or 6, so there is not much to excite the connoisseur, but the much-improved Angie´s Nap (Phil McEntee/ Chris Catlin) can complete a course four-timer in the 2yo seller at 15.20 CET. The best betting race here is the 5 furlongs handicap at 16.50, with familiar faces and CD specialists in the field of 14. Milton Bradley´s pair Lithaam and Cape Royal as well as Guto all come into this category, but our suggestion is top-weight Tartatafutata; Jams Given´s mare has not won for ages but has a good record here and has come down
quite a bit in the weights. She was left at the post last time though no fault of her own and make up for that mishap now. The quality is slightly better at Wolverhampton, and in view of Godolphin´s amazing strike rate (2 runners and 2 winners again yesterday) we expect another double for the boys in blue with Nafura in the 2yo handicap at 18.50 and Naseehah in the 9 furlongs handícap half an hour later, both partnered by Ted Durcan and both easy CD winners last time out.