No
joy with either of the tips this afternoon – and both showed, in their own way,
just why it is so difficult to stay ahead in this game…
Rhapando ran a really solid race in the novice handicap
chase – but I suspect he bumped into a plot horse, in the shape of the Mick Easterby trained, Saints and
Sinners.
Saints and Sinners had run 5 times over fences last
season – and whilst he had run creditably in defeat on a couple of occasions, he
didn’t look massively well handicapped.
Certainly, you would need to have known that he was fit
and fancied, in order to want to get involved at the 5/1 that was available this
morning.
Well, clearly plenty of people knew he was fit and
fancied as that price crashed into 3/1 at the off...
I
was kind of hoping that he would just be fit enough and fancied enough to run
into a place – but as I watched him cruising through the race, my sense of
foreboding grew…
Even
when Rhapando took up the running entering the home straight - and briefly
traded odds on in-running - I would still have preferred to be with Saint s and
Sinners.
And
so it turned out.
Rhapando was a tired horse when he fell at the last - he
didn’t deserve that – whereas Saints and Sinners crossed the line looking like
he could go round again – and he’d been off the track for 200 days !
It
was a different story with Crazy Jack…
As I
said this morning, it was difficult to know whether he was well handicapped or
not.
Well, judging from the ride he was given, I think
connections decided that if he couldn’t win on the bridle, he wasn’t going to
win.
Giving the outside away to no-one he wasn’t given an
unduly hard race.
His
mark will come down on the back of this – and I would almost guarantee he will
be a different proposition next time.
It’s
all very frustrating – but with no ‘inside’ knowledge, we just have to play the
percentages and hope for the best.
Today, I think we lost out to those who knew a bit more
than we did…
TVB.
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