Review of the day

There was no joy with either of todays tips at Leicester – though both ran really well…

First up it was Ballybough Pat, and when he broke away, with market leaders Algernon Pazham and Medeival Chapel, down the back straight, I was quite optimistic that we might get a result.

However, turning in, it became apparent that Algernon Pazham was running over his two rivals – and he came away up the straight for a comfortable win.

Ballybough Pat tired late on and was passed for third place after the last.

It was still a creditable performance from him – and he has every right to improve again for it.

Based on todays run, I don’t think he would mind a drop back to 2m4f, either..

An hour later, it was the turn of Lord Landen – and he ran a very similar race…

Still going nicely leaving the back straight, he seemed to have a fair chance jumping the third last, but then weakened out of things from that point.

It’s possible the ground was a bit softer than ideal for him – but I don’t want to make excuses, he ran a good race.

Slightly irritating was the winner, Valid Point.

I spent a lot of time looking at him last night, but just couldn’t get over his jumping frailties – and also thought he might have breathing issues.
If he does struggle breathing, then it wasn’t apparent this afternoon !

Just one final point:

It was interesting to note that Ballybough Pat was sent off a 6/1 shot (7.8 on BF): whilst Lord Landen was a 12/1 shot (14.39 on BF).
As I said this morning, you don’t want to be chasing these horses down too far in the market – most of them will bounce back to better odds, close to the off.

TVB.