Wednesday Review

A great start to a fantastic days racing today, there were decent winners everywhereso hope you showed a profit on the day. I signed up for RacingUK online so I could watch the action. It is a shame that Channel4 have ceased their coverage of the racing this week, a disgrace really but RacingUK proved invaluable and NO adverts to suffer and now I can watch past videos of races without having to suffer the ATR website. Another tool added to the armoury ;-)

Newmarket

150 Native Ruler was a lay for me here at evens and a very small e/w on Horsley Warrior didn't affect the P&L on the race. Gosden's runner won well and gave me confidence for his runners later on the card. Dettori once again showed that he 'owns' at this track. A small lesson here was to be satisfied with the lay and don't try to pick the winners of early-season maidens ;-) It also gave me hope to take on Cecil's runner in the Fielden. He tends to do better with his fillies fresh I feel.

225 Top-rated Monsieur Chevalier was seriously impressive here and looks a sprinter to follow for his in-form yard and I'm just glad he started odds-against ;-)

300 Great result. Popmurphy was a non-runner so Nehaam was my only bet in the race and I could not believe the drift. I could see he was on his toes in the paddock but he went down to the start really well yet still drifted. 8/1 was a great return and I also managed to get 11's on Betfair. Poor show from the Godolphin runner but not entirely unexpected and same for the O'Brien runner as (Guineas aside) he tends to get his runners ready to peak around later in the season.

335 As expected Art Connoiseur ran no sort of race and the trainer was seriously downbeat about his chances this morning on ATR which just goes to show how important it is to pay attention to every piece of news. Unfortunately, Penny's Gift found a couple too good but still nothing was lost with the each-way best. Ouqba gave a serious boost to the Dewhurst form while Courageous did exactly the opposite for the Racing Post Trophy/Crowded House form. Again, this showed that there is nobody better than Barry Hills at producing one after a long absence, especially at Newmarket and it gave me encouragement for Redwood in the Fielden.

410 Very impressive performance from Fantasia who was fully entitled to win this athough I have to admit I put a small lay in at very short odds 'just in case' but nothing serious as I expected her to win.

440 Redwood won very well despite being outpaced and the whispers were spot on with this one. I had a little on for the Derby at 46 on Betfair before the race so am happy with that as he stayed on takingly, clocked comparatively the best time of the day and Barry Hills' 300th winner, a great achievement.

520 Barry Hills with a treble on the day and another winner for the Gainsborough stud colours and Richard Hills. I should have spotted this one but it's been a long day and I tend not to get too involved in maidens but I was peeved I didn't re-assess this race.

555 The market drift on Definightly was significant while the support for the Candy runner Dark Mischief was equally significant. I backed it in the end after listening to Hugh Taylor's analysis on ATR this morning but only to small stakes and it was only a small profit on the race in the end.

Cheltenham

210 Was right to lay Torpichen who was just too short at 8/13 and a bonus with the back of Tasheba being successful to boot.

245 I didn't cover this race on the preview but top-rated Boychuk scored at 17/2 and I managed to snag 11's on Betfair which was an amazing price.

320 Poor run from Dave's Dream here but with the withdrawal of top-rated Polomoche it moved Eleazar up to 2nd on the ratings and that one placed at 18/1. In future I am going to post the top-3 for each race in case of non-runners from the top-2.

355 Private Be had a strange ride but Atouchbetweenacara was seriously impressive, faultless jumping which was not the case when she fell twice from her previous 4 runs but clearly Venetia Williams is still on fire.

430 Bench Warrent was well backed and snuck into a place after being well supported in the morning.

Over at Beverley Fol Hollow did the business in the 3:10 after taking full advantage of the high draw. Labisa actually became a lay in the 455 when it went odds-on so that was a good result as it was beaten into 2nd. New Beginning ran 2nd in the 3:45.