🐎 TUESDAY 8/12 VIP PICKS 

 

📍UTTOXETER 
• 12.30 - IN OUR DREAMS 11/1 ( 0.5 x EW) :  
Now someone may know something I don’t but, Alistair Ralph’s runner looks way overpriced here. 
Having bumped into useful sorts on his 2 hurdles starts to date finishing 2nd behind horses rated 121 & 123 respectively, an opening mark of 118 may well under estimate him on handicap debut and he steps up in trip looking totally unexposed and with plenty of scope for improvement. 
Granted, this doesn’t look the easiest contest again but a few of these have questions to answer and I fancy him to outrun his odds.. though the big drift is admittedly a slight concern. 
Angel of Harlem would obviously be a danger to all of recapturing her old form. 

• 1.00 -  DORISA QUEEN 5/2 (1.5pts) : 
Top course trainer and jockey combo the Skelton’s look for a brace with their mare in what looks a fairly weak contest. She arrives with a progressive profile and the 4length win at Stratford looks good in todays context, particularly the attitude she showed to pick up the bit having been pushed along quite early. 
While she does have soft ground to contend with for the first time, I think is probably still the one to beat in this field and I wouldn’t turn down this price. 
There is a big eye catcher in Doireann who’s just a 4yo! And trainer Stuart Edmonds feels ready to pitch straight into handicap company.. progressive in 3 starts all times finishing 3rd. Interesting to see if any money comes for her. 

• 2.00 - KALZARI 9/4 (1pt) : By far the most interesting runner in the field is David Pipe’s french import who made a creditable start on British soil when 3rd at Leicester and retains plenty of scope for improvement having clocked an RPR of 110 in her win at Compiegne. 
This filly will absolutely love the ground and gets a huge weight allowance from the field.. it’d be disappointing if she can’t make use of it here in a field where not many look winning in their current form. 
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📍 FONTWELL 
• 1.50 - FLAGRANT DILITEP 5/1 NAP (2pts) 
Robert Waldorf’s progressive chaser returns to the sphere having had a pole opener over hurdles on his seasonal reappearance. That run should have him fit as a fiddle for this race and under near ideal conditions he’s a strong fancy under top course jockey Harry Cobden who has a tidy 50% record when riding for Robert. 
Does look quite a competitive race to be fair but I think we’ve got the beating of these.. 
Kim Baileys runner is current fav and in off bottom weight, takes a rise in grade but could continue improving.  
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📍 SOUTHWELL 
• 4.30 MULZIM 16/1 (0.5pt x EW) : While it is mainly a watching brief on the new surface here today this lad I just couldn’t resist.  
A 6 time CD winner from 10 starts with form figures of 2311814111 and while the surface may have changed, there is something about this venue and I’m chancing a return to form.. 
He’s in off just 3lb higher than his last winning mark and on the same mark as when a close 2nd in a very hot handicap at York (one of our tracker speed balls Mondamejj was is behind that day and has since won 4 times). 
Draws in 13 which isn’t terrible, middle to high is preferable and hopefully get a decent break, had blown a few in his time. 

There are some promising 3yo’s in the field including the current fav Night On Earth and the likes of The unexposed Zarzyni also interesting. 

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