Fine Form
Cupola WL – 4.20
can strike in the Weekly #5 Free Bet With The BetUK Fillies’ Novice Stakes at Wolverhampton.
Unraced at two, she saw a racecourse for the first time at Lingfield last month and while she had to settle for third, it was an eyecatching effort.
Slowly away and pushed along, she was left with loads of ground to make up on winner Sweet Couture who had enjoyed a freebie up front.
Clive Cox’s filly fairly powered home to be beaten just half a length and the experience will hopefully not be lost on her.
Elsewhere at Dunstall Park,
Mr Fustic WL – 8.00
is of interest in the BetMGM: Its Showtime Handicap. His career record shows a happy quirk of him winning again straight after getting his head in front – something that has happened twice in the past.
Another pick is
Starfighter WL – 8.00
in the Best Odds Guaranteed At BetMGM Handicap. He is something of a standing dish around here and has been in top form since the turn of the year, recording course win number five last time out.
A slight ease in grade can see
Liari TA – 4.10
open his account for the campaign in the South West Rail Solutions Ltd Handicap Hurdle at Taunton.
The French recruit won his first three starts last season for Paul Nicholls, including back-to-back victories in Listed company, but was disappointingly pulled up as a leading contender for the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
He has not been disgraced in three starts so far this term, picking up the bronze medal in decent handicaps at Chepstow and Musselburgh either side of finishing sixth in the Gerry Feilden at Newbury.
Liari travelled well in Scotland on New Year’s Day before seemingly failing to see out the two-and-a-half-mile trip, so dropping back to two miles, and with the handicapper having eased his mark 2lb to 127, everything points to a big run in Somerset.
The Venetia Williams-trained
Camulus TA – 3.35
gets the vote in the South West Rail Solutions Ltd Handicap Chase.
The eight-year-old was not winning out of turn when opening his account over fences at Leicester four weeks ago and a 6lb rise looks more than fair for a horse who may not have reached his ceiling yet.
Siog Geal MR – 2.20
is rated the best bet of the afternoon at Market Rasen.
Second in the Listed mares’ bumper at Cheltenham in November, the six-year-old
then beat a subsequent winner in Surrey Bell on her hurdling debut at Catterick before finishing fourth in a valuable race at Windsor on the Winter Million weekend.
She has less on her plate in the Watch On Racing TV EBF Mares National Hunt Novices’ Hurdle and should make the most of the opportunity.
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