Today’s best bets, by Greg Wood
The seven-furlong fillies’ handicap at Leicester this afternoon was the standout race on the programme overnight, but three non-runners have arrived already this morning and all three – Pavillon, Cheval Blanche and Parlance – were very plausible winners.
As a result, it is difficult to see beyond John Gosden’s Cashla Bay (3.20) – who has an entry in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot next month – as the winner, since the form of her maiden win at the end of last year has worked out well. Her current price of around 11-8 seems perfectly fair in a race that will not take as much winning as it should for a £6,500 prize.
The six-furlong handicap at the end of the card is also restricted to three-year-old fillies and has also lost three runners, but Everkyllachy (5.20) remains in what is now an 11-horse race and could be a big price at around 12-1. There is no outstanding candidate in the field, and the top-weight Ventura Blues, a course-and-distance winner last June, is not the most convincing of favourites based on her comeback run at Kempton Park in April. She probably needed that race after 10 months off, but Everkyllachy offers recent winning form, having found some improvement to break her maiden at Yarmouth last time out in a race run in a respectable time.
The price about George (1.50) in the opening maiden also looks big as he lines up against the odds-on chance Westerland, who was just a neck in front of him when both horses made their racecourse debuts in what is generally a strong event at Newbury last month.
Both ran with promise and both should improve for the experience, so the price of around 14-1 for George makes much more appeal, as an each-way bet if nothing else, than 4-5 about John Gosden’s runner.
At Lingfield, Sandfrankskipsgo (4.10) is not getting any better at eight years of age but goes well over today’s track and trip and remains fairly weighted on recent form. Whitecrest (4.40) has won three times already this month and should make it four on the same card, while at Redcar, Extrasolar (4.00), who has the cheekpieces back on, did enough last time out to suggest he can take the sprint handicap off bottom weight.
Tuesday’s racing tips
Lingfield Park
2.10 Whispered Kiss 2.40 A Sure Welcome 3.10 Gigi 3.40 Glorvina 4.10 Sandfrankskipsgo 4.40 Whitecrest 5.10 Starshell
Leicester
1.50 George 2.20 Prince Ahwahnee 2.50 Black Bubba 3.20 Cashla Bay 3.50 Vernatti 4.20 Quayside 4.50 Borough Boy 5.20 Everkyllachy (nb)
Newton Abbot
5.50 Whatzdjazz 6.20 Day Of Roses 6.50 Volpone Jelois 7.20 Mexican Border 7.50 Gold Mountain 8.20 Lapford Lad 8.50 Rebel Rebellion
Redcar
2.00 Dance Diva 2.30 Dirty Randy 3.00 Im Dapper Too 3.30 Pattie 4.00 Extrasolar 4.30 Logi 5.00 Our Place In Loule
Wolverhampton
6.10 Absolutely Awesome 6.40 Jaalboot 7.10 Dhalam 7.40 Ghadaayer 8.10 Little Stampy 8.40 Snookered 9.10 Powered
