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Rory Delargy and David Massey look ahead to Thursday's action and highlight their best bets.


Racing betting tips: Wednesday March 27

0.5pts e.w. Good Look Charm in 3.55 Wetherby at 17/2 (Unibet 1/5 1,2,3,4) - min 15/2

1pt win Retraction in 7.00 Southwell at 5/1 (bet365) - min 4/1

0.25pts reverse forecast Retraction/Landlordtothestars in 7.00 Southwell

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3:55 Wetherby

GOOD LOOK CHARM was a bit below-par at Kempton last time out, but the Full Circle Series At Punchestown Festival Handicap Hurdle represents a real step down the grading ladder and it has to be of some interest that Anthony Honeyball sends her all the way up to Wetherby from his Dorset base, his only runner on the card and to a track where he’s 3-9 with his travellers over the past five years.

She’s looked a happier horse this season since reverting to hurdles, and although there’s little wriggle room in her mark, she still looks capable of winning from it, and can go close here.

7:00 Southwell

King Of York will be well fancied to follow up his win here last week in the second division of the Stay Golden With BetMGM Safer Gambling Handicap, but the drop back to 7f seemed instrumental in bringing about the best in him that day, and returning to a mile isn’t certain to see him in the same form.

Regardless of that, he has nothing in hand of RETRACTION on their form here from earlier in the month, and the latter is now 5lb better off for half a length tonight, so is taken to turn the form around.

Ruth Carr remains in cracking form and James Sullivan is riding at the top of his game, so there’s plenty to like about his chances, particularly as he’s unexposed after just the four starts, and ought to improve for that latest outing, his first since leaving James Horton in the autumn.

With a few of these running at either the wrong trip, or out of their paygrade, there is also some value to be had in including the ultra-consistent Landlordtothestars in exotics.

James Evans’s gelding likes it here at Southwell where he can put his long stride to good use in the straight, and for all the handicapper has him about right, he looks pretty much guaranteed to give his running again.

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8:30 Southwell

The drop back to 6f for Showtime Mahomes looks a slight negative at first glance, given he seemed to need 7f for much of the second half of last season, but there’s plenty of pace on here through the likes of Safari Dream and Antiphon, and I have a feeling that, on his return after a break, he might well get away with it.

He kept his form really well throughout the latter part of 2023 and his record after a 100+day absence reads a close third in a very competitive York event and a length second at Ripon on his return last year. Unlucky not to finish closer than an eye-catching seventh on his only start at Southwell where he got no room, and ran on well once out in the clear, it isn’t hard to see him going well.

Patontheback is the other worth mentioning. Also dropping back from 7f to 6f tonight, he hails from the in-form Gemma Tutty yard.

A C&D winner, he too can go well fresh and after a couple of poor efforts last autumn, has wisely been given a break and is back on the same mark as when narrowly beaten at Musselburgh last August.

Posted at 0925 GMT on 28/03/24


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