Horse Racing Tips: Nap of the Day
Matt Brocklebank has Thursday's best bets with the Nap running at Newmarket.
Thursday's selections
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NORTH VIEW - 1.50 Newmarket (NAP)
Peter Chapple-Hyam doesn't have a huge string by any means these days but he has a nice three-year-old here in NORTH VIEW, who looks well treated off an opening mark of 80 in Newmarket's opening sprint handicap. He was third to subsequent Acomb Stakes winner Indian Run on debut in an Ascot maiden and, after running an eye-catching second over seven furlongs on the July Course in August, dropped back to sprinting to open her account at Bath. The Newmarket form has already worked out well and been positively advertised this week, the runner-up Watcha Matey winning well off a mark of 79, and there's plenty to like about North View including his pedigree which suggests he'll improve with another winter on his back.
WINTERCRACK - 3.42 Ripon
WINTERCRACK won like a really well handicapped filly on her Pontefract comeback earlier in the month and looks to have go off lightly with a 6lb rise, the one-length winning margin in West Yorkshire not really doing justice to her superiority. She's going to love going back over 10 furlongs at Ripon, where the very testing ground is also absolutely ideal for Pam Sly's daughter of Cracksman.
FOUND ON - 4.25 Cheltenham
Martin Keighley's FOUND ON should really appreciate getting back on some decent ground and can outclass her rivals under top weight in the NAF Mares' Handicap Chase at Cheltenham. She's not the biggest but has all the battling qualities you'd look for in a racemare and she's now only 3lb higher than when winning under a big weight at Market Rasen in the autumn. Her second to Galia Des Liteaux after that was a decent effort in Listed company and I'm happy to scrap the last run on rain-hit ground at Kempton. She can bounce straight back here where she was successful over fences in October 2022.
HARB - 7.30 Chelmsford
HARB catches the eye eased in class and running off top weight in Chelmsford's six-furlong handicap. The five-year-old has won three sprint handicaps in the past couple of years, from marks of 69, 70 and 74, one of which came over this course and distance, so he's clearly on the right side of the assessor again off his current BHA perch of 67. Tom Queally, on board for the last of those victories at Sandown in September, returns to the saddle this evening and although stall nine probably isn't ideal, Harb has the pace to get out and across into a decent position from the outset.
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