13:50 Warwick

Monday 24 April 2017

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188 First Goals Wins At 188Bet Maiden Hurdle

  • 4YO plus  |   Class 4  |   2m 5f  |   Good  |   7 Runners  |   Turf  |   Weighed In
  • Off time: 13:50  |   Winning time: 5m 8.20s
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Cloth number
Odds
Horse A-Z
Show odds
1
Horse silk
Abbotswoodt163
Age: 6|  Weight: 11-0| J: R Johnson| T: C E Longsdon
11/10
Winner of a point-to-point at the second time of asking in March last year. Signs of promise over 2m4f when a 22L fourth on debut at Aintree in October. Disappointed the following month and likely to run well back on better ground here..
2
Horse silk
Annie'sboydavet125
Age: 7|  Weight: 11-0| J: Thomas Bellamy| T: P A Pritchard| OR:  64
100/1
Maiden after nine career outings. Pulled up four times prior to finishing a well beaten tenth in a first time tongue tie at Taunton in December and likely to struggle here.
4
Horse silk
Bradford Bridge25
Age: 5|  Weight: 11-0| J: M G Nolan| T: P Hobbs & J White| OR:  115
13/8
Beaten 11L when finishing runner-up over an extended 2m3f at Hereford (soft) in November. Fair handicap debut at Wincanton upped in trip subsequently but disappointed in a maiden hurdle at Taunton last month. Also placed at Newton Abbot this season and likely to prove hard to beat if repeating earlier efforts.
5
Horse silk
Midnight Merlot52
Age: 5|  Weight: 11-0| J: Ian Popham| T: Noel Williams
12/1
Beaten 30L when finishing third on soft ground at Leicester in January. Well beaten at Newbury since and likely to fair better once tackling handicap company.
6
Horse silk
Speedalongh,t25
Age: 6|  Weight: 11-0| J: Nick Scholfield| T: J Scott
16/1
Beaten 34L in first time tongue tie and hood for a maiden hurdle at Taunton last month. Finished in fourth place on that occasion but looks likely to prove capable of better in this.
7
Horse silk
West To Crossgales7
Age: 6|  Weight: 11-0| J: A Pogson| T: C T Pogson
50/1
Winner of a maiden point-to-point at the fourth time of asking in Ireland on good-to-firm ground in May last year. Attempted to make all but pulled up on his rules debut at Market Rasen last week and probably best watched here.
8
Horse silk
Sugar Stormt21
Age: 6|  Weight: 10-7| J: P J Brennan| T: F O'Brien
12/1
Started big prices for all three starts to date. Wore a first time tongue tie (retained here) when 31L fifth on her hurdling debut at Huntingdon earlier this month. Worth a check in the market here.

Non-Runners

3
Horse silk
Barbrook Star44
Weight: 11-0|  Age: 5
T: P Hobbs & J White  J: Conor Smith
NR

Forecasts

Abbotswood (11/10), Bradford Bridge (13/8), Barbrook Star (8/1), Midnight Merlot (12/1), Sugar Storm (12/1), Speedalong (16/1), West To Crossgales (50/1), Annie'sboydave (100/1)

Verdict

BRADFORD BRIDGE is taken to put a disappointing effort in a maiden hurdle over 2m3f behind him by taking this opening contested dropping down in trip. The selection is currently rated 115 following a disappointing effort last time out but his yard are in good form at present (6/27) and he can get the better of Abbotswood who ran well in a maiden hurdle at Aintree in October with Speedalong another to note following a fourth placed finished last time out.
  1. Bradford Bridge
  2. Abbotswood
  3. Speedalong

Prize Money

1st: £3,899.002nd: £1,145.003rd: £572.004th: £286.00

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