17:15 Windsor
Monday 24 April 2017
All16:4517:1517:4518:1518:4519:1519:45
Sky Bet Horseracing Cash Out Handicap
- 4YO plus  |  Class 4  |  5f 10y  |  Good to Firm (Watered)  |  9 Runners  |  Turf  |   Weighed In
- Off time: 17:19Â Â |Â Â Winning time: 58.41s
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Consistent handicapper last year who ended the season with a handicap win in a better race than this. Won his maiden over this C&D and should go close here if not needing the run on his first racecourse appearance since Dark Shot.
Former Sapphire Stakes winner and King's Stand second who has shown some of his old talent since his sights have been lowered from big handicaps last year. Career low mark now and has to be feared based on what he's achieved.
Won this last year in his only win of the 2016 campaign but is only 2lb higher now having not disgraced himself for the remainder of last year. Claims now returned to a C&D he enjoys.
Ran some fair races in 2016 despite drawing a blank overall and has since moved to a new trainer. Clearly retains some ability and his handicap mark doesn't look impossible to overcome, but others seem more likely winners here.
Narrowly beaten went sent off favourite at Wolverhampton last time. A 1lb rise seems fair (he probably would have won if he hadn't hung left close home) and with two runs so far this year he should have a fitness advantage over many of these.
Three-time winner but none of those have come since moving from Clive Brittain's to his current yard. Most of his recent form is unexciting, including when refusing to race two starts ago, and his is easily passed over here.
Hasn't won since a maiden victory at Haydock on debut as a two-year-old and he continues to show next to nothing despite a continuously sinking handicap mark. There's a good chance that that win was all he has to offer.
Has improved rapidly since last summer, being raised 25lb by the handicapper since August, but he does seem to just keep on improving. Only won by a short head last time but he raced keenly that day and can do better here, if overcoming an absence since August.
C&D winner who has shown her liking for this course on a number of occasions, including when being only narrowly denied a second victory here in October. Remains on the same mark now and a repeat performance would see her go close.
Forecasts
Dark Shot (5/2), Stepper Point (9/2), Stake Acclaim (9/2), Excellent George (9/2), Stormflower (10/1), Bahamian Heights (14/1), Waseem Faris (16/1), Secretfact (16/1), King Of Swing (22/1)
There are a couple of old hands who could go well here including Stepper Point, a former Group 2 winner who was placed behind Sole Power in the 2015 King's Stand at Royal Ascot. He has lost his way over the past couple of years but he is responding to his gradually lowering handicap rating and could go well here off a career-low mark. He's vulnerable to a younger, improving type in this though and SECRETFACT fits the bill. This gelding has been improving at a rate of knots since last summer, having gone up 25lb since August, and though a 6lb rise for a short-head victory at Bath last time may seem harsh he and the runner-up were clear of the third and he raced keenly in the early stages suggesting that there could be even more to come. The consistent Dark Shot could prove third-best.
- Secretfact
- Stepper Point
- Dark Shot
Prize Money
1st: £4,690.002nd: £1,396.003rd: £697.004th: £349.00
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