17:15 Haydock
Saturday 10 June 2017
All13:4514:2014:5515:3016:0516:4017:15
Betway Mile Handicap
- 4YO plus | Class 3 | 1m 37y | Soft | 13 Runners | Turf | Weighed In
- Off time: 17:15 | Winning time: 1m 48.4s
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Former Andre Fabre inmate who has his first start for this yard today. Won twice on the All Weather at Chantilly, including over 7½f, though has it to prove from this mark on his handicap debut and also on the forecast soft ground.
All four of her wins have been on good or quicker ground, though she has gone close in softer conditions. Comes here after a 1m win (good to firm) at Pontefract last time from 7lb lower and that rise looks tough enough, but she should be capable of being thereabouts again.
Likeable gelding whose wins have largely been over this trip on a variety of surfaces. Goes into this 5lb below the most recent of those, which was almost a year ago, so the handicapper is giving him a chance. Return to softer conditions could be in his favour having won some races with cut in the ground earlier in his career and should go well.
Up 1lb for a really good effort to be beaten just a neck (1m½f, good to firm) at Hamilton last time, which is encouraging and she is still going the right way. Has won on good to soft too, so provided it isn't too testing for her, she looks capable of making an impact if she can overcome the wide draw.
2-19 career profile, both wins being over this trip on the All Weather at Chelmsford. Yet to race on geniuine soft ground, but has decent form in defeat on good to soft. 3lb lower than his last win but the chief concern is that he has shown no likelihood of a return to form since.
Has won on both soft and heavy ground, and over this trip, while she was beaten just a neck from 2lb lower at her favoured Newmarket in October. Usually needs a run to get going, however, and the fact that she comes here fresh is a bit of a concern.
Followed up a 7f Lingfield maiden win with success over C&D in September on his handicap debut (good). Is 5lb higher than that today, having not handled higher marks in two subsequent runs. The latter was not a bad pipe-opener where this race is concerned and his dam won on good to soft, so he could do better this time.
Yet to win over a trip this short, with all three successes in a good 2016 for him being over 1m4f-1m5f. 7lb rise for the last of those when he was last seen out in December means that a career best is needed here over an inadequate trip and on ground on which he is unproven, so there is more than enough for him to prove.
0-6 on turf, with all four wins being on All Weather surfaces. Races over his optimum trip, but is on a stiff enough mark and looks up against it here.
Has begun this season in great heart, winning all three starts over this trip. Steps up in class for a second time and looks capable of going close again, given the manner of his latest win, despite a 5lb rise. The only real concern is the soft ground, on which he has yet to race.
Won over 7f in a Brighton maiden (good) a couple of seasons ago when with Charlie Appleby but unable to repeat the feat and goes into this 12lb lower than he started for this trainer in March, having suffered four defeats over 6f-1m. Any support would raise an eyebrow, but otherwise best watched.
Thoroughly exposed with four wins at 7f/1m from 36 starts. Appears best on good/faster ground, though the last of those wins was on good to soft almost a year ago from 6lb higher. Has been cut some slack by the handicapper and yard is coming into form, but this softer ground and a wide draw are causes for concern.
Best form on good to firm or All Weather surfaces, so there has to be a doubt that he can run at his best on soft ground. Also goes into this from 2lb higher than his best winning mark and in a stronger race, so others are preferred.
Non-Runners
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(14)
Calder Prince8
Weight: 9-3| Age: 4
T: Tom Dascombe J: R Kingscote
NR
Forecasts
Commodity (5/2), Zwayyan (4/1), Red Tea (11/2), Ionization (7/1), I Am Not Here (12/1), Gabrial's Kaka (12/1), Little Lady Katie (12/1), Abushamah (14/1), Calder Prince (14/1), Strong Steps (22/1), Hammer Gun (25/1), Accurate (33/1), Baltic Prince (50/1), Mansfield (66/1)
Red Tea looks capable of being thereabouts in a race where plenty of them have questions to answer. Ionisation looks to have more scope for improvement than many and Commodity is clearly going to be popular chasing a four-timer, though he has the show that he can do it on this softer surface. Abushamah would enter calculations if things dried up a bit, but the suggestion is ZWAYYAN, who may be able to take a step back in the right direction this time.
- Zwayyan
- Ionization
- Commodity
Prize Money
1st: £9,704.002nd: £2,888.003rd: £1,443.004th: £722.00
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