16:25 Southwell

Tuesday 13 March 2018

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Cheltenham Festival Betting At Betway Handicap

Off time: 16:25 | Winning time: 58.94s

(8)

Socialites Red^p⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 9-7| J: Gabriele Malune⁽⁵⁾| T: S Dixon| OR: 60| D

11/4

Made a pleasing and quite eye-catching return to action recently over C&D and she could make use of her lower AW mark in the near future. The jockey booking also takes the eye and she's one of the few that appeal here.

Form: 21237-3

(5)

Dapper Man²⁵

Age: 4| Weight: 9-6| J: Ben Sanderson⁽⁷⁾| T: R Fell & S Murray| OR: 59| D

7/2

Made his Fibresand debut recently and may well have needed the run and stepped up on that run on Tapeta last time out. Forced a strong pace on his last start but returns to Fibresand off a workable mark and should be included in calculations.

Form: 0862-54

(6)

Aragon Knight^v¹⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 9-4| J: Tom Marquand| T: M Appleby| OR: 57| D

12/1

Hovering around off a good mark for this yard and has already had a sighter on this surface over 6f. Ran as though he was badly amiss last time though when weakening quickly and has something to prove here.

Form: 789-030

(1)

Archie Stevens³

Age: 8| Weight: 9-1| J: Patrick Pilley⁽³⁾| T: C Ellam| OR: 54| CD

11/4

Has been in decent form of late on Fibresand over this trip although marks beyond his last winning one of 51 have proved just beyond him. Ran poorly last time out although he was outclassed and likely to come up short again.

Form: 23-6376

(2)

Kingstreet Lady^p⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 8-11| J: Barry McHugh| T: Mrs R Carr| OR: 50| BF

7/2

Looks the type that the yard will do well with and showed plenty of promise on her debut over C&D. Failed to build on that run in a 0-50 handicap last time and that throws up a slight doubt about whether she will be good enough here.

Form: 333-423

(4)

Sir Harry Collins^h1¹⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 8-7| J: Jane Elliott⁽⁵⁾| T: M Appleby| OR: 45

18/1

Remains a maiden and has run well below form on his last four starts proving a big disappointment the last time he was seen here. Best watched for now even in this grade.

Form: 448-880

(7)

Celerity^v⁹

Age: 4| Weight: 8-7| J: Shelley Birkett⁽³⁾| T: L Williamson| OR: 45

100/1

Back to this trip last time out on Fibresand she continues to show little that would want to make you support her. Out of the handicap here and fails to excite.

Form: 05-8094

Non-Runners

(9)

Grecian Divine¹⁷⁹

Weight: 9-7| Age: 4

T: J Tuite J: Oisin Murphy

(3)

Nuzha¹²²

Weight: 9-2| Age: 4

T: A G Newcombe J: Nicola Currie

Forecasts

Archie Stevens (11/4), Socialites Red (11/4), Kingstreet Lady (7/2), Dapper Man (7/2), Nuzha (8/1), Aragon Knight (12/1), Sir Harry Collins (18/1), Grecian Divine (20/1), Celerity (100/1)

Quite a few of these come into this with question marks against them and even the likely market leader – Kingstreet Lady – needs to bounce back from a disappointing effort in a basement grade over C&D last time. Archie Stevens should run his usual sound race but looks held off this mark and SOCIALITES RED should be able to make use of her mark here on the AW having made a promising return last time. Dapper Man is another who will appreciate a return to this surface and features off a mark that he should be competitive off while Grecian Divine will have to enter the equation if she runs here under a penalty after her Chelmsford win last night.