DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING
WEDNESDAY JUNE 25
2.03 WORCESTER
JET OF DREAMS (NAP) (best price 3-1) is holding his form together nicely and following another solid placed effort here last time out, Warren Greatrex’s inmate looks in line to record chase win number five in the last year.
A proper fast ground horse who doesn’t have anything to do with the depths of winter, the seven-year-old re-entered the fray with a victory at Chepstow two starts ago and although he failed in his bid to repeat the dose over today’s C&D last time out, the combination of a bad mistake two out and trying to run down stiffer opposition proved his undoing.
Although he remains in Class 4 company, this 0-110 looks slightly weaker on paper than the 0-120 he encountered 43 days ago and with drying conditions to suit, the most consistent performer in the field looks booked to for another positive result.
JET OF DREAMS – 1-point win@3-1
6.00 KEMPTON
STELLA HOGAN (best price 7-1) blew any chance she had at Chelmsford last time out with a terrible start but she is afforded another go back at a track where her form figures read 8132121.
Michael Appleby’s mare has been a little troublesome leaving the gates in the past, but not quite to the same levels she was at the Essex track and under the circumstances, she did remarkably well to finish fourth considering she was a long way back in the early stages.
Prior to that misdemeanour 20 days ago, the five-year-old was on her best behaviour with yet another victory at her happy hunting ground and providing she doesn’t put herself completely behind the eight ball at stalls exit, she has the ability to easily make her presence felt against this sort of company.
STELLA HOGAN – ½ point each-way@7-1 (four places)
6.40 NAAS
AND SO TO BED (best price 8-1) stepped up markedly on her below-par seasonal bow with an altogether much more positive display at Gowran last time out and based on that effort and the pick of her form last term as a juvenile, Joseph O’Brien’s filly has brighter prospects of landing her first pattern race than her odds imply.
Clearly badly in need of the run on her first outing for seven months at the Curragh, the daughter of Kodiac went in search of the big bucks in a valuable contest at the Kenny venue last time and if it wasn’t for stable mate Green Triangle, she would have landed a cool 108k.
Runner up to Oaks second, Whirl, in a Group 3 last season, she has a body of work to suggest a race of this nature is well within her range and with a step up in trip and ground in her favour, it would be dangerous to leave her out of calculations.
AND SO TO BED – ½ point each-way@8-1