DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29
2.20 LINGFIELD
VOLEDAM ran a good deal better than the bare result suggests at Wolverhampton last time out and she is fancied to confirm that impression in a race that appears well within her range.
Tony Carroll’s filly broke well and was in a perfect position heading into the first corner at the Dunstall Park circuit, but as soon as the runners went down the back straight, she somehow found herself inexplicably on the wide outside with no cover.
As a result, she expended valuable energy for the thick end of half a mile and meant her finishing effort wasn’t as potent as it might have been otherwise.
That said, she didn’t totally drop out through the back of the tv, keeping on well to hold onto fourth, and with the speed figure and subsequent victory of the winner, How’s The Guvnor, suggesting the form is pretty watertight, a big run is expected over a C&D where she has run well in the past.
VOLEDAM – 1-point win@3-1
2.43 AYR
Not a great deal between Stede Bonnet and SANILAM based on our figures, so the obvious play is to back the latter each-way and hope the dead eight runners go to post.
SANILAM – 1-point each-way@5-1
3.43 AYR
A wide open-looking handicap chase with a multitude of possible angles and a chance is taken on GREAT PEPPER springing a bit of a surprise.
The main reason for having a small involvement in Jimmy Moffat’s gelding comes from the fact he ran extremely well for a long way in a race a good deal better than the one he faces today over the same course 27 days ago and in-keeping with the speed figure, the race has worked out accordingly.
Subsequent events have seen the third, Jipcot, go on to score impressively next time, and even the eighth, Young Jack, who finished 46 lengths behind at the Scottish venue, almost followed suit at Newcastle on Tuesday.
Still travelling as well as anything down to two out, it was at this point when the son of Great Pretender started to wilt but allowing for the fact it was his first real run in anger for a while (unseated early in his first outing for 212 days), his effort deserved plenty of praise.
Back down in trip and on ground he has handled numerous times to success in the past, the eight-year-old is too big a price to ignore.
GREAT PEPPER – ½ point each-way@14-1