DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18
2.55 KELSO
MOON PHASES (NAP) (best price 11-4) has exhibited a fair degree of promise in two starts over hurdles and with connections clear in not wasting any more time over the smaller obstacles, Lucinda Russell & Michael Scudamore’s inmate is fancied to make a bigger impact over fences.
The six-year-old has earned an opening mark of 105 thanks to those two efforts and his latest one at Ayr three weeks ago was easily his best on the figures.
Although no match for the highly regarded winner in a well-run affair, Upon Tweed, time may tell he faced an opponent worthy of graded level further down the track and the way he kept on once outpaced by the winner was encouraging for future assignments of less magnitude.
Just to prove the value of the form/speed figure, the sixth home that day, Highland Fashion, beaten 27 lengths, went on to land a handicap off a mark of 108 at Newcastle four days ago and providing the son of Ol’ Man River takes to his new vocation at the first time of asking, he has the ability to follow suit in his bid to qualify for the final of this series.
MOON PHASES – 1-point win@11-4