Review of the day

I don’t know about you guys, but I find 25/1 winners, so last year…

33/1 winners are the thing nowadays !

Or maybe even 40/1 if you hung fire for a few minutes and waited for the price reversion, as that was the price Anteros was available in 3 places, just after 8:30 this morning.

Bizarrely, he was available even bigger in running (I took 50 !) – yet to my eyes, he was always travelling like the winner…

I think everyone else had latched on to the other tip in the race, Corrin Wood.

And in fairness, he ran a mighty race.

Coming round the home turn tho, the writing was on the wall for him, as Anteros swept majestically past.

Rons Dream last year: Anteros this – it was soon be overtaking the Devon Marathon as my favourite race in the calendar !

Corrins Wood stayed on stoutly to claim an honourable second – which was brilliant news for Chris…

With my words from this morning about interpreting the service, no doubt still ringing in his ears, he did a £10 exacta on the two of them – and was rewarded with a return of £2850.

No prizes for guessing who claimed todays ‘Star pupil’ award !

Things didn’t go quite so well in the other race in which I tipped.

In fairness, there were mitigating circumstances, as a nasty incident with Le Reve saw him cannon into Shotgun Paddy – and completely take out Racing Pulse.

To his credit Shotgun Paddy raced on – and was still in with a chance turning for home.

But he was beaten jumping the last.

I couldn’t have been much further away with the first 3 home – though it was impossible to know that the winner, Viconte de Noyer, would stay the trip…

Stilleto was a non runner  in the big race of the day – but ‘eye catcher’ Taquin du Seuil manfully took on the responsibility of representing TVB hopes…

Liam latched on to him when I put him up in the forum a few weeks back – and backed him at 20/1, ante post.

I’d gone off Taquin a bit today because of the form of Jonjos yard – even tho I had a niggling suspicion he might bounce back.

And that’s how it turned out - with Liam, no doubt, shouting him on from the stand.

He’s going to be shouting on Leonvcavello even louder tomorrow, as he has that one in a double with him (another eye catcher, from the pre-season).

There wasn’t quite do much to get excited about in the days other races…

Defi Du Seuil was a very impressive winner of the opener - a race in which Dino Velvet was a little unfortunate to come down at the last, when in third place.

Thsitlecrack won the novice chase – but not before giving supporters a few scares.

He’s an absolute beast of a horse – and was just too keen to get on with things.

Colin Tizzard will have his work cut out, keeping his exuberance under control.

My 3 fancies in the novice handicap hurdle, didn’t get involved where it mattered – though Memes Horse ran a very eye caching race.

Whilst in the finale, despite coming in for market support, Elope never really threatened to get involved.

Over at Wetherby, Indian Voyage came to win his race – but the ground wasn’t soft enough for him and he could only plug on at the one pace.

It was an opportunity missed – even though there could still be another day for him…

So not everything went as we would have liked – but as Francis said, it’s never going to be a bad day, when you back a 40/1 winner !

Good old Anteros 

TVB.