Racing tips: Brian Hughes looks a tailor made fit for Ar Mest

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It was nice to bounce back with a decent priced winner after a couple of days where the selections have ran below par. Hiway One O Three won at an advised price of 12/1, but well was backed into 13/2, winning by 15L, which is fair to say it was a blot job. The other selection of Thursday ran well, finishing second, which is a small amount of profit, as it was advised EW.

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Today's racing looks very competitive, and I was close to putting a few others up, but when I delved deeper into the form and the opposition, I sided not to as they were in tricky races. My sole selection of the day isn't great odds, but that's more down to the fact that it's a three runner race. AR MEST was an extremely unlucky loser last time out at this track, and he arguably threw it away as when he hit the front, he idled and didn't do much.

His run last time out over this C&D was his first start for Henry Oliver, who is having a quiet time of things, so it was encouraging to see him run such a good race when you consider the form of the yard isn't up to scratch. As I previously mentioned, he didn't do much when he hit the front, so ideally, he'll have to be delivered late, and who else is better than doing that than Brian Hughes. Brian isn't a usual jockey for Henry Oliver, shown by the fact he has been used a grand total of nine times in the last five years, which has resulted in 2 wins, and a further 5 places, which goes to show he normally picks Brian for when he has a good opportunity. Brian is normally cool as a cucumber, and often frustrates me when he's on a horse and he holds on to them for as long as possible, but for this horse, those tactics look perfect. He was raised 2lbs for that recent run, which is respectable, and it shouldn't cause any problems as he is still extremely well handicapped on older pieces of form when he was trained by Gary Moore, producing a career best RPR of 136 in January 2020.

Slanelough might get an easy lead, which can be dangerous in smaller fields like this, but it would still surprise me if he wins this. The jumping of the other two would have to be extremely poor if he is to win this off top weight. Raffles Gitane is the main threat, but might prefer a faster gallop set, which I can't envisage him getting, as he stayed on well last time out.

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