Coming away with two winners on Saturday is a great result, and I'm delighted to continue the good form in what has been a very enjoyable month for the thread.
Pic D'Orhy put in an incredible front-running performance under jockey Harry Cobden and barely put a foot wrong from start to finish.
My main selection of the day was My Drogo, who I thought ran very well at Haydock and proved that form is temporary in this game but class is permanent.
Unfortunately, I could not land the hat trick on Saturday with Brentford Hope blowing out quite quickly when push came to shove but the money landed for the eventual winner throughout the day, with Burdett Road drifting from odds on to a shade of 2/1 before the off.
Cairnzy's Tips
Card Shark 6/1 – Lingfield 16:52
Miscommunication between myself and Rizz has resulted in Sunday's thread going live quite late and I apologize for that in advance. I am covering Sunday's racing and Rizz will be back tomorrow night with tips for Monday's card. Hopefully, I can carry through the good form from Saturday to Sunday but at first glance, the quality on offer is quite poor.
I'll be honest. Very little caught my eye on Sunday, and if given the option, I'd have a no-bet day, but we have to put up something. After glancing through the cards, two horses caught my eye at particularly nice prices. Gavin Cromwell's Velvet Elvis initially tempted me at the meeting at Punchestown, and I'm sure long-term contributor to the thread Elvis will be on that one, but given the competitiveness of the race, I opted to give it a miss. That left me with Card Shark, a horse running on the flat at Lingfield in a lowly Class 5 affair… probably a silly move given these races throw up wacky results but I thought the price of 6/1 was more than generous at the time of writing.
The lightly raced Card Shark showed very little on his first three starts for new trainer Jim Boyle but returned to Kempton on seasonal reappearance last month with an encouraging run to finish just over 1L down in third place behind Mick Appleby's Stella Hogan. I think the form of that contest reads quite well given the uncertainty backing horses at this sort of the level. The eventual winner Stella Hogan has remained competitive since that run, filling the runner-up spot on his following two outings. Furthermore, the second placed horse Cherry King had been a consistent sort prior, finishing second four times on the bounce before going one better on his most recent outing at Chelmsford.
