This tip has expired. Please check our free horse racing tips section of the website to find the most up to date.
Rizz has kindly asked me to cover Wednesday's racing, but he will return tomorrow evening with Thursday's card.
I didn't catch any racing today, so I am unable to comment on how Rizzel's selections performed. I checked the results, and his main selection in Spike Jones went down by a nose to the eventual winner, Ikarak. Without even watching a replay, I'm assuming the power-packed Bowen drive was probably the main factor in his selection losing out.
I've gone to the meeting at Bangor for my sole selection on Wednesday, and the card itself is quite good!
Doctor Ken 11/2 – Bangor 2.00
I already mentioned in my intro that the card at Bangor offers punters some decent quality racing to get involved with. I was initially tempted to get involved in the Class 1 at 1.30 but opted to take a chance on Olly Murphy's Doctor Ken in the 2.00, who I think offers punters some value at 11/2 in what looks like a wide open contest.
There are question marks on most of their heads in terms of race fitness, given the long layoffs, but I thought Doctor Ken was possibly an exception to that statement, given that he has gone well fresh in the past. My selection won at Aintree last November on the back of an eight-month absence, and I'm hoping the inform Olly Murphy has my selection ready to roll once more.
On paper, this is a decent-looking Class 2 contest with plenty of familiar faces on show, such as Richmond Lake, The Doyen Chief, and Le Milos. Richmond Lake in particular caught my eye as he looks on a decent mark and a recent wind op could spark him back to form if ready to roll after a layoff. Still, I couldn't help but get involved with Doctor Ken, who is still unexposed over 3m and makes his seasonal return off a workable mark of 134, having already won off a mark of 133 at Kempton two starts back. The form of the Olly Murphy is there for all to see, operating at a 24% S/R in the last fourteen days, producing 9 winners from 38 runners, with plenty of others hitting the crossbar or running well in defeat. Sean Bowen takes the ride as expected, and as usual, he can be the difference when it comes to getting a horse across the line with its head in front.
GambleAware