Sunday 8 January 2012

Racing monday!

One that immediately catched my eye is Vieno Griego in the 2.10 Taunton. This horse has much class actually despite its jumping quality and if getting a clear round is the one to beat.
The company the horse raced the last time against is a different calibre than today.
This horse finsihed close to Quanatitativeeasing, The Minack, Neptunes Collonges,Reve De Sivola, The Giant Bolster there is always the jumping ? mark and today its racing sharp track, but nevertheless, this horse has much class and odds of 6.0+ (was available 10.0 opening)are really ridiculous I thinkn another positive is that its a winter animal at this time around. This horse ran a cracker LTO against The Minack and stumbled badly at the last, the 2m7f will be a bit better and LTO was full of high class chasers.

Edit: Finished 3rd. Vino Griego raced again a promising race, held up very early but taking the lead from 1/4 of the race. It`s def not a horse that races very quietly and equipment seems to be necessary for this one. It had again 2-3 mistakes that cost a bit of energy and could have finished a bit closer to the first two in the end. Had now two races in a row, when it made strong move forward from 3/4 on the race, before the final bend, but today it paid out, that it finished weakly very late again. I think its capable of winning a race at this level, when things fall finally right and his mistakes fall away and the horse gets forward at the right time, but nevertheless, there is def some stamina problems with this horse, even if its hard to admit. Its a good BTL chance now after his two races next time out,as went again very low to 3.0 Inrunning.

Another one at these prices I wanna try is Jump City in the 2.40 Taunton that will benefit a lot from this step down in distance and step down in class. It ran decent enough races against the likes of Fingal Bay, Barbatos and raced well until very late, when sprint qualities were demanded against the best likes of horses. The Hot fav today also impressed me LTO in the finish, but at 3.9 BSP i have to give the well regarded Jump City a try today, as I think at this distance and against this opposition it will have much more left in the tank in the closing stages.

Edit: Finished 2nd beaten 1/2 lenghts, but the winner looked an easy one and Jump City was pulling hard very early already to follow the terrific pacemaker Giordano Bruno, who looked to me like the likely winner, made a strong front running performance and looked well fresh in comparison to the top two of the market, 3/4 out and went under 3.0 Inrunning( great call BOB!). Even the hot fav had problems and pulled a bit following the leader, but out of nowhere the leader stopped running, despite looking optical well fresh and the two market leader came back pulling itself into it. Its an interesting horse this Giordano Bruno for races with shorter breaks now, if this horse is taking the lead like today it can break down some rivals, if not weakening so strong like today and the market leaders had problems to follow this one today. Got squeezed a bit late and didnt get ridden out after to me. I wouldnt be on Jump City next time, because it looked outpaced by todays leaer and got ridden out fully. Has some stamina limitations. Darlan looked very late effortless and this race was today off a strong pace, so I maybe forgive the poor look 1/2-3/4 of the race, but as a high class prospect I wanna see this effortlessness also in this part of the race and no signs of pulling itself back.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

am convinced that Vino Griego will handle the track well today he was very convincing against the Minak as a winner in waiting at Ascot last time - was not a tired jump at the stumble and was almost collected to jump the last well it trounced Neptune Collonge that day and he has come out to run a fine race since am backing Vino for the win today -
Have already put my thoughts up about the 2.40 - good luck today Rade

Unknown said...

agreed your summing up completely on your round up Rade