Today's Selections

Not much time for detailed write up's today so will just be posting my selections together with the advised bets.

Starting Bank = 527.33


Singles

1:25 Market - MARCHAND D'ARGENT (5/2) - 8pt win - Horse and trainer in good form, despite the penalty he is still well handicapped on his old form and Johnston rides the course better than anyone.

1:55 Market - SAVANT BLEU (9/2) - 4pt win - Horse won well last time out despite not looking to enjoy the soft ground. He has received a 5lb rise for that effort but Alan Bailey usually gets plenty of improvement out of these kind of horses and the booking of Maguire could be the making of this horse. Biggest danger ENROLLER and  it maybe worth having a small RF with that runner.

2:25 Chester - KINGS DESIRE (11/4) - 6pt win - This is a horse which I really like and he has shown a great degree of promise on his first 2 runs. If Bonfire had still be in the line up I probably would have left the race alone but following his withdrawal I strongly believe that this one has a great chance.

5:40 Cork - CROISULTAN (4/6) - 20 pt win - I received a strong message for this horse in its last race and it  ran a great race to finish second in a hotbed G3 at 10/1. Today's race looks a million times easier than that and with Smullen once again taking the ride and with conditions to suit this horse has banker material written all over it and is very well fancied.

6:05 Hamilton - DA' QUONDE (3/1) - 4pt win - I don't usually like backing horses in apprentice races but this one looks to have solid claims. The horse is lightly raced and her past form looks to be working out nicely,she is proven over the distance, will like the ground and should be difficult to beat.



2pt multiple
2:25 Chester - KINGS DESIRE (11/4)
3:05 Chester - BALLESTEROS (15/8)

So that concludes today's selections but I'm waiting on confirmation of two info horses are Lingfield so I will post them up as soon as I hear anything. Elsewhere my Irish contact has heard that ECHOS OF HISTORY (5/1) is expected to run a big race on his comeback appearance in the 7:15 at Cork but I will see how it fairs in the market in the next few hours before backing it.