‘Hope’ springs eternal now AWR takes over!
Liengal Hope represents the nearest thing to a certainty imaginable for division one of a nine-runner Novice Stakes over six furlongs of Newcastle tapeta today; there was a glaringly obvious reason why this thrice-raced gelding by The Last Lion was overturned at odds-on three weeks ago when I actually layed David O’Meara’s charge on Betfair even though my time-handicap had him best-in. ‘You can’t beat the draw’ is my firm maxim and having made use of natural early speed from the widest berth around Wolverhampton, also on tapeta, Liangel Hope found it impossible to ‘do it at both ends’ so to speak and weakened ignominiously into sixth; it looks moderate on paper and my ‘Hope’ is the effort will beContinue Reading