Applaud Now because ‘time’ dictates Clive Cox’s charge has a gilt-edged opportunity of making it third time lucky in the Novices’ Stakes over seven furlongs of Lingfield polytrack today. This rates a proper bet with all signals in place and boxes ticked with median requirements. I’ve often mentioned the reluctanceContinue Reading

Judicial Law, 3/1, gave me immense satisfaction when beating odds-on Gamaret at Catterick on New Years’ Day and realistically that’s what this column is all about, chancing against ‘shorties’ with a view to profiting with little risk attached. On the time-handicap Judicial Lady was the only possible serious rival toContinue Reading

Domandlouis will not come as a surprise if able to ‘ruffle feathers’ of much-better fancied rivaLs in an eight-runner Novices’ Hurdle over two and a half miles around Ayr today when the number one Scottish circuit will probably be demanding; in the United Kingdom there is ‘soft’ and there isContinue Reading

Whiteandblue and Coast look set to dominate a ten-runner Median Auction Maiden Stakes over five furlongs of Southwell tapeta today when their owners/trainers will definitely be viewing a ‘last chance saloon’ for these vexing three-year-old fillies which raced and failed twelve times last year as two-year-olds. Yes all juveniles areContinue Reading