12 October 2018

Some good racing today at Newmarket.  The main race is the 3:35 bet365 Fillies Mile for two year olds..  It looks a quite open race, anyone of 4 could win it for me.  Hermosa is the probably more favoured than Zagitova of the Ballydoyle fillies, she won her Group 3 last time, although Zagitova is not one to ignore, of the English trained fillies, Antonia De Vega is 2-2 and looks to be progressing, she and both Shambolic are unbeaten in two starts, Pretty Pollyanna would likely be favourite if not putting a below par run last time, she may possibly be better when the sun is shining! It is a race to watch for me, too close to call.

I do like Astronomer 4:10,  as a horse, he looks very useful, but he has a lot of weight today, and conceding 20lb to Baritone will be hard, Rock Eagle is another that gets 14lb from the top weight, it is a difficult race to access the outcome.

I am interested in a couple of horses at York, some really big fields for some of the handicap races, races to avoid for me.  The 3:50 stayers race looks really competitive,  Almoghared could have each way claims, he was below par on his latest run, but looked useful before that tame effort, it is a pretty open handicap.

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