Friday 26 January

Not a great week, so hopefully the tide will turn today. Glasker Mill - who won our featured race yesterday looks a great prospect and it was no surprise to see Henrietta Knight send him straight to Cheltenham for the Royal SunAlliance Chase.

Back to the all-weather today and to Wolverhampton for the 5.00 race. The HorseGraph is fascinating in this race in that I believe Deserter is a very false favourite with three horses rated clearly above him and the trainer of Deserter, Jamie Osbourne, in only average form with 2 winners from his last 21 runners. By contrast Mark Johnston, trainer of Rain And Shade has saddled 4 winners from his last 13 runners.

At the time of writing Deserter is trading at 2.35 on Betdaq and is already on the drift having being matched at odds-on. It's definitely a lay bet for me and I'll take the top-rated Anne Bonney as a win, to improve on her Lingfield debut.

The two newcomers are hard to make any case out for and Stand In Black is a non-runner. It's not normally the sort of race I would get involved in - with little form to go on - but the short odds about Deserter makes for an interesting trading proposition.

Recommended Bets
1 1/2 point win Anne Bonney
LAY Deserter to win 3 points

Comments

[Euro Man]

Dave,

Good call today and managed to trade Anne Bonney and Russ Wiseman's advice Coorbrawn Vic on the place markets on the daq.

Looking forward to Saturday's insight.

Euro Man

[David Stewart]

Thanks Euroman. Nice to have a winning day to go into Saturday with a little more confidence. Deserted really was friendless in the betting which meant I had to risk a little more on the lay on Betdaq than originally intended but it never looked like being a winner.