Good evening.
Two to catch the eye for tomorrow and the first looks a huge price in the shape of R Woody in the dash at York at 25/1 with the sponsors.
R Woody is 2/3 over the trip on g/s and soft and was a fair 7th on his last run of the year at listed level. When on song he looked very good in his wins last year and improved rapidly since joining his new stable.
He infamously won his maiden at Southwell at 100/1 where connections forgot to mention he had been gelded since his last run !
What I found in his races last year was that he had a pattern of running one really good race followed by a poor run and then bouncing back and running another really good race. That pattern produced form figures of 1211. He looks to be doing the same again this year with a opening 0 followed by a solid 3rd at Windsor at this level followed by a 9th most recently although that wasn't to bad. Following the pattern he should run a big race tomorrow. Intrestingly he is entered in the Stewards Cup next week where he is 2/2 at the C/D and a penaly here would help him get in the field. He looks well capable of winning a class 2 race , has won in a 17 runner field and has plenty of scope for more improvement. Hayley Turner takes the ride and feel this has a really strong chance at a huge e/w price.
Over at Ascot Cathy Gannon rides The Confessor in the International, who has form figures of 1153 at the trip, ran a fair 7/28 over 6f last time and is open to plenty of improvement with just 9 starts. The ground will not be a problem and The Confessor has A/W form which is always a + here.He ran really well on his reappearance at Sandown and looks like he can improve on that.
R WOODY 1 POINT E/W AT 25/1 SKYBET
THE CONFESSOR 1 POINT E/W AT 12/1 (BOG FIRST 5)