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A decent enough mention for the rag in yesterdays big race.
From “Marten’s Current Racing Diary” on April 30th…
“Of the others I am pleased to see Billesdon Brook left in the race. Richard Hannon’s tough daughter of Champs Elysees can reduce the five and a half lengths deficit with Soliloquy over the longer trip. By contrast I am not convinced that Dan’s Dream, whose dam is by Royal Applause, will improve for the step up to a mile.”
This from his Dark Horses Annual Cav –
“I took quite a liking to Billesdon Brook last season.She is possibly short of Group 1 class but appeals as the sort of filly who could run well at a long price at a decent level”
She certainly did run well at a long price!
Sorry haven’t been on for a while. Jack for Kendergarten Kop it said 8-10f but it was one of those times when you look at the price and feel even if everything might not be quite right for him it was worth a punt. Another example now.
Up to Saturday the book had been showing a slight profit backing all horses each time they ran. My preferred way is stop when they’ve won as they obviously go up the handicap and that was showing a decent return. Saturday however was the big one, the one we dream of. There were three horses in the book running. One was in a hurdle so I ignored it obviously as we are looking at well handicapped 3yo flat horses. There were two others in the same race. One had won it’s previous race at a nice price of 6/1 but had since gone up 6lbs and I decided to have a small saver despite the fact that I don’t normally back them after a win because of it’s price of 12/1 when I backed it. The other intrigued me. The horse was Diocletion. I had backed it in it’s first race when it was favourite at 2/1 which is about the lowest price I would take. It came 3rd running decently. On Saturday it had been entered at Doncaster in a race that was over 1m 6f which was much longer than suggested in the book. Balding had sent three horses up and two were entered in low value races but this won was in a 30k race. I was wondering why he would enter this horse in this particular race. Why send three up but enter this one in 30k race when it was slightly out of the handicap and running a distance in excess of anything it had done before? It’s breeding suggested it may like this distance and I just couldn’t get away from it. It was a nine runner race and was the 50/1 outsider. Everything screamed each way bet. I thought hard and decided at that price I had to have a small one and be happy if it got placed. I didn’t wade in, more just dipped my toe in the water. I’m glad I did. It started at 33/1 and yes it did the business. 50/1 was the biggest winner I’ve had since I backed Ikdam on the tote at 143/1 for the Triumph Hurdle in 1989.
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