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Wondered if anyone had a view on the performance of this horse this afternoon. It was supported early (backed into 3/1 at one stage) but drifted markedly close to the off on the exchanges (sp was 5/1).
For information purposes it was ridden by Simon Whitworth.
Class 5 handicaps are not normally my thing, David; but I did see this race.
I didn’t study the race yesterday so I’m not familiar with the running styles of the horses involved. The horse certainly didn’t seem to settle, but other than that, I didn’t see anything ‘unusual’ about the race.
As for betting patterns, I noticed the betfair SP was a point bigger than Industry SP, which is not unusual.
What was your view?
I find the simple expedient of never backing Sh*tworth works wonders. You miss out on one winner a month at most and save yourself having to start threads like this every other day.
The stats on SW’s mounts when the SP is longer than the FP are incredible. 75% loss over the last 3 years although I realise that wasnt the case yesterday. That horse clearly has ability, looks like their lining it up.
I Backed the animal Each Way and whilst being held up came round the outside travelling strongly. He got within about half a length of the leaders of four looking likely to go on, but could not sustain his effort. He looked genuine enough and beaten about 2.5 lenghts, I believed he tried, but my honest opinion is that the connections think he has more ability than he possibly has. Possibly will win a similar race as this was his first outing on grass but in my opinion will not go on from there.
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