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Anyone back Alfie Sherrin for form reasons? (As opposed to ‘oi oi it’s the big gamble’)
YES – and I explained some of my reasoning in the JLT thread in the early hours of the morning.
Alfie Sherrin is best on good ground – as proven by Paul Nicholls campaigning him through the summer and winning a quick-ground Newbury handicap hurdle with him.
Since purchased for a massive sum by JP McManus, he has on first glance been a bit disappointing. He won a novices’ chase and has since been beaten in a few handicap chases – including the Irish National, which was too far. There have been various excuses for his defeats – obviously the ground being one, returning from absences and jumping errors.
Through all that, he was back down to the same sort of mark from which he won that Newbury handicap hurdle in impressive fashion. He had his ground today and was an artificially high price since Tony McCoy ‘chose’ Quantitativeeasing. McCoy could not do 10 stone and would have presumably ridden Alfie Sherrin if he could have.
Furthermore, Alfie Sherrin was a good fifth in a competitive handicap hurdle on his most recent start – despite in being on heavy ground – which he would have hated.
So well handicapped, on his best ground, inflated price before Pricewise mentioned him…what was not to like?
You did well!
I didn’t spot any of that. Good call.
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