The Moscow Flyer meeting at Punchestown didn’t go as I hoped. Enjoy d’Allen did what he usually does and that’s the last time I’ll be tipping him (I swear!). Artic Lane was outclassed and unfortunately, Chosen Diamond needed the run badly. We have three days of quality action to get stuck into this weekend, I’ll be previewing the Berkshire Million meeting on my own blog and Saturday’s action will be covered on the TXMarkets blog. My 2025 Windsor & Market Rasen Friday tips are below.
2.35 Market Rasen – Veterans’ Handicap Chase Final (Class 2)
This race has fallen foul of the weather a couple of times already.
I put Smarty Wild up when it was scheduled to be run at Sandown earlier this
month and my main angle for fancying him was his liking for right-handed
tracks. Pulled up on his return from a year off at Haydock in December, his form
figures going left handed read 455P, going the other way they read 3313332F232.
He gets in here off a mark of 127. He is actually rated 125 but even though he is 2lb wrong at the weights, he was placed on his last three starts of 2022/2023 off 133 so I am not too worried about him being out of the handicap. I am hoping he needed his comeback run and that he'll improve plenty for it.
Philip Hobbs and Johnson White have had five winners from their last
nine runners, hopefully Smarty Wild gives them another winner on Friday at odds of
10/1.
2025 Windsor & Market Rasen Friday Tip: Smarty Wild
e/w @ 10/1
3.35 Windsor – Sovereign Handicap Hurdle (Class 2)
There’s a big pot up for grabs here. The total purse is £110k
with £57k going to the winner. We have backed Cracking Rhapsody a couple of
times, including at a lovely price when he won the Morebattle at Kelso last season.
We also backed him at Cheltenham on his penultimate outing, where he ran poorly,
but he bounced straight back from that effort on his next start at Kelso, where
he hosed up in a mickey mouse class 3 handicap off 127.
That win came on soft, it was also soft when he was beaten a length in the Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr last year and overall, his form figures in soft ground handicaps read 2131. His Morebattle win came on good to soft so he won't mind once there is a bit of juice in the ground.
The ground was good when he flopped
at Cheltenham so I am willing to forgive him that run and I think he might
still have a bit more wriggle room off his revised mark of 133. 20/1 about Cracking
Rhapsody looks a shade too big to my eyes and at those odds, he has to be worth
chancing each way.
2025 Windsor & Market Rasen Friday Tip: Cracking
Rhapsody e/w @ 20/1 (4 places)
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