Monday’s free feature of the day is full access to the pace tab for all races. This is available to all free registered users of Geegeez and gives huge insight into which runners might be most or least disadvantaged by their early positions in each race.
The free races of the day on Monday are...
- 4.35 Southwell
- 4.50 Galway
- 7.40 Windsor
- 8.30 Wolverhampton
All three UK races are the same standard, so with it being a Monday night, let's have a quick look at the 7.40 Windsor, an 8-runner, Class 5, 3yo+ fillies' flat handicap over slightly further than a mile around the figure of eight on good to firm ground...
Atlantis Blue and More Than A Feeling both got off the mark last time out, albeit after 14 and 4 defeats respectively. Delicacy was third after a pair of runner-up finishes, but remains a maiden after eight starts, whilst Resonance is a seven-race maiden. Mirroring is 1 from 8, having won four starts ago at Epsom, back in August 2023 and Mizuumi is 1 from 4 despite winning on debut back in December. She has been last home of four in two of her three starts since. Cherry Hill has won just one of ten, which was at Kempton in September of last year. She has been beaten four times since, including being last home of ten on two occasions.
Mirroring will wear a hood for the first time today, whilst the fast-finisher More Than A Feelin steps up in class, as does Cherry Hill. At the ages of 4 and 5, the top three on the card (Atlantis Blue, Resonance & Soi Dao) are effectively 8lbs out of the handicap here, as they don't get the weight allowance that the five others get as three year olds. Resonance last raced just over eight weeks ago and the others have all had a run in the last 33 days. Despite the field only having won 8 of 93 combined starts (Soi Dao is 3 from 36 out of that!), Atlantis Blue, Soi Dao and Mizuumi have all still managed a win over today's trip. Only four of the field have raced at Windsor before (once each) with two placed efforts being the best results to date, meaning that we're probably going to get more from the place element of Instant Expert than we are from the win stats...
All of which is pretty uninspiring if truth be told, isn't it? That said, Atlantis Blue, Delicacy and Cherry Hill are probably the take-aways from this. These three will run from stalls 2, 5 and 6 and whilst there's no huge draw bias here, the lower drawn runners might just have a slight edge...
...but it is slight, for sure. Race positioning, however, is a different matter. We call this PACE and it's Monday's free feature and Windsor certainly suits those brave enough to set the tempo and if we look at how those races above have panned out, you'd probably agree with me that pace is more important than draw today...
...and this belief is backed up by the pace/draw heat map...
If we then look at the pace scores from the field's last few races...
...you'd have to say that Atlantis Blue and Delicacy would be best positioned.
Summary
From Instant Expert, Atlantis Blue, Delicacy and Cherry Hill had the edge and it's Atlantis Blue and Delicacy who look best positioned on pace, so that's the pair I'm siding with here. I've no prices (as of Sunday 4.15pm) to guide me, so I'll suggest that Delicacy would be the one I'd go with marginally. She seems in more consistent form despite winning and the booking of Tom Marquand is a bonus here.
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