Racing Insights, Wednesday 01/03/23
Wednesday's free Geegeez GOLD feature, the Trainer Statistics (TS) report is, in fact, four reports in one. It contains information on a trainer’s recent form, and their longer term course form. For each of 14 day, 30 day, course one year, and course five year, users can filter by runs, wins, places, win profit/loss and each way profit/loss. Clicking on any row in the report will reveal the runners that trainer has entered on the day in question, and clicking on the runner row will open that race in a new tab.
HINT: It can help to cross refer the profit figures of the trainer with their win/place percentage. A few big priced winners can mean a trainer has a high profit number but a low strike rate. You may need to be very patient, and a bit lucky, to come out in front this way!
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In addition to the free daily feature, we always open up a number of racecards to non-Gold subscribers and for Wednesday, they are...
- 2.00 Lingfield
- 3.35 Lingfield
- 3.55 Musselburgh
- 6.00 Kempton
My own personal settings for the TS report...
...have highlighted a handful of trainers in good 30-day form but just one other runner elsewhere...
As you can see, the Geegeez-sponsored yard of Anthony Honeyball is absolutely flying right now and he sends three runners to Wincanton, but the racing on Wednesday as whole is pretty poor and I'd be wary of putting too much cash at risk anywhere.
But for this column, the show must go on, so I've just selected a competitive-looking A/W sprint with a few relatively in-form runners competing to land the near-£8,000 prize for the 2.30 Lingfield, an 8-runner, Class 5, 3yo A/W handicap over a left handed 6f on standard polytrack...
Expert Agent, Two Desserts, Daytona Lady and Rossmore nation all won last time out, whilst Girlswannahavefun and Talamanca both won two starts ago. the latter also won five starts ago, but Beautiful Sunshine and Muy Muy Guapo are both 4-race maidens, but BS has been a runner-up in three of his four starts. Bottom weight Rossmore Nation is the only class mover, stepping up one grade.
Two Desserts makes a handicap debut and Muy Muy Guapo has a second bite of the cherry. Half of these (Expert Agent, Daytona Lady, Talamanca and Rossmore Nation) have already won over 6f, but none of the field have won here at Lingfield. Mind you, only three have been here and two have made the frame.
Talamanca runs for the first time since mid-October and Expert Agent has had an eight-week break, but the other half dozen have all been seen in the last 40 days with Rossmore Nation's win last Tuesday the most recent of all runs. In addition to our four (3 on A/W) 6f winners, we have four winners on standard going and four Class 5 A/W winners and a couple of runners quite heavily penalised for their LTO wins...
Talamanca looks the most unsuccessful exposed horse there and with a 0 from 6 record on the A/W, you've got to think that this is a pipe-opener after a long break so he can be ready for the Flat season with him being 3 from 3 over 6f on turf. One of the two fillies, Daytona lady looks best on those numbers and I'm not too keen on the three with lines of red. of the five with green, Expert Agent and Rossmore Nation will find this tougher than their LTO wins now that they're up 8lbs and 6lbs respectively and with Rossmore Nation also up in class, he'll need to be on his A-game.
He's drawn in stall 8, which in fairness, doesn't have a great record in such contests...
...but considering it's a short race with a bend, there's not as much of a bias as you might expect and stalls 4 & 5 where you might think would be a good starting point, haven't been great either. If you could cherry pick, you'd want box 2 where Two Desserts will come from. he's also likely to want to get out sharpish, if recent efforts are to be relied upon...
...and those races above have lended themselves to early pace...
...which makes this pace/draw heatmap unsurprisingly lop-sided...
...and with our field's average pace scores overlaid...
...you'd probably want to be on Two Desserts and/or Talamanca.
Summary
Looking back to pace/draw with are so important in these non-straight sprints, it was Two Desserts and Talamanca ho caught the eye, but the latter is coming back from a 133-day absence, hasn't run on the A/W for over six months and his record in this sphere reads no win, two places from six efforts. Two Desserts, on the other hand, is in good form and won last time out. He's unexposed, isn't too harshly treated on handicap debut and should go really well at a big-looking 15/2 with Bet365, ideal for an E/W bet if nothing else.
Elsewhere, I'd expect the likes Expert Agent (who won easily LTO) and Rossmore Nation to be heavily involved. Both are likely to go off sub-5/1 and if running like he did last time, Expert Agent could well be the one to beat, even from an indifferent pace/draw perspective.