It was a very busy weekend with mixed fortunes for the horses featured in my Friday evening preview.
On Saturday Flores Sea and Hearthstead Maison were winners for our list to follow while We’ll Come, Eastern Anthem and Finalmente were others to run with plenty of promise.
I am not sure if Mark K is reading these notes but if so, well done to your brother for his write up on Cockney Rebel.
Sunday went well for our list horses. Superseus, Sixties Icon, Finsceal Beo and Tax Free taking the first 4 races at Newmarket. Sixties Icon quickened most impressively and looks set for a successful year. The filly Finsceal Beo won with some ease and will be hard to beat against her own age and sex as the season unfolds. I thought that Arch Swing ran a super race in second in the filly’s classic especially as she was rather marooned in the centre of the track.
It was a good weekend for north of the border trainer Len Lungo who had a win double with Kadount over hurdles and Monolith on the flat.
There are 4 meetings on Bank Holiday Monday and I will start at Kempton where Lucarno looks the one to beat in the 3.30. He was unfancied at 50/1 when runner up at Newbury but showed plenty of ability that day and can go one better here.
In the 4.00 I will be keeping an eye on Garden Party who is a half brother to Border Castle a winner on the flat and over hurdles.
Acheekyone could be the answer to the handicap at 4.30. He was hampered when 6th in the Newbury Spring Cup and the form of that race has worked out well. The winner, Pinpoint, was only just touched off by Superseus at HQ yesterday, while the 8th home, My Paris, was a winner on Saturday.
Up at Newcastle there are 2 representatives from our list to follow in the 4.35. Feeling Wonderful was a winner in soft ground at Catterick last season so some rain would probably help his cause. Tomorrow’s Dancer did not get a clear run at Wolverhampton on his last outing and is better than the bare form figures suggest.
Captain Jacksparra has not been out of the first 2 in his last 4 runs. I am hoping that he will give our list to follow a winner in the 3.10 at Warwick.
Mofarij is a half brother to the recently ertired Iffraaj, a winner of 3 Group 2s. If Mofarij is that good then the 4.20 at Windsor should be within his compass.
See you tomorrow
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