A fantastic day at Musselburgh on Sunday with 2 nice winners RUMBLE OF THUNDER 7/1 and ERICHT 5/2 and two placed horses in CROWNING JEWEL 3RD at 10/1 and LOCAL HERO 2nd at 8/1 ,so a good day and all well paid for with these .
Been a quiet week so far but onto Doncaster and a decent card with a few nice types.
The 15.00 is a good 3 mile chase and a few come into the reckoning Richard Lee’s good staying chaser KNOCK A HAND NR won a nice race at Carlisle back in December on Heavy ground and looked a right prospect winning by 12 lengths,his trainer obviously thinks a lot of him as he proceeded to enter him in the Welsh National where he pulled up on the Heavy ground and the distance was just too much of a slog on that occasion,he then took in a Grade 2 event at Haydock and finished 3rd of 4 beaten a log way by two good class horses,he has now dropped back to his winning mark and has eased in grade both of which should enable him to be in the shake up.HARRY THE VIKING has won here twice before finishing 2nd in the 4mile nh chase at the festival in 2012,he has been a bit out of sorts since then but was made favourite on his reappearance here in December and has dropped to very attractive mark ,blinkers on for the first time might help and he should strip a lot fitter this time.The Walford trained FENTARA has some good form to her name and ran a cracker last time out at Newcastle when 2nd splitting two very decent horses,is prone to jumping errors so it would be taking on trust that the jumping holds. The Sue Smith yard continues in good form and FILL THE POWER had some really good runs last term and a thorough stayer who likes to bowl along in front and seems to enjoy that ,had a run in January which was his first for 9 months and will have helped with the fitness.STORM SURVIVOR comes into the race on the back of two poor runs had been in good from prior to that but would not want it too soft.
The 15.35 sees recent winner TOP BILLING return to the scene of that triumph and he certainly won with any amount in hand , has been raised a whopping 16 pounds for that to a career high mark but one still to be considered although may not be best value.The Henderson yard send ONE CONEMARA who Dead-Heated in a bumper ,then won a ludlow maiden hurdle last term ,has not really gone on from that ,was running a decent race on this years debut when falling 3 out and a few winners have since emerged from that race ,the step up to 3 mile should be to his advantage and Geraghty in the saddle is positive.Nicky Richards horse STREAMS OF WHISKEY has been chasing and won at Hexham in October then in both preceding races he held every chance when falling at the last at Ayr and then the 2nd last at Newcastle,back over hurdles he is on a good mark and has to be treated with respect in this.
DONCASTER 15.00 STORM SURVIVOR 7/1 (3PTS E/W) HARRY THE VIKING 6/1 (3 PTS WIN)
DONCASTER 15.35 ONE CONEMARA 7/2 (4PTS WIN) STREAMS OF WHISKEY 6/1 (3PTS WIN)
STORM SURVIVOR 7/1 + ONE CONEMARA 7/2 (1PT DBLE)
STORM SURVIVOR 7/1 + STREAMS OF WHISKEY 6/1 (1 PT DBLE)
HARRY THE VIKING 6/1 + ONE CONEMARA 7/2 (1 PT DBLE)
HARRY THE VIKING 6/1 + STREAMS OF WHISKEY 6/1 (1 PT DBLE)
20 POINTS STAKED
20 POINT LOSS
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