Stat of the Day, 17th September 2013
Stat of the Day, 17th September 2013
Dr Irv didn’t run badly at all yesterday, but when push came to shove in the final furlong, he didn’t have the same turn of foot as the two leaders and had to settle for a third place finish at 4/1, half a point shorter than our advised bet.
Hurdles action for SotD today as we tackle the…
Alan King has a decent enough recent record here at Stratford with four winners from seventeen runners over the last couple of years and the results have yielded a level stakes profit of just over 10pts at Betfair SP: a return of 59% over stakes invested. And his last six runners here have finished 112412.
Alan has just the one runner on show on Tuesday, the in-form Letsby Avenue who comes here seeking a hat-trick of wins after two second place finishes earlier in the year. All told, this horse has won three times from seven and has finished second twice and fourth twice.
Good ground is forecast here and Letsby Avenue‘s record in these conditions is 1211 and he has also finished second on his last effort on good to soft, in case the rains come again!
He looks to be progressing nicely from a 23 length demolition job at Uttoxeter on his penultimate outing, which he followed up by a very solid performance to win at Market Rasen last time out, whilst stepping up in both trip and class.
He steps up to Class 3 today and tackles 2m 6.5f for the first time, but he has run well over 2m 6f in the past and the way he finished both of his last two races, he looked like he’d plenty left in the tank. He’ll come here refreshed from a break of just over six weeks and runs off the same 129 mark as last time out and although this is his toughest task to date, I think he still has some progression left in him.
The likes of the wily old Benbane Head are likely to both have a say and also lengthen the odds of our selection, but I think that a 1pt win bet on Letsby Avenue at 7/2 BOG with Bet365 should be the trick to get us back on the winning path.
I wrote this on Monday evening, as there was no evening racing to “entertain” me. This meant that only bet365 and BetVictor had a market for this race, so I strongly suggest that you…
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