4.30 Hamilton Amenable 4pts win @ 6/1 (Totesport, Boylesports, Seaniemac.com, VC Bet, William Hill, guaranteed).
Represents a stable who have a knack for getting sprinters with this kind of profile in good shape, and getting them winning. Amenable chased too strong a pace at Brighton last time out and paid for it at the business end of the race, and he is worth more than a precursory reading of the form reveals. The booking of Robert Winston is really eye catching here, he has only two rides at the track this afternoon, the other being on an unfancied maiden. Amenable should get a good tow into this from Chocamoca in the stall next door, and if Winston can simply sit in behind that horse and produce Amenable late I think he has the winning of the race. First time cheekpieces are applied, and the stable have made a habit of getting horses such as Fairy Wing and Al Khan winning in the same headgear. 6/1+ is too big.
4.50 Brighton Johnny Splash 4pts win @ 4/1 (Generally, get guaranteed).
Also ran in the aforementioned Brighton race in which Amenable chased a strong pace. He was another who chased the pace and ultimately weakened, and it is encouraging for both selections that he came out and ran second to The Strig over today's course and distance next time out. I remember tipping this horse second time out as a juvenile, after having showed blinding speed on his debut. Connections were unable to harness it, and he looked a lost cause and a bit difficult at one point. However, it turns out he is developing into a sound horse (runs quite often) who takes racing well and is learning his oats as a sprinter, picking up a race or two along the way. His second behind The Strig was a career best in my view, that horse is a good Brighton yardstick and is better than anything in this field on his day. As such Johnny Splash makes plenty of appeal against the favourite here, and the booking of a jockey with a 6/23 26% strike rate at this track on older horses can be regarded as a real positive.
Profit & loss: day: -8.00 / month: -29.86 / year: +88.35
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