2.10 Fontwell Wooly Bully 3pts each-way @ 4/1 (Generally, get guaranteed) - WON @ 9/2
Not a bet that will endear you to your bookmaker but sometimes that's the way to play them. The market is very interesting here, with the French bred Alanjou well backed early into a general 15/8, which looks very short even considering the record of French bred horses in juvenile hurdles in the UK. Baltic Blade and Wooly Bully posted fairly even ratings on their initial starts, but the former now concedes 7lb to our selection having won his first start. Alan King's charge looks a great each-way bet against the top two here. He is by Sixties Icon out of a Karinga Bay mare, which suggests very much that stamina will ultimately prove his forte. It should be noted that he did well, then, to run as promisingly as he did at Stratford on it's sharp track over two miles and 110yds. The selection tackles a much more testing, galloping track at Fontwell this afternoon and recent rain should leave the ground a bit slower too. He also steps up two furlongs in trip, which will be quite a test for these young horses, and seems to be a factor that has been underestimated in the morning markets. He makes plenty of appeal at the prices given his trainer's 27% strike rate at this course with hurdlers over the past five years.
Profit & loss: day: +13.50 / month: +27.50 / year: +272.29
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