Horse racing: Chester’s Could assembly day two, newest information and extra – dwell | Horse racing
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Right here’s the closing phases of the opener from the At The Races Twitter/X feed:
Truthful Taxes went off favorite in the long run and Saffie Osborne did her greatest to take advantage of her splendid draw however the course-specialist Roman Dragon was all the time monitoring the tempo going properly and got here with an irresistible run down the center of the monitor to seize the win beneath Oisin Murphy.
Chester 1.30 end result: Roman Dragon fired up for sixth course win
1. ROMAN DRAGON 8-1, 2. Rosenspur 12-1, 3. Balmoral Woman 16-1.
Off and operating within the 1.30 Chester …
Good break by Truthful Taxes, Rosenspur proper there too, approaching midway already …. Rosenspur leads into the straight, Truthful Taxes staying on higher although, right here comes Roman Dragon beneath Oisin Murphy, he’s obtained there with one thing spare, Roman Dragon wins for Hugo Palmer at 8-1.
The runners are happening for the opening dash handicap, the market is struggling to separate Truthful Taxes and Jer Batt at round 7-2.
Present full betting record:
7-2 Truthful Taxes & Jer Batt
13-2 Angel Shared & Roman Dragon
10-1 Copper Knight
12-1 Truthful Wind
14-1 Dream Composer, Balmoral Woman & Rosenspur
25-1 Manila Scouse & Dickieburd
40-1 Balon D’Or
CHESTER 2.05, MAIDEN STAKES, 2YO, 5F 110YD
Maiden races – for horses which have but to win – don’t usually make it onto the ITV Racing schedule, however then, most maiden races usually are not price £20k to the winner and this can be a contest that can have been circled in purple in lots of trainers’ programme books for a while. The unique 13-runner area at declaration time has been lowered to 11 as, shock, shock, the horses drawn in stalls 12 and 13 have each been scratched. Dangerous case of high-numberitis, the cynics would possibly recommend. 4 of the remaining 11 runners are making their seasonal debut at the moment, together with two from Hugo Palmer’s native yard, which has loads of success on the Roodee. A kind of – Tough Tel, the mount of Oisin Murphy – has been strongly backed at the moment, and is presently priced up at even-money, whereas steady companion Dubai Time is the 8-1 second-favourite. That feels fairly vital on condition that neither horse has been seen in public as but, however I plumped for Dubai Time because the decide for the Racing Submit tipping desk yesterday and so really feel obliged to keep it up, albeit that this can be a race the place solely the silly, courageous or very well-informed might be getting concerned.
SELECTION: DUBAI TIME
HUNTINGDON 1.45, MARES’ HANDICAP HURDLE, 2M 3F 137YD
After a visit to Newton Abbot yesterday, Huntingdon will get the nod to strut its stuff for the ITV Racing viewers at the moment, though this appears like a really trappy little handicap hurdle that’s maybe greatest left alone for betting functions. 4 of the runners lined up for a similar Class 2 race – two ranges above this one – at Cheltenham final time, however all have been properly overwhelmed or pulled up bar Ile De Jersey in sixth. Of Course You Can’s greatest type is at Ludlow, which is right-handed and flat, so she ought to be at dwelling round Huntingdon, but when pressed for a decide, it will most likely be the lightly-raced Taxus Baccata, who returns to hurdles in first-time cheekpieces on an affordable mark.
SELECTION: TAXUS BACCATA
Leaping forward briefly to Saturday, the ultimate fields are via for the Derby and Oaks trials at Lingfield this weekend.
There are simply three runners within the Oaks Trial, though it does function the seasonal debut of Aidan O’Brien’s Giselle, a supremely well-bred daughter of Frankel out of Newspaperofrecord, who took the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf in 2018. She was an unfortunate third in a Group Three on her remaining begin at two and is presently a 20-1 shot for the Oaks.
Lingfield’s Derby Trial is longer on numbers, with seven declared runners headed by two colts from the O’Brien yard: Puppet Grasp, who was fourth within the Ballysax Stakes in March, and Keep True, the winner of his solely begin to date, in a maiden at Leopardstown in early April.
CHESTER 1.30, HANDICAP, 5F
A fast sprint across the five-furlong course to open Thursday’s proceedings, and it might not be essential to look a lot additional than stall one for the likeliest winner. Truthful Taxes, a four-year-old skilled in Eire by Ross O’Sullivan, likes to make the operating, has the right pitch by the rail and confirmed that he acts round right here when ending third, off a 1lb decrease mark, on related floor right here final August. He was overwhelmed lower than two lengths that day having had the worst of the attract 12. Jer Batt has returned in high-quality fettle and posted a high-quality effort on the clock at Musselburgh final time, when operating for the primary time in 175 days, however he’s out in stall 9, which is hardly splendid.
SELECTION: FAIR TAXES.
Preamble
Good afternoon from the Roodee in Chester – and welcome again to anybody who was following the motion yesterday – on day two of Chester’s Could competition, forward of the Dee Stakes, the assembly’s second Derby trial, and the Group Three Ormonde Stakes for stayers.
The Dee has blown often scorching however typically chilly as a pointer in the direction of the Derby over the course of its 212-year historical past (although it could be the one recognised Derby trial that has been received by a future Grand Nationwide winner, as Voluptuary, the Dee winner in 1881, ran unplaced at Epsom a number of weeks later and landed the Aintree spectacular three years after that).
However at the moment’s renewal appears stronger than a number of current renewals, not least because the current Wooden Ditton Stakes winner, Excessive Inventory, is among the many runners. The Wooden Ditton, over a mile at Newmarket’s Craven assembly in mid-April, is restricted to unraced three-year-olds and steadily features a future top-notcher that, for no matter cause, merely couldn’t get to a monitor as a juvenile. Excessive Inventory is bred to get no less than a mile-and-a-quarter and at the moment’s race is the right solution to discover out if it is perhaps price supplementing him for the Derby.
The Ormonde, in the meantime, can also be an enchanting contest which pits Illinois, the runner-up in final 12 months’s St Leger, towards the impressively versatile Absurde, a former winner of the County Handicap Hurdle on the Cheltenham competition who has carried out with credit score within the final two runnings of the Melbourne Cup.
The Dee is due off at 2.35 whereas the Ormonde is at 3.05, and the cardboard opens at 1.30 with a five-furlong handicap by which, unusually for a monitor the place the draw is all-important in sprints, has a area of a dozen runners with no withdrawals from the higher-numbered stalls.
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