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1.50 Musselburgh HARRY'S HERO 11/2 WIN ,, gets a good shout out in RP,, Alice Haynes' only one at the course, and it's a fair distance she sends the entire,, good strike-rate she has from the last while from sending hers today's distance, at around 33%,,

HUP !!

wins easy at 6/1 in an eventful race ☺️☺️

2.00 Carlisle

ALBEGREY WIN 7/1 , HOSTELRY 3/1 WIN

GL

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done DRUNK IN LOVE 7s ew as well, plus chanced r/f

1.20 Curragh

Going is 'Good' , but for all I know, it might well be soft already. Am gonna asshume it's gonner be soft/softish; and, with that in mind, me picks:

GULF OF MEXICO 4/1 WIN

AP O'Brien's 2nd string, and a newcomer, but should like the ground if it gets soft - mayn't even need soft to go well. His ~ 5/6 jolly Cairo should go well, but i'd rather be against incase rain cometh, and also cos he's tres short 😃

MALACANNE 25/1 EW . Malacanne seems to have seen some early support. Have a hunch that this one of JP Murtagh's can go well here.

2.25 Goodwod

SAFE VOYAGE 14s EW

Out of form, but can go well on soft. Has a chance if leading here. A long way from one what deserves maximum faith, but will go small stakes anyroad in hope. Not a great price tbf, but fekkit, John Quinn's 9yr old will do me here for an interest.

Also, in same race - which looks to have a lot of early pace/likely leaders in it - will chance putting up a three & four place lay on ORBAAN ~ 4/1, at around 11/10 & 4/5,, thinking is he'll be held up and will have too much ground to make up late on, as I expect he'll be closing fast here; though i think he wants a mile and/or better ground to win - neither of which will be happening today, as race is over 7furlongs on soft ground.

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1.50 Goodwood MOTTISFONT 10s will do me EW here

Buick had an easy time of it there - a ruddy ''married man's gallop'' , as Weaver would say, for first five furlongs 😏

5.30 Bev

ZIHAAM 7/1 WIN

Can't see owt obvious here. The two favs - Dr Rio ~ 2/1 & Your Love Is King ~ 3/1 are in reasonable form lately, but their wins to races ratio is fair poor. I can see Doctor Rio in first four or five (as he goes ok over this ~1m 2f trip on good ground) but he's twenty runs w/o a win, and although he's improved in his last few runs, there's nowt really to say that he's 'due one' , as some of his decent placed efforts at around this trip were in races ran in slow enuf times = not for me.

It's been a year since Your Love Is King gained his sole victory. That was on good to soft at Notts over similar trip and grade. Since moving stables he's had four spins; with the last three being on turf over 10/11fs on good/gd to firm ground, and all in Class 6's. May try make all but can't see him win. Looks like one that might have some joy at Nottingham perhaps, as he rarely runs a bad race there; but, all in all, unless he improves, i aint seeing Luke Morris getting a 2nd victory for this 4yr old today.

Nothing else really appeals here.

Onto Pick:

ZIHAAM is 8 and dropping down the weights. Is a multiple C/D winner and Ben Curtis has won twice on him. Has been slowly away at times in his last few races. In his defence, it will be his first time in a while running in a basement grade Class 6 with a proper jockey atop (ran in a couple of Class 6 Amateur Races recently - both over C/D where he wasn't far away) . Could well come nowhere, so will go win only here on a not so confident pick.

Not a lot of strength in depth here, with a lot of out of form horses in it. Bit Of A Quirke ~ 6/1 is another towards top of market what doesn't appear to have sound claims. Another one, like Your Love Is King, what might try lead here, and ultimately fall short. Whatwouldyouknow ~ 7/1 looks to be one more at home over 9fs - when on a going day - so not too concerned 'bout him neither.

:)

Might give the 3.55 & 4.35 Yarmouth races a look later on, and also interested in Amateur Jockeys' race in t'last at Goodwood,,

a quick look at 3.55 and CUBANISTA ~ 9/4 is jumping off page as far as solid winning claims goes; aint looked at any of the rest of em though 😊

dat's all for now tho' 🤣 🙂

4.35 Yarmouth

Helluvaboy ~ 16s is on the drift,, tempting at the prices,, he won lto at Leicester over the seven when making all,, might not get to do so here today,, might do him yet for pennies.

Special Mayson ~ 8/1 can go well over CD, but would prefer him with a bitta juice in ground.

Justjamie ~ 18s is also on the drift here,, came 2nd lto over 6fs at the course, but perhaps the step up to 7fs aint entirely suitable?

Will go with just two here, altho i could have four or five 😃

PRISCILLA'S WISH WIN 9/4 NAP,, multiple CD winner, is in form, goes on t'ground, and has a highly rated apprentice Harry Davies (3) taking the ride for the first time. I have her at about a 7/4 - 15/8 shot and wouldn't be surprised if she's trading close to evens at some stage, so deserves Nap vote..

SHALFA 13/2 EW ,, 2nd over C/D two runs back, and a winner over 7 at Brighton lto - solid claims..

might stick Helluvaboy & Justjamie in along with the two picks for combi f/c + t/c purposes 😊