Can’t pass Go to collect £10K
‘Do I back the favourite or oppose it?’
A thought that passes through every punter’s brain, every day, if not at every betting opportunity.
When it comes to tonight’s Coral Golden Sprint Final, it is hard to make a case to oppose the odds-on chance Druids Say Go.
It isn’t just that the Janssens trained runner has a Romford record of 10 wins and 2 seconds from 12 races over course and distance. Or that she was quickest in the first round and semi finals.
There would be a case to suggest that this looks the least ‘challenging’ of the three runs to date. As we pointed out in last Saturday’s review, only two of the 13 railers who went to the semi finals made it through to the final.
There are only two railers in the final and the blue jacketed runner probably has more ‘EP’ than her inside neighbour, providing she traps somewhere near her best. Her two defeats came off 3.72/3.79 sectionals. Last week’s break appeared better than the sectional with a trap-to-line win.
In a match race against the favourite, Aero Convey would not be without supporters and a repeat of his 23.58 run would certainly make a race of it. But like last week’s rival Seomra Paws, he is a genuine middle-to-wide runner in a race where there are three of them. How the changes in trap allocation since last week’s semi final play out is anyone’s guess.
Although Kila Detail is rated a 10/1 chance, knock the four lengths off last week’s semi run, following first bend trouble, and show some of his Hove early and he would have to be a player. Unlike the favourite though, the Richard Rees trained runner does not a natural ‘Romford type’ and would probably apprciated another 70-80 metres.
Front Alice is quicker than her Romford form suggests though this is probably the toughest race of her career.
Betting: 4/6 Druids Say Go, 9/2 Aero Convey, 8/1 Supa Nova, 10/1 Front Alice, Kila Detail, 12/1 Seomra Paws
PETA representative a laughing stock in GB News interview
Yesterday GB News ran an interview looking at the welfare angle for Cheltenham.
Among the guests was ‘Ruben’, a representative for the extreme welfare organisation People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). It didn’t go well. Judge for yourself. The parallels with greyhound racing are obvious.
Here is a Youtube snippet of the interview. Twitter followers can see the full version.
Opens
Saturday: Central Park ♦ Doncaster ♦ Monmore ♦ Oxford
