Hove selections from Joe
*** 7.16 Hove – Cooliogold
** 8.24 Hove – Droopys Pivotel
*7.33 Hove – Noirs News
*9.36 Swindon – Hopiehopiehopie
A full open race card at Hove this evening. There are two Category Three finals starting off what is a brilliant few days of racing.
The Coral 695 Maiden Stayers Trophy Final at 8.07 sees Faypoint Jet have plenty in hand on the clock heading into the race. He was an impressive winner of his heat last week stopping the clock 41.61 calculated. The other heat was won in 43.02 by Ballymac Lolls albeit she found plenty of trouble spots on her way to victory.
If Faypoint Jet comes away in a similar fashion to last week he will take all the beating. That said, he will be a short price to do so.
Tonight’s Next Best
The Coral Dual Distance Trophy Final over 515m at 8.24 is a really classy affair.
Recent Sussex Cup finalist Uncle Freddie lines up from trap one against Greyhound Derby Semi Finalist Droopys Pivotel from trap four. 2023 Sussex Cup champion Candolim Monsoon has got a far-from-ideal draw in trap five while recent Coronation Cup Finalist Joes Sagar is in trap six.
Droopys Pivotel was beaten at 2/11 last week over 500m by Joes Sagar. I think this week being drawn inside Candolim Monsoon can see him lead at the first bend and go on to win. He never really shrugged off Joes Sagar last week so if coming away better this evening he can be in front earlier and from there can hold on.
Other races on the card see Greyhound Derby Semi Finalist Coss Tokyo trying to shake off his maiden tag by winning the 515m maiden at 9.16.
Two heats of the Coral 285 Maiden Sprint can see trap one Where Are You for Seamus Cahill take heat one at 6.42. Kilkenny Millie can win heat two from trap two at 6.59.
Wednesday Nap
Cooliogold should get back to winning ways from trap one in heat one of the Coral 500 Standard Trophy at 7.16. Summer Stayers Classic semi-finalist Noirs News can take heat two at 7.33 from trap six. Trap two Asbo Lenny can win heat three at 7.49.
There are several opens at Swindon taking place where Hopiehopiehopie looks the best bet on the card. She can make amends for last week’s defeat by winning the Blunsdon Stayers at 9.36 from a better draw in trap one.
Select Stakes Prices
After the draw was made yesterday at Nottingham, the prices for the 2024 Jenningsbet Select Stakes are out.
A tight-knit contest in prospect with the break all important with a field made up of only railers. Anyone with a strong opinion on the contest will appreciate 3/1 the field for the £12,500 contest next Monday.
The best odds are below.
3/1 Romeo Command 10/3 Barntick Bear 4/1 Untold Dollar 9/2 Links Maverick 5/1 Unanimous Panther 12/1 Newinn Syd
Yarmouth Wednesday Trials
With the start of the East Anglian Derby only two weeks away, Yarmouth had some excellent triallers on Wednesday.
The pick of the session was Belinda Green’s Gary The Arb. The winner of the Greyhound Trader Stakes on Derby night at Towcester, he missed out on a spot in the Ladbrokes Summer Stayers Final by 3/4 of a length last weekend.
Nowhere To Go went well for Sally Johnson. She was a 28.66 Dundalk winner in May when trained by Francis Murray. Her dam is the speedy Sams Elle who was 3rd in the sprint final on East Anglian Derby night in 2020, a race won by Shrewd Call.
The only other runner to stop the clock sub 27.75 was Beaming Panther. Another for Green, he was a semi-finalist in both the Sussex Cup and Ladbrokes Gold Cup recently. He has only had five starts in the UK on top of five in Ireland where he clocked 28.54 at Clonmel and 28.76 at Tralee.
Upcoming Perry Barr Category Ones
Racing Manager Martin Seal has advised trainers of the following.
Hove Trials tonight
The Liz McNair kennel send a trial team for a spin around 285m this evening.
Queen Joni is back in action for the first time since winning the Plate on Derby Final night. The winner of 24 of her 31 career starts. including three Category One finals. Her return is much looked forward to.
Derby finalist King Memphis is also in action along with King Sydney and Queen Shakira. The string of sprint runners adds plenty of intrigue to what is already an excellent night of action on the south coast.
Charles Blanning’s new book
Electric Rabbit is a fast-moving sequel to the author’s Rags To Riches, described by Country Life as “a thrilling page-turner.”
In the mid-1920’s suave American entrepreneur, Charles Alexander Munn II, brings a new idea in spectator sport to England – greyhound racing. With the help of financial net-worker and investor General Alfred Critchley, Munn develops stadia in Manchester and London which attract eager gamblers of all social classes in their tens of thousands.
But the vultures are gathering. The underworld senses a new opportunity. Protection rackets looting the bookmakers, and turf wars between rival gangs, stalk the new sport. Jack Howard, racehorse trainer and jockey, finds himself and his friends caught up in conspiracy and violence as greyhound racing prepares to stage its first gala occasion, the Greyhound Derby, in front of a crowd of 100,000 people.
Featuring horse racing, greyhound racing, hunting, coursing, and boxing, set in England and in Ireland, Electric Rabbit weaves a colourful and exciting tapestry of the sporting world of the 1920’s.
Electric Rabbit will be published in hardback on 1st September 2024 at £15, post free. Enquiries welcome at the Fullerton Press, Lower Bank, Winford Road, Chew Magna, BS40 8QE Tel 07901 824556 email [email protected]
Opens
Thursday: Hove
Friday: Romford
Saturday: Doncaster ♦ Yarmouth
Monday: Nottingham
