![]() With her stable in decent form, Tom Ward's SAVANNAH SMILES makes each-way appeal now back down in trip having not run her race over seven furlongs when last seen. This looks a wide-open contest, as you'd probably expect for a three-year-old basement level handicap. Never miss a story with all the latest racing news, interviews and features on your phone. In my view, this looks an excellent bit of placing from Kelleway and Haaland can score his third victory of 2023. While the leading quartet finished fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, it was Moore's charge that came through from the rear late on. The race won by Stan Moore's Mirabello Bay on March 8 looked to fall apart, with the front quartet going too fast and setting it up for horses ridden off that pace. ![]() That race saw the Johnston three-year-old gifted an easy time of it on the front end, something he doesn't look guaranteed here, and his price looks skinny by contrast in these conditions. In fact, Balding's Logistical gives us a good comparable form line here having been beaten a length by Charlie Johnston's Timewave on January 17. I thought that run was another step forward on his two victories off lesser marks and he faces nothing of the quality of that pair here. In Tabaretta (90) and Mighty River (87), he just bumped into horses in a slightly different league on that occasion but pulled seven lengths clear of Andrew Balding's Logistical in fourth in a run that didn't disgrace him. I can't understand the forecast 4/1 price of Gay Kelleway's HAALAND, with this contest being dramatically easier than the handicap he contested over course and distance on January 30. Image: Emma Lavelle's The Street won at Chepstow in February 2022 I can forgive a pulled-up effort at Fontwell off the back of that and, following a break, he could return freshened up and nicely handicapped off 117. The two falls came in his two starts over fences and the chasing experiment was swiftly abandoned. My speculative interest lies with Emma Lavelle's returning seven-year-old THE STREET, who is on a bit of a retrieval mission after falling and pulling up when last seen in November and December. When encountering soft ground over three miles or further, she's been beaten 15, 44 and 27 lengths. Having been ridden by Harry Bannister at Doncaster on February 22, for which she was penalised 4lb, she'll have 7lb claimed off her back courtesy of Charlie Case but there would have to be some concerns over her stamina on the forecast soft ground over this three-mile-and-one-furlong trip. ![]() Ben Case's eight-year-old mare Midnightreflection has made use of a drop in class to record second and first-place finishes on her last two starts, but off a mark of 124 remains 5lb below her career-high winning mark of 129. In last-time-out winners Midnightreflection and Gerico Ville you've got a pair worthy of fighting out favouritism for this handicap hurdle contest. I'd say connections will by eyeing some black type for their valuable mare at some stage and she'd certainly have to win this to continue on that path. Weekend Winners: ‘Jonbon can take down El Fabiolo in Arkle’Ĭheltenham Festival preview: Facile Vega 'an absolute banker' ![]()
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