Our star duo are back with two bets across today's meetings.
0.5pt e.w. Pedley Wood in the 1:15 Ffos Las at 12/1 (General ⅕ 1,2,3,4) - min 10/1
1pt win Jour d’Evasion in the 2:50 Sandown at 5/1 (General) - min 9/2
There are some nicely handicapped horses in here if you’re the forgiving sort, but all of them carry a fairly high level of risk and so with Joe Tizzard still churning out the winners this autumn, it may pay to stick with Pedley Wood, not least as he won first time up last year, that being the first time he saw a fence, when beating Abuffalosoldier 2¾ lengths on good ground at Hereford. He followed that up by scoring again at Taunton on his next start, hit the frame at both Kempton and Wincanton and his only poor effort came on his final start at Plumpton when he’d probably had enough for the year.
Given all that, he still starts this season off on a mark of 104, which looks more than workable. Trip and ground are both ideal, and he looks a player in a race big on numbers, but that can be whittled down fairly quickly.
We didn’t get much of a run from Jour d’Evasion at Ascot last week, with the 5-y-o tipping up at the very first flight, but he finds himself in a much weaker race a week on and is taken to make amends. The selection beat a subsequent handicap winner at Ludlow earlier in the year and looks favourably handicapped on that and a subsequent placed effort at Hereford where he found the sharp test against him. Sandown should suit ideally and there are questions over all of his rivals here, making it sensible to give him another chance.
Published at 1009 GMT 10/11/24
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