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David Massey had a 10/1 winner Friday and he provides today's Punting Pointers with three selections at Cheltenham.
Racing Betting Tips: Saturday November 16
1pt win Transmission in the 1.10 Cheltenham at 7/2 (Boylesports, min 3/1)
1pt win Lookaway in the 1.45 Cheltenham at 3/1 (Bet365, Hills, min 11/4)
1pt e.w Ga Law in the 2:20 Cheltenham at 11/2 (1/5 1,2,3,4 Hills, Ladbrokes, take no lower)
1:10 Cheltenham
TRANSMISSION looks the one to beat. He really caught the eye on his first chase start for Neil Mulholland at the October meeting, looking in need of the run beforehand (quite a bit of belly still on him) but still looked like throwing down a challenge to Hyland before that lack of a run kicked in, and he looked a tired horse after the last. That form was franked yesterday, and the booking of Patrick Mullins cannot be ignored either.
1:45 Cheltenham
L’Eau Du Sud is clearly talented but the handicapper sticking him up to 148 for the Stratford win looks an overreaction, and I don’t think he’s as far clear as the ratings suggest. Timeform give him a small “j” for ”jumped well” on his Stratford debut, but that’s to completely ignore what he did at the fourth where he guessed and almost banked the fence - if he does that here, he’ll not get away with it. I’d be happy to take him on around evens, for sure.
LOOKAWAY is the one I want to be with. He has always threatened to make a better chaser than he did a hurdler, and he was a good hurdler, so it was hardly a surprise he was able to make a winning chase debut in a match at Uttoxeter a fortnight ago. He looked like a run would bring him on there too, and I liked the way he jumped in a very solid but unspectacular fashion, suggesting he was learning a bit as he went. He dug in after the last to see off Personal Ambition by a length, a good, well-rounded first go over fences. He should progress and won’t mind the good ground at all.
2:20 Cheltenham
GA LAW is the pick in a Paddy Power short on obvious improvers and the selection has a really solid profile at trips short of 3m when the going is good. His lifetime record on such a surface reads 11121F22, improving to 111212 at around this trip. He returned to action with an excellent second to Grandeur d'Ame in a 2m3½f handicap at Chepstow last month, beaten two lengths by a useful rival to whom he was conceding 22lb.
Ga Law had several of today’s rivals behind when second at Chepstow and he produced an excellent effort on the clock that day, matching anything he had achieved previously. He’s got nothing to hide from the handicapper, but class should tell in this renewal of Cheltenham’s traditional curtain-raiser, and he looks nigh-on impossible to kick out of the frame. His win in this race two years ago shows how well suited he is to a race of this nature and horses who run well in big Cheltenham handicaps tend to continue to do so even when climbing the weights. He’s obviously much higher in the weights than he was in 2022 but that isn’t by accident and the eight-year-old is at his physical peak now.
Published at 0955 GMT 16/11/24
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