Today's tips: Racing preview and best bets
Rory Delargy looks ahead to today's racing and he's got recommended bets for Warwick.
Racing betting tips: Tuesday September 24
1pt win Roll With It in the 2.55 Warwick at 9/2 (General – min 4/1)
1pt win Jimmy The Digger in the 3.30 Warwick at 16/1 (Bet365 – min 12/1)
2:55 Warwick – Class 4 Novices' Handicap Chase 3m
The thing to bear in mind at Warwick is significant rainfall since the weekend and while the official description is good to soft, it would be no surprise to see it ride slower. Two of the more fancied contenders are likely to be Itso Fury and G A Henty, but I’m far from convinced the former wants three miles - especially on softish ground - and the latter would definitely prefer a sound surface having failed to beat a rival in three starts (including a point) when the ground has been genuinely soft or heavy.
Exmoor Forest could bounce back after a poor effort at Market Rasen, but he’s not an easy watch so the obvious one is ROLL WITH IT, winner of two of his last three over fences and successful on soft ground over hurdles. His jumping was rather slipshod early on over fences, but he is getting better with experience and simply has fewer black marks than the others.
3:30 Warwick - Weatherbys Stallion Book Handicap Chase 3m1f100y
Catching JIMMY THE DIGGER fresh has often been the key to him and although he’s getting on in years, he’s fairly lightly raced for an 11-year-old and he seemed to retain all his ability despite a blank 2023/24 campaign. His best effort, typically, came when unseating his rider on his return to action in a veterans’ chase at Aintree, looking unlucky as he was travelling well close up at the time, and simply lost his footing a couple of strides after clearing the eleventh fence.
His record after a break of 150+ days reads 221U, and the handicapper has given him a real chance, starting this season 13lb lower than for that Aintree effort, and if he’s going to repeat that form, it’s likely to be first time out for the season.
Preview posted at 0950 BST 24/09/24
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