So it’s been a good couple of days for the thread and more importantly for Lady Cecil. You probably won’t be surprised to hear that tomorrow is about one horse for me and that is
Hot Snap
. She was touted by the master trainer long before the season started and showed what all the fuss was about by winning the Nell Gwyn despite being green as grass. She then flopped in the Guineas running unaccountably poorly and the horse she beat easily in the Nell Gwyn won the blasted thing.
Now we have to ask EITHER what went wrong that day and is she over it? OR was the Nell Gwyn a fluke? Well given Sir Henry’s opinion of her I would say it was certainly no fluke so it must surely be the former. Nothing particular has come to light from that day apart from the ground being a bit quick and that she was not herself before the race. She has been given lots of time to get over that day and the ground is still just about good enough for her to take her chance but can she beat two classic winning fillies as well as two of my favourites from this year? Sajhaa won twice for me in Meydan and Integral is a filly with a huge future. In short it looks a fantastic race and not one I will be chucking lots of money at. My heart would love to see Hot Snap win but my head tells me it might be tough. I see she is attracting lots of support tonight though so I will have a little each way just for fun.
Elsewhere I think Lady Cecil can have a very good day with the likes of Court Pastoral, Autun and Spiritoftomintoul all having good chances but my other bet for tomorrow will probably have anyone reading this scratching their heads as I am going to back that useless old nag
World Domination
again! His form since the Dante has been appalling but why do they keep this horse in training? His work is always good but somehow he isn’t able to produce that on the track. Perhaps tomorrow will be the day, perhaps it won’t but at 16-1 I am prepared to find out.
£25ew Hot Snap – 7-1 – Goodwood 3.15
£25ew World Domination – 16-1 – Doncaster 4.10
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