Three runners for our columnist on the opening day of the Betfred Derby Festival. Check out his thoughts on them all.<\/p>\n
15:15 Ecureuil Secret<\/strong><\/p>\n He’s only had one run for us and is in good form at home. We’re learning about him and will find out whether he’s a handicapper or a Group horse. He’s drawn out in 11 which is a little wider than I’d have ideally liked but this is a great place to get him started, trip and track will be fine and he won\u2019t mind if there is rain.<\/p>\n 15:15 Have Secret<\/strong><\/p>\n He\u2019s been running well of late and I couldn\u2019t knock him at Ripon the other day when he finished second to a horse who got away from them. It\u2019s just in the back of my mind that every time we\u2019ve stepped him up into this sort of grade before he\u2019s struggled, but I like the draw in three.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the be all and end all at Epsom but I do like to be close to the rail and he is so let\u2019s hope he can take advantage. <\/p>\n 17:10 Golden Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m very happy with him right now. He\u2019s a hard horse to get to grips with and is still carrying around a big rating from his two-year-old days but I think he could run well in this if he handles the track.<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a><\/strong> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a><\/strong> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three runners for our columnist on the opening day of the Betfred Derby Festival. Check out his thoughts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114631104474510051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}