Our columnist is back with a guide to his Saturday runners at Haydock and Beverley.<\/p>\n
Haydock<\/strong><\/p>\n 13:30 Mearall<\/strong><\/p>\n I thought he ran a good race when sixth in the Palace Of Holyrood at Royal Ascot, he was racing away from the main action and was first home in his group.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying he\u2019ll be better for the run but it was only the fifth start of his life and that experience won\u2019t be lost on him. He\u2019s carrying near top weight in this but we\u2019re claiming off him with Warren Fentiman and if he brings the Ascot form to the table then he has to run well.<\/p>\n 15:50 Golden Strike<\/strong><\/p>\n He hasn\u2019t run since February so I\u2019d imagine he might be a little ring-rusty. He\u2019s a horse we\u2019ve always liked and he\u2019s down to 75 now but it does often take a run or two for them to get their eye in again.<\/p>\n 15:50 Rock Opera<\/strong><\/p>\n He\u2019s been running well all season from marks of 78 and 79 and I just feel the handicapper has got him. He hasn\u2019t won yet and we have no excuses. We\u2019re using Warren\u2019s claim again here, which we did with Rock Opera at Hamilton last time, so we\u2019ll give it another go.<\/p>\n Beverley<\/strong><\/p>\n 14:48 Come On Over<\/strong><\/p>\n Hand on heart I\u2019ve been a fraction disappointed with both his runs to date at Chester and Carlisle. That said he\u2019s quite a chubby little horse and we\u2019re hoping that run last week has put him absolutely spot-on.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to work out how much strength in depth there is to this race, he\u2019s not far behind the top-rated with Timeform of those who\u2019ve run. Again, I\u2019m hoping he\u2019s competitive.<\/p>\n 17:05 Up The Jazz<\/strong><\/p>\n There aren\u2019t many runners in this and our fellow was entitled to need his first run for three months at York last time. He needs to come forward from it but is below his last winning mark now.<\/p>\n The problem is he worked terribly last week, but he always does at Musley Bank. We can\u2019t get a read on him at home. At his best he\u2019d have a big chance.<\/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":"Our columnist is back with a guide to his Saturday runners at Haydock and Beverley. Haydock 13:30 Mearall…\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-237385","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\/114794964216338964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237385","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=237385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237385\/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=237385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}