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Despite an excellent day on Wednesday, including a 6/1 winning nap, it was a week of hard lines and bad luck, starting with the fall of our 13/8 nap Grain Trade at Market Rasen on Tuesday, the horse stumbling after jumping the last with the race won.
The most frustrating, however, was the performance of 17/2 chance All In You in Saturday's Scottish Champion Hurdle, James Bowen's mount still cruising behind leader Tutti Quanti, only to be almost brought down by the favourite at the second last. A bit of good fortune in the week ahead would be very welcome.
- P/L for the week ending Sunday, 19 April: -£8.57
- P/L for the year 2026 to date: +£48.78
- P/L for the year 2025: +£22.38
- P/L for the year 2024: +£200.42
- P/L since 1st September 2022: +£549.44
Alan Kelly's Tips - Tuesday, 21 April
With the prospect of little rain, current conditions of good to soft, good in places for Pontefract’s card on Tuesday are expected to improve to good all over by the time racing gets underway.
3:27pm Pontefract - Insanity (Nap)
Beaten less than seven lengths in last season’s Cambridgeshire, Sean Woods’ Savvy Victory has his ideal conditions for this Class 2 handicap over a mile and a quarter; the New Bay gelding will be more at home than when outclassed in the Listed Magnolia Stakes at Kempton earlier in the month.
Dylan Cunha’s Fireblade won races at Leicester and Ascot last year, along with several decent efforts in defeat. However, the five-year-old is likely to be found wanting over this kind of trip of 1m 2f. James Tate’s Flying Frontier is more than capable of a big run, although Callum Rodriguez’ mount is expected to come on for the run, the six-year-old’s first for almost 8 months.
Another horse who will be having his first run of the season is the Alan King-trained INSANITY (Nap), the mount of jockey Rossa Ryan. The son of Nathaniel has a good record fresh and performed with credit last season over distances ranging from an extended 1m 2f to 1m 5f.
Just touched-off in a handicap at York’s October meeting (Have Secret back in 6th place), Insanity ended the year in finishing 12th of 22 in Doncaster’s November Handicap on heavy ground. Off the same mark of 99 as when runner-up on the Knavesmire, Insanity is anything but a mad bet to take the feature race on Pontefract’s card.
Recommendation: Insanity (Nap)
4:02pm Pontefract - Great (Each-Way)
Ben Haslam’s all-weather winning machine Yorkshire Glory will be going for a seven-timer this afternoon following victories at Newcastle (4), Southwell and Wolverhampton over the last couple of months. The Cotai Glory gelding has yet to win on turf, but has some decent efforts to his name, including over one mile at Musselburgh and Ayr last summer.
The mount of 7lb claimer Harry Vigors has been a revelation since dropping down to today’s trip of 6f on an artificial surface and may well prove up to defying a career-high mark of 73 in this Class 5 contest. While there are no prices for the race as I write, Sam England’s four-year-old GREAT (Each-Way) gets the vote with Yorkshire Glory expected to dictate the market.
Previously with trainer Richard Hannon, the Twilight Son gelding opened his account with a victory in a Windsor maiden last May before ending the year with a close third over 7f at Kempton in October. After being gelded, Oisin Orr’s mount joined connections last month, making his stable debut at Southwell shortly afterwards.
Clearly in need of that first run when beating only one rival home, Great improved to finish 6th of 15 at Thirsk 11 days ago over today’s trip. The selection was staying-on nicely at the end of that race, and off a career-low mark of 72, Great is fancied to make the frame at the very least.
Recommendation: Great (Each-Way)
* Betting odds correct at the time of publication. All odds are subject to changes.
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