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Alan Kelly's Tips - Wednesday, 28 January
Following the abandonment of the jumps cards at Exeter and Leicester we head to the evening all-weather meeting at Kempton Park for Wednesday's horse racing tips.
5:30pm Kempton - Portoro
There are few better amateurs riding on the flat than Mr Simon Walker and Mr Eireann Cagney; the two talented jockeys both have decent claims of taking this Class 6 sprint handicap courtesy of Southbank and Pinjarra respectively.
The latter was sent off the 9/4 favourite for a 6f handicap at Lingfield 11 days ago only to weaken into fifth place after attempting to make all of the running. Three places in front of Pinjarra was the held-up Southbank, who, despite staying on strongly in the closing stages, never posed a threat to comfortable winner Porfin.
If Pinjarra settles better on this occasion, I expect John & Sean Quinn’s charge to reverse that form. The vote, however, goes to the Martin Dunne-trained PORTORO, although I have to admit I know very little about the six-year-old’s partner Miss Leah Bahham, who claims 7lb.
The stable has recorded a couple of wins courtesy of Sam’s Hope recently and in Portoro he has a horse who has performed well on his last two visits to Kempton, the first when finishing second of 12 over 7f in September 2024, after which the gelding went one better over the same course and distance three months later.
Equally effective over today’s furlong shorter trip, Portoro looked the winner over 7f at Southwell on his most recent start earlier in the month until weakening close home. With a similar effort, the selection is expected to go close.
Recommendation: Portoro - 11/4 with bet365
7.30pm Kempton - Seeing Stars (Nap)
I expect it to be a case of fourth time lucky for the William Knight-trained SEEING STARS (Nap), who can finally land her first victory by taking this maiden fillies stakes after occupying the runner-up spot on all three starts to date. Luke Morris’s mount may have faced decent rivals in all three of those defeats, the first coming by the narrowest of margins to James Horton’s Hamdania at Wolverhampton towards the beginning of last month.
Returning to that track after Christmas, Seeing Stars, after travelling strongly, failed to match strides in the closing stages with Sir Mark Prescott’s newcomer Chantelle (won again at Wolverhampton on Monday). On her most recent start at Southwell three weeks ago, Seeing Stars had to settle for second place once again behind Karl Burke’s Ellusive Butterfly, previously third in a Deauville Listed race behind a horse who would go on to finish runner-up in a Group 1 at Longchamp’s Arc meeting.
The selection is unlikely to face anything of that calibre on this occasion, best of which may be Tom Dascombe’s Show Me Gold, and Flyta, who almost caused a massive upset when second at odds of 250/1 on this course two weeks ago.
Recommendation: Seeing Stars (Nap) - 9/4 with bet365
* Betting odds correct at the time of publication. All odds are subject to changes.
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