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Alan Kelly's Tips - Friday, 26 June
Horse Racing tips for the meetings at Newcastle and Cartmel on Friday.
4:58pm Cartmel - Goodwin Face
Hampshire trainer Chris Gordon has just the one runner today at the popular Cumbrian racecourse, GOODWIN FACE in this 2m 1f amateur jockeys’ handicap hurdle. Raised 8lb for winning a Class 5 handicap at Plumpton last month, the mount of decent amateur Mr Henry Main (claims 5lb) is fancied to win again at the main expense of John Dawson’s mount Jolie Coeur Allen, one of two runners for the Ben Haslam stable.
A promising second on his first run of the season, again at Plumpton, the gelding’s first start for 11 months, Goodwin Face went down by just over a length to Lydia Richards’ Shalfa with the third horse home some 11 lengths away. With the winner going on to win again at Fontwell last month, the form looks pretty solid.
On a course which will suit the six-year-old son of No Risk At All, Goodwin Face can make the long journey a worthwhile one for connections.
Recommendation: Goodwin Face - 7/4 with bet365
6:53pm Newcastle - Diamond Rain (Nap)
Winner of this race 12 months ago on her only start on an artificial surface, Charlie Appleby’s DIAMOND RAIN (Nap) is very much the one to beat again, the daughter of Shamardal rated between 8lb and 17lb superior to her 6 rivals.
Godolphin’s five-year-old mare, narrowly beaten in the Grade 1 E P Taylor at Woodbine following her comfortable win at Gosforth Park, will be having just her second outing of the current campaign, the first coming courtesy of a creditable third in York’s Group 2 Middleton Stakes at the Dante meeting.
That form is much better than anything achieved by her rivals, best of which is Ed Walker’s hat-trick seeking Dreamasar, winner of a Listed race at Haydock last month. However, the mount of PJ McDonald will need to improve again if she is to trouble William Buick’s mount.
Recommendation: Diamond Rain (Nap) - 5/6 with Paddy Power
7:28pm Newcastle - Purosangue & Air Force One
A typically wide-open Gosforth Park Cup featuring a maximum field of 14 runners on Newcastle’s Tapeta surface. Previously with the Kingsclere stable of Andrew Balding, I have long felt that there is a valuable sprint handicap to be won with the five-year-old PUROSANGUE, one of four runners for trainer Robert Cowell, a specialist when it comes to this type of horse.
Now on a losing run of 17, the Aclaim gelding was sent off favourite for last year’s Ayr Gold Cup and lost nothing in defeat when finishing 4th of the 25 runners, beaten a length and a half by winner Run Boy Run. Now racing off a 2lb lower mark and following promising efforts this season at Pontefract and Newbury for the stable, the mount of Jason Hart would certainly not be winning out of turn if proving victorious in this £60k speed test.
I will also back the five-year-old AIR FORCE ONE for trainer Geoff Oldroyd, the mount of PJ McDonald. Fifth in a valuable handicap over today’s course and distance back in February, the Starspangledbanner gelding occupied the same position in a 16-runner handicap at York last month.
Beaten just a length following a slow start, Air Force One can go close if breaking better on this occasion.
Recommendations: Purosangue - 6/1 with Paddy Power & Air Force One - 7/1 with William Hill
* Betting odds correct at the time of publication. All odds are subject to changes.
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A passionate follower of horse racing for over 50 years, Alan has enjoyed a 40-year career in the betting industry, 28 of which he spent running his betting shop as an owner/manager.
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