No great joy yesterday with just a place for Zwicky from the sole tip race.

 

The NH Cards today at Bangor and Wincanton again deliver very poor field sizes, we will have a bash therefore at just the one race, the 10 runner North Wales National at Bangor. The AW Card at Kempton is similarly bereft of runners in the main.

 

The long list fields for the Cheltenham Handicaps have now been published so we will start to look closely at them. The first phase will weed out the likely non - runners due to not being highly enough rated in terms of handicap mark, and then we'll look at the likelier ones to run. We will start to look at the long term weather forecasts and probably drip out a few over the coming week or so. As always our major deliberations will be as always ON THE DAY with all aspects known in terms of runners, actual handicap marks and of course the critical Going and also any Trainer angles in terms of form and fitness of their runners. 

 

Of course it would not be Cheltenham without the usual Henderson scare/health/fitness malarkey, frankly to us it's completely irrelevant unless of course his handicappers are a bit below 100% health ,in which case it is important to us, otherwise it's the usual side show.