Galway 5.55

Galway 5.55 11 Motcombe Street - 1 point each way @ 10/1 (early WH + BV) - Lads/ Coral / PP / Sky go generally 8/1 to 5 places

I will focus on this 2mile and 130 yards Handicap Hurdle today; 20 runners and enhanced odds (see above). I always look for Course form or form on left hand uphill finishes. The finish here is tough, far tougher than you think on TV and I always want a good jumper and some added stamina. MOTCOMBE STREET had a Flat run around a month ago and will strip fitter for it. Runner up on its last 2 Hurdle runs beaten by decent horses and running well to and through the line. He is a superb jumper, clearly going to make up in to a decent two and a half mile Chaser, from a canny Yard who love a plot, and this looks like a plot. The booking of Rachel Blackmore is in my eyes the "icing on the cake". We are producing some great lady pilots on this side of The Irish Sea and the Irish have had a few of their own, some of whom may have lived a bit off "family names" but Ms Blackmore is in my opinion the cream of the cream, so many times for coincidence putting the horse in just the right place at the right time in a finish. I will be very disappointed if we are not picking up some decent place money at the very least.