Review of the day

De Faoithesdream was a little disappointing this afternoon.

He led the field from the off, as I’d hoped – and despite being harassed for most of the journey, still seemed to be travelling quite nicely, jumping the third last.

From that point however, he just quietly backed out of things – and ultimately finished next to last.

It was quite strange to witness – and frustrating because neither of the race favourites featured in the finish (and I was quite keen to take them on).

Instead, the race was won, very comfortably, by Sea Wall.

I could almost as easily, have sided with him this morning – but I just felt that De Faoithesdream was the better animal…

In the opener on the card, Saffran De Cotte was amazingly, backed down to 3/1 – but finished well beaten (again).

In fairness, he did travel quite nicely in his first time blinkers – but it was clear with a circuit to go, that he wasn’t going to get home.

I can’t imagine where connections go with him from here…

Gallic Warrior was good winner of the handicap chase at 3:15.
I thought his price of 7/2 this morning was a bit tight – so I couldn’t have been remotely interested in him, at the SP of 2/1.

Ofcourse, that was never going to stop him form winning – and he duly did…

Finally, something appeared to be wrong with Wychwoods Brook in the handicap chase at 4:15 and he was pulled up before half way.
Second favourite, Sonny the One took advantage – but he only just managed to hold off Cork Citizen.

It was a really big run from the runner-up on his debut for David Pipe – particularly as he was very weak in the betting (6/1 early out to 12/1 at the off).

You have to think that he won’t be long going one better – though I suspect the market won’t be quite so generous next time…

TVB.