Horse Racing Betting Tips: No Drama for Johnny and Lampang on the Knavesmire
KING Power Racing have had an excellent season, with Morando’s win in last Saturday’s Cumberland Lodge Stakes the latest Group level prize the operation has snared this campaign.
After such a difficult 12 months, they have been rewarded with plenty of success and I can see them celebrating again at York tomorrow.
The coral.co.uk Rockingham Stakes (2.40pm) is the best quality contest on the Knavesmire where I expect King Power’s LAMPANG to take all the beating for Tim Easterby.
It is rare for the Easterby yard to have a debut winner, so my selection went into plenty of notebooks when impressively landing a six-furlong Carlisle novice event after blowing the start.
Highly regarded by his trainer, he bolted up at Ripon a couple of weeks ago in another novice on good-to-soft ground, which indicates he will have no problem with tomorrow’s surface.
Silvestre de Sousa, recently back from injury, is heading up the A1 rather than staying at home in Newmarket, and you can be pretty sure the main reason is this son of Dandy Man.
Easterby has won this prize three times in the past seven years and I will be backing Lampang at 6/4 with Ladbrokes to keep up that run.
It could be a fantastic afternoon for the owners, as I also like Andrew Balding’s JOHNNY DRAMA in the Smart Money’s On Coral Handicap (3.15pm).
He ran a cracking race to be second to Forest Of Dean over course and distance two starts back when the ground was probably a little quick for him.
He disappointed last time at Newbury, but a return to this track with a bit more cut in the ground should see him go close at 9/2 with the sponsors.
POINTERS SATURDAY
Lampang 2.40pm York
Johnny Drama 2.40pm York