the INSIDER
TODAY I will be strong and won’t just back anything. I will keep to a plan. No deviation. Yesterday was painful – top filly, working brilliantly, just needed to turn up. She must have been due at a different track! Must learn from my mistakes. Will CARLTON HOUSE be a mistake? Top trainer, top jockey and the Queen. Surely this is it? However there is a worry about the horse’s well being. Should we listen? Have we not heard it all before?
I didn’t back Kris Kin when he rose from the dead to win the Derby in 2003 (he had a stone bruise and looked certain to miss the race in the days before), but I know someone who said it was their best bet of the year. I’m going to treat the Queen’s horse as my best bet of the day. Of course, I’m frightened of Recital and think Vadamar might hit the frame, but then again they won’t beat Stoute’s best. Surely not?
The Woodcote isn’t the strongest two-year-old listed race so far this season and we will have to wait for Royal Ascot to see the main players. So far fillies have dominated the colts and it may well continue, but my money will be on CASPAR NETSCHER. Beaten at Pontefract by Misty Conquest, I expect him to turn the tables for the colts and geldings. Ridden by Johnny Murtagh he can ease his way around Tattenham Corner balanced and poised ready to strike.
Bit worried about the Dash. Had put up La Fortunata as my tip but have now decided to back FATHOM FIVE. Just have the feeling that everything has dropped right.
YORGUNNABELUCKY if you manage to pick a forecast at a big meeting, and if you do, you were probably BOURNE lucky! But today might be the day. Put them together (in the 4.50pm), but back Cumani to give Fallon a pick-me-up after losing the Derby.