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Yahoo Sport UK horse racing Lucky 15 – Sunday’s top selections
Yahoo Sport UK has teamed up with Bet4Causes to bring you a preview of the day’s British racing – and The Night Hawk marks your card.
Each day we will provide a preview of the day’s racing and offering what the experts feel will be the value bets of the day.
With the NAP and Next Best selections both winning on Saturday, take a look at our Lucky 15 selections (four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a four-fold) for the British meetings on Sunday, December 4, 2016.
DODGING BULLETS (Huntingdon 2.00) clearly has some questions to answer and his run today’s Grade 2 Peterborough Chase may go some way to answer whether we have seen the best of the former Champion Chaser. At the weights, he looked sure to be ultra-competitive in a Grade 2 at Ascot last month, but got very worked up beforehand and ran as though something was amiss, before being pulled up. Nothing apparently came to light. Still rated 159, despite not having won since taking last year’s Champion Chase, the Paul Nicholls-trained eight-year-old is in receipt of 6lb from likely favourite Josses Hill in the extended 2m3½f event and this first run at this venue may just pique his interest.
MOUNT MEWS (Kelso 12.20) looked a decent prospect when following up his comfortable winning debut at Market Rasen with an eye-catching performance under a penalty here last time, scooting to a 10-length bumper win without coming under any great degree of pressure. The Malcolm Jefferson-trained five-year-old son of Presenting makes his hurdling debut against 13 rivals but must overcome a 214-day lay-off as he makes his seasonal debut. He is one worth following, whatever the outcome in this extended 2m novices’ hurdle.
OH MICHELLE (Huntingdon 3.00) was very green on her debut in a 2m soft-ground bumper at Ffos Las last month, running in snatches but staying on to be a never-nearer four-length second to Just A Thought. The five-year-old is a daughter of Grenfell, who was a bumper and multiple point-to-point winner for the Nigel Twiston-Davies yard. She was also placed in staying chases, so versatility may well be in her genetic make-up. She will have learned plenty form her debut and better can be expected in a similar bumper, albeit she tackles a couple of previous winners.
AUX PETITS SOINS (Kelso 12.50) may be good enough to take the Paris Pike Novices’ Chase. The race, named after Ferdy Murphy’s stable star, who won the Scottish National as a novice chaser, looks a really hot contest, with five promising chasers locking horns. It is the Paul Nicholls inmate we side with, as the six-year-old produced a pleasing return to action despite being a long odds-on runner-up to Drumlee Sunset at Exeter last month. He was rated 152 over hurdles after his Coral Cup victory in 2015 and was well backed for that chasing bow. However, he made a couple of novicey errors and ran as though he would come on a bundle for the run.
OTHER SELECTIONS:
HUNTINGDON: 12.30 Demographic, 1.00 Bishops Court, 1.30 Herons Heir, 2.00 DODGING BULLETS (NAP), 2.30 Swoop To Conquer, 3.00 Oh Michelle, 3.30 Copperfacejack
KELSO: 12.20 Mount Mews (nb), 12.50 Aux Petits Soins, 1.20 Floramoss, 1.50 Endeavor, 2.20 Grove Silver, 2.50 Dynaste, 3.20 Toarmandowithlove
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