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Yahoo Sport UK horse racing Lucky 15 – Wednesday’s top selections
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All four selections on the suggested Lucky 15 won on Tuesday, netting a cool £155.19 to a £1 stake unit.
Take a look at our Lucky 15 selections (four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a four-fold) for the British meetings on Wednesday, December 7, 2016.
GENEROUS HELPINGS (Leicester 2.25) was in command when left clear three out in a 3m1f handicap hurdle at Huntingdon in late October. Though winning by 24 lengths, it was no fluke. The Gary Moore-trained seven-year-old had shown improvement previously when two-lengths third of 11 to subsequent scorer Looksnowtlikebrian at Fontwell and the runner-up, Earls Fort, has since rattled up a hat-trick. The handicapper took a dim view of the selection’s sole win and has hiked him 12lb, so he will have plenty on his plate giving away 7lb and more to his seven rivals in the 2m4½f conditional jockeys’ novices’ hurdle, but 8lb claimer William Clarke gets on well with him and the partnership should give another good account.
CLAN LEGEND (Hexham 12.45) was successful in four of his five outings on soft/heavy ground last term until he found a class jump and another 7lb rise for a course and distance win beyond him when pulled up in a 2m soft-ground handicap hurdle at Ayr in April. In truth, he may have just been over the top after a long season, but more likely he found the drying ground against him that day. Nick Alexander, whose string is in fine fettle, starts the six-year-old’s chasing career off in an extended 1m7½f handicap off a mark of 118, but crucially, the expected heavy ground will be very much in his favour.
LANDMEAFORTUNE (Hexham 1.15) is a maiden in six point-to-points and 10 races under Rules, so the Martin Todhunter-trained seven-year-old is not going to be on everyone’s betting radar as he lines up against nine rivals for an extended 3m handicap chase, his second try over fences. While he was beaten 24 lengths at Ayr in a novices’ handicap chase on his first start for over seven months in soft ground, the winner, Titian Boy, followed up on Monday in a handicap chase. Down 2lb for that first outing of the season and in a slightly weaker race, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that he will break his duck.
THE SALMON MAN (Lingfield Park 2.05) has also had more than a few chances to get off the mark, so connections of the Brendan Powell-trained four-year-old will hope that he can go one better than when short-headed at Kempton Park in a better 1m2f handicap last time. He looked to have every move covered before Solveig’s Song swept past near the line, so may have been a shade unlucky. He drops into maiden company this afternoon, over the same trip that he clearly enjoys, and given his rating of 73, unless one of the more unexposed of the five rivals finds improvement, then the selection should take the beating.
OTHER SELECTIONS:
HEXHAM: 12.15 Great Tempo, 12.45 Clan Legend (nb), 1.15 Landmeafortune, 1.45 Floramoss, 2.15 Just Georgie, 2.45 Turtle Cask, 3.15 Miss Conway
LEICESTER: 12.55 Foundation Man, 1.25 Abricot De L’oasis, 1.55 Unify, 2.25 GENEROUS HELPINGS (NAP), 2.55 Destiny’s Gold, 3.25 Prince Khurram
LINGFIELD PARK: 12.05 Carolinae, 12.35 Greyfroiarschorista, 1.05 Kirtling, 1.35 Take Two, 2.05 The Salmon Man, 2.35 He’s No Saint, 3.05 Estibdaad, 3.35 Bloodsweatandtears
KEMPTON PARK: 3.45 Medahim, 4.15 Things Happen, 4.45 Footman, 5.15 Intermodal, 5.45 Gamrah, 6.15 Rebel State, 6.45 Alcatraz, 7.15 Timekeeping
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