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Yahoo Sport UK’s horse racing Lucky 15 – Sunday’s top selections
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Each day we will provide you with a preview of the day’s racing, offering what the experts feel will be the value bets of the day.
Take a look at our Lucky 15 selections (four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a four-fold) for the British and Irish meetings on Sunday, July 17, 2016.
LUCIDA (Curragh 4.15) is the class act in a highly competitive renewal of the Group 2 Kilboy Estate Stakes, a 1m1f contest for fillies and mares. She has lost her way a bit since landing the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket in September 2014. However, all but two of her subsequent seven runs have been in Group 1 company. Her best runs have come on quicker ground and she has run on Yielding or soft ground on her last three runs. Jim Bolger’s four-year-old was upped in trip to 10f for the first time last time here for the Irish Pretty Polly but was well held by Minding and we did not learn much, as the ground was against her. It is hard to gauge whether she truly got this trip, but he drops back to 1m1f and at least will hopefully get ground officially described as Good.
INVOCATION (Newton Abbot 2.05) does not have a great deal of experience, having had just five runs on the level (when rated 77) before producing a fair first run over hurdles for Alan King, when beaten 5½l by Jazzy over 2m½f at Stratford. While he was half a length behind the re-opposing Schoolboy Error, the feeling is the selection will have a little more scope for improvement and this juvenile hurdle over a similar trip won’t take a great deal of winning.
TIME IS MONEY (Stratford 3.55) represents Emma Lavelle, who sends a strong team to the Warwickshire venue. The seven-year-old underwent a significant leap in form when scoring in an extended 2m4f mares’ maiden hurdle at Southwell after a two-month break. She had previously ran down the field in two novice hurdles, but had won a Wincanton bumper on her debut last year. Decent ground is key for this seven-year-old daughter of Presenting and Emma’s form is in great heart following the recent move to spectacular new premises at Ogbourne Maizey. The selection makes her debut in a handicap off a mark of 112, which seems a little high for what she has achieved, but she rates a value play in the 2m6f event.
INGLEBY HOLLOW (Redcar 5.50) bids for a hat-trick, having scored at Ayr (1m5f, soft) and at Thirsk (2m, good) with cheekpieces seemingly working the oracle for the David O’Meara-trained four-year-old. He is a big, scopey individual who did well to back-up so quickly after his exertions in bad ground and while shouldering a double penalty today, he may well defy it in a competitive 0-70 1m6f apprentices’ handicap for which he is 6lb well in, given his rider’s claim.
OTHER SELECTIONS
CURRAGH: 2.00 Canberra Cliffs, 2.35 Istan, 3.05 Flight Risk, 3.40 Rayisa, 4.15 LUCIDA (NAP), 4.50 Glamorous Approach, 5.25 Surprisingly, 5.55 Hard Times
NEWTON ABBOT: 2.05 Invocation (nb), 2.40 As You Like, 3.10 Gabrial The Great, 3.45 Sheer Poetry, 4.20 Ruddy Article, 4.55 Kentford Myth, 5.30 Crazy Train
REDCAR: 1.55 Poet’s Charm, 2.30 Spirit Of The Sea, 3.00 Grandest, 3.35 Roaring Rory, 4.10 Our Boy Jack, 4.45 Explain, 5.20 Barwah, 5.50 Ingleby Hollow
STRATFORD: 2.15 Kudu County, 2.50 Tahira, 3.20 Set List, 3.55 Time Is Money, 4.30 Presenting Streak, 5.05 Marley Joe, 5.40 Vendredi Trois, 6.10 Oscar Rose
TIPPERARY: 2.20 Killarney Lakes, 2.55 Steamboat Bill, 3.25 Lettermacaward, 4.00 King Leon, 4.35 Show And Go, 5.10 Samanntom, 5.45 Black Ace
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