Making the most of 6 and 7 places each way

[nortonscoin200]

With Skybet 7 places on the Ultima and several firms 6 places on the Boodles I thought there might be a bit of scope for some fancy each way doubles involving long-shots.

There will no doubt be similar extra places throughout the week so all sorts of combinations possible.

I've just done an each way Skybet double on ADMIRAL's SECRET at 16-1 in the Ultima (7 paces) and LONGCLAW in the Boodles at 28-1 (6 places.

Admiral's Secret is aged 10 (negative) and he's never run beyond 2m 4f (another negative).

But he's been in great form this season over fences and from watching his races he looks every inch a stayer.

There's no strength in depth to this field (and that's putting it politely) and I reckon the first seven is well within his compass off a nice weight.

Longclaw ran up a string of wins on yielding/yielding to soft ground last summer and I think he's just too big at 28-1 - specially with a useful 3lb claimer taking his weight under the 11st mark.

Don't know if this one will work out but imagine there could be several opportunities across the week for making these extra places count in big priced doubles/trebles.

 

[Atlantic Viking]

Mentioned on another thread but Betfair SB are going 7 places on the Coral Cup too, as are Sky and Paddy.
Same 3 firms also going 6 places for the Grand Annual.

 

[Kevloaf]

Vintage Clouds and even Cepage now he's 16/1 have tweaked my interest....

 

[Eggs]

....rather than do my normal Placepot (I think dividends will be down with no crowds), I’ve done an e/w accumulator on my first 6 competition selections with enhanced place terms.

I’ll do the same each day.

 

[Faugheen_Machine]

....rather than do my normal Placepot (I think dividends will be down with no crowds), I’ve done an e/w accumulator on my first 6 competition selections with enhanced place terms.

I’ll do the same each day.

The tote pools might not be too bad as I think there'll be quite a bit of overseas money going into them.

I'll be checking the pool size before I place my bet tomorrow. If it is significantly down, I won't bother with them

 

[nortonscoin200]

Vintage Clouds and even Cepage now he's 16/1 have tweaked my interest....

Dismiss Admiral's Secret at your peril Kev.

His career record on good to soft is 3 RR 1 2 1 1 3.

And his two runs this season (both on soft) have produced a career best rpr of 148 on each occasion.

 

[charlie]

Dismiss Admiral's Secret at your peril Kev.

His career record on good to soft is 3 RR 1 2 1 1 3.

And his two runs this season (both on soft) have produced a career best rpr of 148 on each occasion.

You ideally want a horse that's recorded their best RPR over 3m for this and AS is untested over this trip which would put me off as 3m is a big unknown

 

[nortonscoin200]

You ideally want a horse that's recorded their best RPR over 3m for this and AS is untested over this trip which would put me off as 3m is a big unknown

Most of the time I'd entirely agree Charlie.

But I watched his last 3 or 4 races back and on each occasion he did all his best work at the finish and looked as though he wanted further.

And I'm only expecting him to finish seventh - that'd do nicely.

 

[charlie]

I've done

Milan Native 7/1 7 places
Sage Advice 20/1 6 places
Shang Tang 22/1 7 places

1pt EW (place returns 60 points)