With the absence of Winter during the... winter months, are we going to have another wet few months heading into the festival
I seriously cant see how we are going to go through the next 2 months without a cold snap, bringing snow, wind, rain and so on. I can't see use having one of those spring festivals, with the ground men and women all rushing out to water the ground!
As a result, I'm going to take a look at one race which I have always crapped during my 8 or so years trying to get the bookies beaten. That race is the Tolworth...
Normally ran in the very testing of conditions, which had been a contrasted with fairly quick good fresh going in March. Last year was one of the first time we've seen conditions align and what happened... the two horses that finished 1st and 2nd in the Tolworth went onto replicate the positioning in the Champion Hurdle
Henderson has been known to throw a decent on into the Tolworth, often than not winning the race.
I'm not going to bored you, but I taking a dip into the 20/1's on offer for Rathill on the basis that
- I sure he will win this weekend. He was very impressive first time out, particularly as they went slow, so for a horse who I think will stay very well over 2 miles, he has already displayed the ability to switch through the gears
- Barry appears to be well contented with the horse first time out, appearing to know exactly how much left he had and that was proven in the final 1-2 furlongs. Very impressive seeing this in a horse on his first run under rules
- Winning this weekend which almost certainly half his price for the sumpreme
- he hits the pedigree markers which have always returned a winner in this race, unlike the well favored Angels Breath
- believe we'll see very testing conditions again in March, so want a horse that will go over soft-heavy.. i.e a Tolworth horse
... and for those reasons, I'm taking the 20's :very_drunk:
