Monday’s Selections, Review & Results (08 August)

Monday's Selections include Polemica ridden by Umberto Rispoli:

Lingfield

15:00     Country Road NON RUNNER

17:00     Valmina 2^nd

Thirsk

20:30     Soprano 1^st

Windsor

19:10     Viva Vettori NON RUNNER

Wolverhampton

15:15     Glenridding 1^st

15:15     Polemica 2^nd

Another good day with a profit of +5.15

If you’re wondering who Umberto Rispoli is, he’s a 22 year old Italian (really – with a name like that?!) who has been champion jockey in Italy for the past 2 years.  He holds the record for most winners (245) in Italy having beaten Gianfranco Dettori’s previous record of 229 winners.

Gianfranco riding Wollow

Umberto’s no stranger to the UK having spent 07-08 here riding for Marco Botti.  So he knows his way around a horse and the UKs racecourses and there could be some value in his rides for the first few days while he’s still under the radar.  

Umberto winning on Aoife Alainn 

 

Windsor 18:10 6f Class 3 2yo Conditions Stakes

This looks to be a decent enough race with a couple of the runners already having contested graded races - North Star Boy and Rebellious Guest.  North Star Boy finished ahead of Rebellious Guest in the Coventry at Ascot in June but did have the advantage of a kinder draw (drawn 20 where the winner was drawn 19, 2^nd drawn 23 and 3^rd drawn 22).  I would suggest a slight question mark over the 6f trip for North Star Boy?  Of the field only Rebellious Guest holds Gr1 entries for the future (6f & 7f) and is probably better than the result for the Coventry shows, with Queally taking it easy on him once he knew they were beaten.

Compton ran an impressive maiden FTO and although the form of that race has since been franked, it was only a class 5 race so there’s an element of the unknown and he does lack experience despite the plum draw.  He could be anything!

Sixx is patently the stables second string despite the booking of Kieren Fallon but it’s usually worth taking a closer look when Hannon runs two in the same race (particularly when the apparent second string has a decent jockey booking).  He came home last of six (by 29L) on his penultimate outing over this same distance, faring much better LTO which would suggest he needs at least 7f.  I wonder if Fallon might make the most of his proven stamina and take him to the front to dictate the pace – a move which he's a bit good at lately – not least yesterday in Dusseldorf!

I have this between North Star Boy and Rebellious Guest.  I’ll take a chance that the stable will rediscover it’s form with Rebellious Guest and perhaps a small and very speculative each way on Sixx because it's a Monday and who the hell knows what will happen in Monday racing - just look at the 14:45 at Wolves!

Rebellious Guest 9/2 (win) 1^st

Sixx 20/1 (ew) WD (Under vets advice)