Scoop6 details & analysis - best of luck everyone! Estimated Win Fund on Saturday: £125,000 Estimated Bonus Fund: £25,000 Leg 1 (1.15 Haydock): Although he ran a lifeless race when last seen out on the level at Pontefract five weeks ago, CALCULATED RISK is expected to figure prominently having won four of the ten races he has contested over timber to date. This is a competitive field however with the chances of MORITO DE BERLAIS, RUN RUCTIONS RUN and DAWALAN also respected. Throw hat trick seeker ON TOUR into the mix and you have a rare old puzzle to solve. Leg 2 (1.30 Ascot): Five and six-year-olds have (equally) shared four of the five renewals to date and hoping that the brief trend continues, Im hoping that SPARTAN ANGEL, GAYE MEMORIES and (possibly) IRON BUTTERFLY can at least figure prominently for us. Leg 3 (2.25 Haydock--Bonus race): David Pipe has secured three of the last four renewals and David is double handed this time around after I napped his 6/1 winner 12 months ago. KATKEAU is preferred to VIEUX LION ROUGE this time around, though not enough to rule the latter named Pond House representative entirely out of the equation. If David is to be denied his fourth win in five years, AUBUSSON ans SYBARITE might prove to be the spoilers in the pack. Leg 4 (3.00 Haydock): Paul Nicholls has saddled five of the last eight winners and having declared his 2012 winner SILVINIACO CONTI again this year, Paul will be hoping to improve the recent trend still further. Along with last years winner CUE CARD, some would argue that horses have to come into this contest in winning form though in both cases, their respective trainers knew that their previous outings this season were required to bring them to fever pitch for this event. Kauto Star proved beyond all reasonable doubt that winners can come back to win this race on a regular basis and I would be a little disappointed of both horses met with defeat on this occasion. Leg 5 (3.15 Ascot): Six of the last seven winners have carried eleven stones or more to victory, with BRICK RED selected from the relevant sector of the weights this time around. That said, two horses under the superior weight barrier are also expected to run well, namely ULCK DU LIN and (particularly) BELLENOS. Leg 6 (3.35 Haydock): All seven winners have carried a minimum weight of 10-13 and my speculative short list against the remaining nine runners consists of MIDNIGHT APPEAL, MISTER MARKER and FORGOTTEN GOLD.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 09:33:19 +0000