Posts By: Simon Double

  • LAST TIME OUT WINNERS SHOULD RUN WELL DESPITE WIDE DRAWS!

    DEAN runs six horses today (two at Nottingham and four at Chelmsford) and it is three last time out winners, Fantastic Flyer (5.45pm Chelmsford), Gregorian Girl (7.25pm Chelmsford) and Nicky Baby (8.30 Chelmsford) who are the ones who make most appeal. The first of these landed a big gamble at Kempton 18 days ago at… Read more »

  • HELLO GIRL NEEDS TO DEFY TRICKY WINDSOR DRAW

    HELLO GIRL, one of two stable runners at Windsor tonight, needs to defy a wide draw at 6pm in a 6f handicap if she’s to get in the mix. The 4yo daughter of Bated Breath is drawn 12 of 15 but she’s not badly treated, having dropped over a stone since her win two years… Read more »

  • STEP UP IN TRIP MAY HELP WELL HANDICAPPED KADRIZZI

    KADRIZZI, one of two stable runners tonight at Wolverhampton, steps up to beyond a mile first the first time ever and if the longer trip suits, this well handicapped 6yo could improve on recent lucklustre efforts. The chestnut son of Hurrican Cat has not won since August 2016 and as a result his handicap has… Read more »

  • “WOODY” THIRD IN BARRIER TRIAL AT LINGFIELD

    “WOODY”, the unnamed Solario Racing two-year-old colt by Garswood went down to Lingfield Park yesterday for a Barrier Trial…and he was third! Dean Ivory always sends his horses for a racecourse gallop or two, usually at Kempton but sometimes at Newmarket, before they race.  However, Lingfield Park now runs Barrier Trials which allow young unraced… Read more »

  • TEMERAIRE HAS FIGHTING CHANCE AT DONNY

    FIGHTING TEMERAIRE goes to Doncaster today for the 2.15, a 7f handicap and the son of Invincible Spirit should go close under Martin Dwyer. He ran well last time out at Nottingham under Franny Norton and now rated 61, he’s two stone lower than when he last won at Newmarket in July 2016. Of course,… Read more »

  • CLOSE TO CALL BETWEEN TROPICS AND EIRENE

    DEAN sets a poser by running both Tropics and Eirene in the same race at Chelmsford this evening, a six-runner Conditions event over six furlongs, due off at 7pm. They are the two in the field with recent runs so will have a fitness advantage of their rivals but they are worse off at the… Read more »

  • HELLO GIRL NEEDS TO DEFY WIDE DRAW

    HELLO GIRL is the stable’s only runner today when lining up for the opener at Windsor (2pm) and the chestnut filly needs to defy the widest draw (16) if she is going to trouble the judge. Fifteen line up for this six furlong handicap and the lightly raced daughter of Bated Breath has lost her way somewhat in… Read more »

  • ACCLAIM AND FLYER DEFY ABSENCE FOR 181/1 DOUBLE!

    STAKE ACCLAIM and FANTASTIC FLYER, off the track for a combined 731 days, both won yesterday to give the stable a fantastic 181/1 double. The former was off the track for the whole of last year and indeed last ran at Doncaster at the last turf meeting in 2017.  He returned yesterday as one of eight… Read more »

  • ARCHDEACON INTERESTING WITH CLAIMER BOOKED

    ARCHDEACON is an interesting runner for the stable which fields four today in that Megan Nicholls, who claims five, has been booked to ride the lightly-raced 3yo in a mile handicap at Kempton (4.35pm) The son of Archipenko has gradually come down the weights from 56 on his handicap debut last July to 49 today… Read more »