Equinties - Sefton Saturday

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Last Saturday we landed two big winners in WHITE RHINO 9/2 and THE REAL WHACKER 5/1 to warm us up nicely for the easy punting states side at the Breeders Cup

Saturday is always our day and we have some confident bets today.

Let’s dive in.

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THE TIZZARD CUP

Turn up, win the big one, take trophy home and celebrate around the kitchen table - for the Tizzard’s it was just a normal Friday, but for everyone else it was Haldon Cup Friday.

JPR ONE’s win yesterday made 4 Haldon Cup wins from the last 5 for the Tizzard stable and it clearly meant a lot to Joe:

However much Racing Twitter may scream at the fact that Charlie Deutsch gave DJELO a quiet enough ride in the Haldon Gold Cup, there was no stopping JPR ONE from winning.

Let’s start with this surprisingly big section of racing Twitter who were calling for Deutsch’s head yesterday.

DJELO was getting nudged off the bridle for most of the home straight while Brendan Powell simply sat pretty on Joe Tizzard’s scopey chaser.

Furthermore, Deutsch is a master at rallying horses home without the use of the whip. DJELO rallied to the cause after the last, and that was when he picked up the stick, but Powell never used his stick and won easily. JPR ONE won. Move on.

Actually, let’s not. JPR ONE looked like the Grade 1 horse that Tizzard had promised yesterday as he jumped well and quickened away like a very nice one. Obviously, Tackling the Irish in Grade 1s is a different universe, but the Tingle Creek on home turf may look like a good starting point to see if he can make it in the big leagues.

It could be a place that he meets EL FABIOLO, though you’d almost say it would be a certainty to see him take on JONBON in what could be quite an intriguing clash.

As for the rest, DJELO did actually put in a nice run and will come on for the outing, while the same could be said for SANS BRUIT who jumped like his usual self and lacked fitness when it mattered.

WALKOVER

We’ve had walkovers before, and we will unfortunately have walkovers to come, but yesterday’s walkover success for CAPTAIN TEAGUE in a £40,000 novice chase hwas a bit of a joke and such a shame for Exeter and their race sponsors.

We get that the ground isn’t it’s usual (safe?) bottomless ground we’d normally experience, and that horses such as DEAFENING SILENCE are proper ‘soft ground’ horse, it wasn’t like it was rattling and unsafe…right?

And this isn’t to have a pop at the trainers who did non-runner their horses yesterday, this is more highlighting the state of jumps racing atm as even if they did line up, three or four runners for such a race is a joke.

In Ireland, hurdlers who go over fences have to run in beginners chases to get a new chase mark, so their beginners chases get good field sizes. Over here, horses can run in novice handicap chases on their first start over the bigger obstacles off their hurdles mark.

As such, this should really be changed.

Horses who had tough (or cheating) season over hurdles can rock up to a novice handicap chase, rather than a standard novice chase, and make light work of their mark.

This doesn’t benefit anyone. Unexperienced punters get put away because a horse has improved from seemingly nowhere, the standard novice chases (like the one at Exeter yesterday) lose potential runners.

This is just one thing that could be changed to the British novice chasing division to help it going forward which would ultimately stop embarrassments like yesterday from occurring.

Will anything change? That is not a given!

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