Hi all,
Stormy Judge’s win at Naas yesterday enabled the service to end a disappointing weekend on a winning note.
The wet and freezing weather that has played havoc with the jumps racing during January looks set to continue into the first week in February. Tomorrow’s Lingfield card has been abandoned and there doubts as to whether Limerick will race.
We have already lost two of Wednesday’s fixtures (Exeter & Leicester) and there is a doubt about Warwick racing.
I’m not expecting much in the way of selections this week. It looks a quiet one. However, keeping your powder dry may be the best strategy because the weekend promises to be an absolute cracker of top-class racing and plenty of betting opportunities.
We have the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown and you can see the best off the action on ITV. The terrestrial brodcaster will be covering two races on Saturday, in addition to the best of the action from Sandown & Musselburgh.
On Sunday they are covering six races from Leopardstown, including the four Grade 1’s, and four races from the second day of Musselburgh’s Scottish Cheltenham Trial’s Weekend.
Fingers crossed the weather doesn’t let us down at the end of the week because this is the best two day’s racing between now and the start of next month’s Cheltenham Festival.
There are no selections today although I have a couple of tentative fancies from Dundalk that I have put up in my Monday Daily Punt column.
Watch your inboxes ante post selections for the Dublin Racing Festival as I think there will be a few over the coming days.
Cheers
John