15:05
Market Rasen
Odds correct as of 11:56am 14th Oct
Stats can be useful tools when trying to pick out winners and there’s a trainer to follow at Market Rasen on Tuesday with that in mind. Trainer Stuart Edmunds has a 60 per cent strike-rate at the track so far this season and is set to have one runner on Tuesday. Check out our free tips page for daily content across British and Irish racing.
Bluegrass is an impeccably bred horse, but you wouldn’t expect to him to end up being a two-mile hurdler. This ex-Ballydoyle inmate is out of a Group 1-winning sprinter and by the late great Galileo, so with that in mind, he was a little disappointing on the Flat.
He put in some reasonable efforts as a juvenile hurdler despite failing to get off the mark but managed to do so at Fakenham in March. Always travelling well that day, he pulled clear to win by seven lengths despite making a mistake at the last.
Things didn’t go to plan upon his return to handicaps at Ayr next time but the handicapper has dropped him 1lb since and this race looks significantly easier. One would imagine a horse with his engine can win off 110 and this looks like a good opportunity to prove it.
Court In The Act and last time out winner Bannister perhaps offer the biggest threat and the former is particularly unexposed on handicap debut.
Edmunds is winless from 10 runners in the last fortnight but it only takes one winner to get back on track and his record at the track this season suggests Bluegrass isn’t here for a day out. Three of Edmunds’ five runners have been successful and this gelding can add to the tally.
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