Top Tipster Daryl Carter is in fine form and gives his two selections for Wednesday
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Posted: 5:00pm November 8th
12.50 Bangor – Knight In Dubai (1pt win – 5/1 Bet365 + LiveScore, 9/2 generally)
This is a deeper race than the one Yggdrasil won last term, and I am happy to be against Tile Tapper, who is hard to win with and has never scored when fresh. This is a drop back in grade for KNIGHT IN DUBAI, who has won fresh at this venue and has seen both of his wins under rules come when returning from a break. He may well have won in 2018 when travelling strongly in a Novice Chase at Cheltenham before coming down on the back of a break also, which would suggest fresh may be the time to catch him. On his day, he is a very useful horse, and it’s interesting connections have persisted with him. He is lightly raced, likely due to his niggly issues, but he should be fit and well to run a big race today. If he can put it all together, he is clear by a country mile on the speed figures in this contest, and the market has underestimated that. Anything 4/1 or bigger looks like a good bet.
4.05 Bangor – Saint Palais (1.5pt win – 2/1 Bet365, 15/8 generally)
SAINT PALAIS makes appeal here, returned to the smaller obstacles and back into Novice company. He is rated 153 over fences (145 over smaller ones, but that’s only because the handicapper hiked it to stop them running in handicaps), and while he was only rated 118 over hurdles, he never got the opportunity to fulfil the promise before tackling fences. He had four hurdle runs over 2m, and 2m4f and the form he showed in defeat is stronger than any of these have achieved in this sphere. He was also running over the wrong trip and has proven himself to be a very useful staying in the chase division. He is 3-4 on soft ground and has won fresh previously, and has a very lightly raced profile. David Bass comes here for just this one ride and has finished first and second from three rides for the trainer. Saint Palais is only a five-year-old and could have stacks of improvement to come this term, and he has finished in the first three on eight of his ten career starts. Maximilian didn’t achieve a great deal at Carlisle and its hard to get a handle on the time figure with the ground changing to soft after the race and the times getting considerably slower throughout the day. Still, even on that, he would have at least ten to 15 pounds to find with some of these. Dr Kananga turns to hurdles for the first time but is slow, and this could be a prep run for a national-type contest. Keep Wondering, and Broadway Boy need to improve significantly on their achievements – the latter makes more appeal. Fortescue is a sizeable horse and has a high-head carriage. Fences brought out the improvement in him, with hurdles seemingly getting in the way, and he left this sphere rated just 108. Merveillo is the most interesting runner outside of the selection – rated 93 on the flat. He could prove to be anything but is almost certainly best watched on this first outing over hurdles.
Daryl Carter’s Best Bets
12.50 Bangor – Knight In Dubai (1pt win – 5/1 Bet365 + LiveScore, 9/2 generally)
4.05 Bangor – Saint Palais (1.5pt win – 2/1 Bet365, 15/8 generally)