More to follow
4:25 Newbury
EMBRACE – 3/4 Pt EW @ 23/2 4 places Bet365, 12/1 3 places, 9/1 & 17/2 4 places generally
Trainer Owen Burrows has a brilliant record at Newbury states and echoes my thoughts – Hopefully the drop in class into handicap company can bring its rewards. Embrace ran a blinder first time up in the Fred Darling where she finished fourth and ran on nicely. We have been quite bold with her and she finished in mid-division in the 1000 Guineas and we tried her in the Sandringham and the ground was a bit quick for her. We upped her in trip at Salisbury the other week and that didn’t really pan out. We are going to drop her into handicap company and she obviously handles plenty of juice in the ground.
Kevin Stott is 3 wins from 5 rides ALL TIME for this shrewd stable in handicaps so hopefully everything is in place for a big run and passed over in favour of old friend Hodler (will go well but prefer if Sexton was riding?)