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Joel Pattison
August 14, 2023

JPRacing - Minimal fancies

Today’s newsletter isn’t going to be a long one unfortunately, as I’ve scoured the cards multiple times and just can’t get a good enough shortlist of fancies to pack this out this morning.

Of course, that’s means that the racing is pretty shit. There’s two all-weather cards at Wolverhampton and Kempton, evening racing at Windsor and Hamilton and Irish Jumps at Ballinrobe.

Headlines

The Ladies wiped the floor with Europe, Rest of the world and then UK and Ireland to win the Shergar Cup at Ascot on Saturday. Hollie Doyle, who won the leading rider award, and Saffie Osborne ride two winners each, while Hayley Turner did nothing. 25,000 people were also in attendance, the largest crowd since 2018.

Inspiral romped home very nicely indeed in the Prix Jacques le Marios under Frankie Dettori. It was an eighth victory for the Italian and a fourth in a row for him and team Gosden combined. She could hit back up against Paddington after her disappointing Goodwood showing.

🌟 Back to her best! 🌟
INSPIRAL (Frankel) races clear under @FrankieDettori to land back-to-back renewals of the Group 1 Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois for John & @tha@thadygosden🔴⚪️🔵
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— Cheveley Park Stud (@CPStudOfficial)
2:38 PM • Aug 13, 2023

Aidan O’Brien’s 2YO’s City of Troy and Ylang Ylang are being prepped for Group 1 tasks, with the former heading to the Vincent O’Brien at the Curragh and the latter headed for the Moyglare.

Dettori has picked up the ride of Shadwell’s Juddmonte charge Mostahdaf thanks for Jim Crowley’s suspension.

King of Steel’s drop back in trip to 10f is on. He has options in the Juddmonte and the Irish Champions Stakes before potentially gunning for the Champion Stakes back at Ascot.

Unless, a former feature of this of course being a Ballydoyle horse, won well in Listed company at the Curragh yesterday and she could be headed for the Yorkshire Oaks.

Unless relishes the step up in trip in the Listed Michael John Kennedy Memorial Stakes at @curraghrace as the Justify filly scores under a fine ride from @garyfcarroll for trainer Aidan O'Brien 🏆
— Horse Racing Ireland (@HRIRacing)
3:09 PM • Aug 13, 2023

Ones to watch

The first one to watch is Willie Mullins’ Four Clean Aces. She makes her hurdle debut after two bumper successes for Closutton and is taking to strike under Paul Townend. Sherodan looks like the biggest danger as Peter Fahy’s horse was second in Listed company over obstacles at Galway earlier this month.

The flat racing juvenile on today’s radar is Drama at 5/2 in the 17:30 at Windsor. The James Ferguson horse was fourth of 10 winners on debut at Newbury last month. He has a tongue strap on today and improvement looks on the agenda as William Buick takes the ride. He hold a future G2 entry.

X NAP

🏇 Monday NAP
14:10 Kempton: Jakima (13/8)
Improved when third at Chester from 14/1 last week. Step up to mile should suit, proven to handle poly track and dropped in class. Plenty in her favour and David Probert (22.8%) and Andrew Balding (26.2%) both have best strike rates… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Joel Pattison Racing 🏇 (@JPRacing23)
8:43 AM • Aug 14, 2023

Stable Whispers

A section I’m adding in today due to the lack of everything else, whispers are for Playupskyblues in the 14:45 at Kempton. He showed signs of improvement when sixth of 16 runners at Newbury and is currently 12/1. That’s all I’ve got to say on that really as it’s just something I’ve been sent as opposed to my own pick.

Newsletter exclusive tip

Impressor (18:10 Hamilton) got back to winning ways to make it three wins in last four races when striking here earlier this month. Soft ground will suit and a 4lb rise shouldn’t stop him, but best odds are 5/4.