Selections:
#6 - King Of Naples - $4.80
#3 - Lucky Variety - $4.40
#5 - Star Spirit (ROUGHIE OF THE DAY) - $7.00
#10 - Tashi - $8.00
BEST BET - #6 - King Of Naples
King of Naples surely deserves another look here after making his return to racing as a long priced favourite for John O’Shea two weeks ago at the course where I had him as my best of the day and he looked a good thing, sitting on the speed and working well at the turn in an attempt to belt away at the 200m but his fitness just told late when getting swamped inside the last 75m. He should be a lot better for the run, sticks at the same course and I think the much better quote around ~$5.00 is more than good enough to take here.
THE DANGER - #3 - Lucky Variety
I am always happy to entertain a fresh Kris Lees horse and this particular one has been a monster in his past few runs. He has won or come runner up in each of his last five runs and won three of those dominantly. He’s got one win in two fresh runs so doesn’t take much to get going and the last race he ran in before a 21 week spell was a BM72 at Randwick where he was ever so impressive in winning and blitzing the clock. He’s had a bunch of sharp trials to lead him back into this and should be tough to beat here fresh.
VALUE BET - #5 - Star Spirit (ROUGHIE OF THE DAY)
Star Spirit is another who looks to improve sharply off the back of an awesome first up run where she really got to show her heart, overcoming a suck run when being shuffled back in the run to angle out into clear air very late in the piece and jet home for an unlucky placing where she should have finished much closer. She looks very sharp to improve second up off the back of that and the stable is flying at the moment. If one of the favourites doesn’t show up she will be right there.