Punters can strike it rich with Autumn Wealth
The filly has only competed in maiden company so far but has done little wrong and progresses to the Levy Board Handicap with a leading chance.
A three-year-old daughter of Cadeaux Genereux, she did not make the racecourse until July, finishing runner-up at Kempton when not given a hard time.
Autumn Wealth occupied the same position at Nottingham later that month but opened her account on the soft at Beverley in August.
She hung left all the way down the straight there so will be helped by the switch to a left-handed track today and appears to be an unexposed type who can continue on her winning way.
Newmarket trainer David Loder can make a rare raid on Wolverhampton pay off by saddling Captain Johnno to take the Dine In Style At Dunstall Park EBF Median Auction Maiden Stakes.
The Tagula gelding may be one of the Loder stable’s lesser lights but has shown enough ability in three starts on turf to suggest that he can win a race and it is likely to be today if he takes to the new Polytrack surface.
Tried over three different distances, his best effort arguably came over this trip of six furlongs at Ayr last month when he was third of 18 to Ingleton.
At Exeter, the very smart hurdler Sporazene looks virtually unopposable in the Stuart’s Volvo Truck And Bus Beginners’ Chase.
Although there are some interesting contenders in this contest, the grey is held in high regard by Paul Nicholls, whose faith is mirrored by the bookmakers, who make him the current ante-post favourite for the Irish Independent Arkle Trophy next March.
A winner at the Punchestown Festival as a juvenile hurdler, the five-year-old was a leading light in the all-aged timber contests last season, finishing third in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton before tasting Cheltenham glory when running off a decent mark in the Vincent O’Brien County Handicap Hurdle.
The Ditcheat maestro will have Sporazene well schooled for his first effort over the bigger obstacles and although he probably won’t be a working man’s price tomorrow, he can take this on his way to bigger things.
As usual, there is a decent card on offer at the Devon track, and Willie John Daly can score at the second time of asking at the course this autumn in the 3663 Duchy of Cornwall Challenge Cup Beginners’ Chase.
His trainer Philip Hobbs expects him to take high rank in the staying division this season but he found his stable companion, the ex-pointer Out The Black, too good in a race over the distance earlier in the month.
But that form may turn out to be very useful and he could be hard to beat this afternoon.
