Hereford racing tip (14:05): Mistral Milly fancied to breeze into frame finish
A view of Hereford racecourse
Planet Sport Bet have picked out another bumper Hereford card to sponsor this week, and this competitive maiden hurdle looks sure to provide some thrills and spills along the way.
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Thirteen runners line up to tackle this testing two-and-a-half-mile trip, and if the bookies have things right, then for a dozen of them their biggest challenge will be keeping in touch with odds-on favourite Aston Martini.
After Nicky Henderson’s four-year-old made a winning start to land a seven-runner bumper at Southwell back in June, she teams up again with Nico De Boinville here and is expected to be equally impressive on her hurdling debut.
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Her most likely threat is likely to come from the Charlie Longsdon-trained Realisation, who also won her bumper debut race just over a year ago, although she was less eye-catching on her first effort over hurdles, finishing a distant fourth of nine at Stratford 19 days ago.
A first-time tongue strap could prove beneficial here, as indeed could the booking of in-form jockey and Planet Sport Bet racing ambassador Harry Cobden, who enjoyed three impressive winners among several other decent outings at Cheltenham’s November meeting at the weekend.
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Nine of the remaining eleven runners are available at 14/1 or greater at the time of writing, so a more realistic each-way option could turn out to be Mistral Milly, who recently left Alan King’s yard to come under the wing of Emma Lavelle.
This four-year-old has shown some promise when three-lengths fourth on her bumper debut at Ascot in February, but was quite simply not at the races when last seen two months later at Fakenham.
A seven-month break and a change of scenery might well have done this filly good, and she has joined a yard that has been producing horses in top shape recently, landing three winners and seven runner-up near misses (plus two-thirds) from their last 19 runners.
Mistral Milly’s reins will be in the dependable hands of Tom Bellamy, who is also in a rich vein of form, steering three of his last eight completed rides into the winner’s enclosure (two of them for Lavelle), with a couple of close-up runner-up spots to boot.
- Suggested bet: Mistral Milly each-way in the 14:05 at Hereford
- Tip advised by TC’s Punts on Tipstrr
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