TONY CALVIN: TODAY’s stats and info – and NRs

Odds Against becomes No Offers

I’m odds-against doing a written column for Monday, but I’ll commit to doing the stats/info section at the very least (it is done – see below – and I’ll update it after Sunday’s racing).

Kempton all-weather racing, a five-runner jobber at Plumpton and Fairyhouse fields full of horses (and some trainers, let’s be honest), I am not familiar with is not the recipe for profit…..

But I may relent and do something if I see anything of betting note.

Unlikely though – stick to what you know.

That’s good advice I think and, after another look at the races/prices this morning, I am going to stick to it.

I hear there is a big week of racing ahead….

COURSE DETAILS

FAIRYHOUSE

6 April 8.00am  – Following a dry 24hrs, Fairyhouse is now yielding to soft. Fresh ground both tracks. Dry day

Yr.no forecast (8.12am, Monday): Dry

PLUMPTON

Whole course has been vertidrained since our last fixture

Chase: Good (Going Stick 6.9 on Monday 6.45am)

Hurdle: Good (Good to Soft in places) (Going Stick 6.3 on Monday 6.45am)

Rails: Shared bends in use. Rail to be moved out on the bends after racing on Sunday by approx 3yds. Both bends are +10yds on the chase course and hurdle course as advertised.

• 2:35pm:Race distance is now +110y to 2m 1f 109y
• 4:25pm:Race distance is now +165y to 3m 5f 49y

Monday morning course update: 0.5mm rain Saturday morning, 3.5mm on Friday morning. Light grass frost this morning, forecast for today is dry and sunny with a light breeze. Max temp 13C

Watering: 36-42mm of irrigation applied in the last 10 days. Another 3mm of irrigation being applied since racing yesterday, will finish by 9.30am today.

 Yr.no forecast (8.12am, Monday): Dry

KEMPTON

GOING: Standard to slow

BALLOTED OUT (get your money back on these)

5.00pm Fairyhouse: The Lovely Man, Folly Master, Uhavemeinstitches, Built By Ballymore,Fishery Lane, Newton Tornado, Promontory, Rockys Howya

FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS

PACE MAPS (manually assessed) and NRs

2.35pm Plumpton: Scorcese (lead looks his if they want it), Matterhorn?, Secret Des Dieux?

2.55pm Kempton: Devil’s Advocate, Military Academy, Thunder Run

3.15pm Fairyhouse (only 15 go now, each way punters): Timeless Treaty, Eagles Reign, Kovanis, Yeshil, , Slane Hill, El Champo – Meet And Greet , Jony R, Fiveonefive, Healys Pub Catch The Beast and Arch Empire are NRs

3.30pm Kempton: Top Team, Marnier, Youthful King?

3.50pm Fairyhouse: Glen Kiln, Slade Steel (prom)

4.05pm Kempton: Musical Angel, Gogo Yubari?

4.20pm Fairyhouse: Classic Getaway, Energumene, Saint Sam, Blood Destiny?, Down Memory Lane?

4.40pm Kempton: Champagne Powder, Helm Rock?, Valentine Boy  – Ted Le Saux is a NR (lame)

5pm Fairyhouse: Joystick (prom), The Jukebox Kid, Soldier In Milan, Monbeg Genius (prom), Velvet Elvis (prom), Karia Des Blaises?, Kurasso Blue, The Enabler

5.15pm Kempton: Broadway Act, Lunario, City Of God

TRAINERFORM (manually assessed) – going into Monday’s racing, obviously

Good: Jonathan Sweeney (flying along from a small sample after another 8-1 winner on Sunday), Alan King, Gary and Josh Moore, Neil Mulholland, John and Thady Gosden (good/fair), Andrew Balding, Nicky Henderson (winner on Sunday), Michael Herrington (good/fair), Daniel and Claire Kubler, John Butler (another winner on Sunday – going really well), Willie Mullins (22-1 and 33-1 1-2 on  Saturday – and banging them in on Sunday now, three at my last count from a shitload of runners admittedly, as he is a numbers trainer, after all), Olly Murphy (treble on Saturday), Charles Byrnes, Gavin Cromwell (9-1 and 15-2 winners on Saturday), Paul Nicholls

Fair: James Owen, Karl Burke (fair/good – double on Saturday), Sean Woods (no winners; small sample), Dylan Cunha, Tony Carroll, Richard Hannon (nudging good after another winner on Saturday), Michael Attwater, Stuart Williams, Gordon Elliott (80-1 winner on Saturday – and among the winners on Sunday), Henry De Bromhead (28-1 and 9-2 winners on Saturday), Ross O’Sullivan, Cian Collins (33-1 winner on Sunday), Noel Meade (winner on Sunday), Ben Pauling (fair/good), Mark Fahey

Moderate: Eve Johnson Houghton (she was very good on Luck On Sunday, though), P J Rothwell (good second on Sunday), Jonjo and AJ O’Neill (winner and three seconds on Saturday though, so maybe they are coming out of their lull),  John McConnell

Don’t know: Owen Burrows (one winner; two runners), Jane Chapple-Hyam (one winner; four runners), Charlie Pike (one near-miss), Amanda Perrett, James Horton (one winner; three runners), Luke Dace, Simon Dow, Stan Moore, Conrad Allen, Julie Camacho, Oliver Cole, James Evans, Oli Rix, Keiran Burke, Joseph Parr, Chris Dwyer (one winner; three runners), Mark Rimell, David Harry Kelly, Miss M Harding, Oliver McKiernan, H Rogers, Barry Connell, S Crawford, Patrick Foley, Ted Walsh, Edward Cawley (9-2 winner on Sunday),  Emmet Mullins, Colm Murphy (Zanoosh won for him on Sunday), Robert Tyner, E McNamara, Tom Dreaper, J Motherway (one winner; one runner)