VAAL THURSDAY 16 MAY 2024

Race 1: Gold Agent
P F Matchett / S Valjalo

Race 2: Rodeo Drive
S G Tarry / C Zackey

Race 6: Vesuvio
T Zackey / G Lerena

Race 7 Dark Silver
A G Laird / D De Gouveia

Rodeo Drive / Wolf Mountain double to pay for Dave's lunch 🍽️

Plus Big EVS at York to pay for supper 😄

Thankfully a day of racing without the Fourie factor skewing betting odds .... Seventeen Again finding plenty support against a very short priced favorite with a work rider up one from one. 

First four favorites look hard to oppose imo... Valieva has good form but on LBH Rodeo Drive looks to have run a blinder last time out and a repeat of that should see her too good for aforementioned.

Card of 2 halves imo - first race the hottie only has the first-timer (finding market support) to worry about; in the 2nd I do think Valieva could make the favorite run (not a lot between them on a line through Take Your Place); in  the 3rd the hottie probably has to fall over to lose.

From the 4th it looks more competitive; Smashing is very capable imo and tries blinkers again (oops got confused there ), while Green Lightning is finding market support and put up a good debut starting at 33/1; in the 5th, Munchkin imo much too short in the betting (In the Ether best over 1000 and at the odds look good value while some of the others would not win out of turn); in the last 3 races many need to be considered imo.

Enjoy    

GOLD AGENT sw with SOLAMENTE
DESERT CLOUD
WOLF MOUNTAIN
SMASHING places you can get 12/10 fixed 5 places at HW
 

Rider made a big difference race one?

I dont know how any self respecting punter can bet with Hollywood. Every price, on almost every runner is at least a point or more shorter than the odds being offered by the other bookmakers. Usually this would occur on the weekends or on busy race days but now it is the every day norm.
You would think with so much competition they would try & be competitive but not so. Punters cannot win by taking these odds. 

WSB have some issues, sometimes takes too long to credit winning bets but overall they offer decent & fair odds.