Exeter 2.00
Midnight Request / Sartorial Elegance - both 1/2 point each way
This looks like a race where the least weak will win. FOR CARMEL is a horse waiting to win but may not be
as good back in this discipline, clear "win saver" material but a few are too well handicapped to ignore here. Roberts Star is best
right handed but the Going is a niggle, may want a few more drying days. MIDNIGHT REQUEST has won hurdle races at Towcester
off a mark of 109 and off 115 here, clearly likes tough right handed tracks and off 120 with a 7lbs claim, looks bang on the right mark.
BILLY DUTTON is too well handicapped to totally leave out, a glimmer of a return to some form last time for a long way but he
would have to run close to his best older form off 117; one of his best runs being off 119 here back in 2014. The Tizzards may
be just having a day out with Zanstra and SARTORIAL ELEGANCE but SE could be on a very nice mark; has had a run since
a wind op and the booking of Tom Scudamore adds a fair degree of confidence.