Wetherby 3.50

By UK Flat / AW (Northern)

NORTHERN - Wetherby 3.50 Handicap Hurdle - Class 5 - 3 miles - 13 run - Good to Soft (few showers)
 
Fame And Concrete for Jonjo is favourite but was beaten a fair way when finishing 3rd on handicap debut and has over 12 stones to carry so one I'm happy to take on at the price. Jet Legs for Martin Todhunter has form figures ao 3-2-2 and is in solid form but at less than 4/1 doesn't really appeal as anything but Forecast / TRicast material. I lookedlong and hard at Shot Boli for the Pipe team who hammered home a 3 timer off marks of 91-95-98 late in 2022 and who has finished 4th and 2nd since and runs off 103 with a 3 pound Claimer here, and also Bridge Road who is upped in trip and who has suggested that may eek out some improvement for Jenny Candlish. I'd see those pair as big dangers but just fancied a pair a little more.
 
KADEX who had French form at 2 miles went up a gear in terms of form over this trip at Doncaster last time and if running like that again on a Track with a very similar configuration here would be tough to beat. YOU SOME BOY for Rebecca Menzies has disappointed of late but a return to decent ground should see a return to the sort of form that saw it win off marks of 82, 90 and 94 including over course and Distance and I don;t think a  mark of 100 is beyond it back away from that horrible "dead ground" we've seen a lot of in 2023.
 
One other to flag up tracker is PERFECT MAN for Micky Hammond, its upped in trip to this 3 miles but if you look back far enough it was a regular at this trip earlier in its career for previous Yard and on various bits of old form would be very interesting at big odds for those who like an extra shilling on the Tracker horses.
 
TIPS - (1) Kadex / (2) You Some Boy