And so you're back, a revamped workplace. ARC just woke up to memories of how you looked in steeples.
And so they tested it with some joke, changes made by Charles Rees. Until we're good to go this Sunday, Windsor is back with bonhomie.
Discontent finished, let's go on with the worst business of finding five horses with great interest on the card, and the reasons for that.
Helnwein
12.45 Fitzdares Royal Windsor Novices' Limited Handicap Chase
Alan King, who produced three winners on the old Windsor jumps course in his earliest days as a trainer, is refueling his National Champion fire this season based on an increase across all meaningful metrics , with the strike rate rising to 18% (highest since 2018/19) and the run-to-form ratio of 63% the fifth best in the yard No Brit so far in this campaign.
One of Barbury Castle's brightest sparks, Helnwein ended last season by beating Be Aware in the valuable Novices' Final at Sandown and made a superb start optimistic on the fences of Warwick when it was clear (in a quick time) with the appropriate Telepathique and flight. , which later ranked second in the Recorded category. It's hard to see the handicap being raised just 1lb for that, generous to say the least, and Helnwein has a lot more progress in it, from the family of 1996 Champion Chaser Klairon Davis.
Tanganyika
1.55 Fitzdares Thames Handicap Chase
The last time there was a jumper race at Windsor – 16 December 2005 – Tony Blair was Prime Minister, the outgoing BHB Chairman, Peter Savill announced that increasing the list of games (to 1500 meetings) was the t -way forward, Jordan and Peter Andre had just gotten married. , and Venetia Williams had a winner on the card with Jolly Boy, who was completing an 18-day five-timer under Sam Thomas. At least Venetia is still going strong!
Tanganyika hardly looked natural on his debut over fences but the lights were low at both ends of the race, early when he was a novice and from the last third when he tired, and meanwhile he looked appropriately athletic and confident, all. while they rode less aggressively than usual to compensate. Charlie Deutsch is back on board at Windsor for what looks 0-130 easier than Bangor, landing Jaguar with next-time winners in second and fourth, and Tanganyika now back on the road his best of 3m, in a similar race. conquest
Little Soiree
2.30 Fitzdares Windsor Castle with Mares Hurdle
Which three-time Grade 1 winner was the only horse to ever run at the Windsor jumps for Willie Mullins? The answer to that inconceivable question is Rule Supreme, who was a close third to Baracouda and Crystal D'Ainay in the 2004 Long Drive that was moved. Little Soiree was strange when second in her two starts to Willie Mullins, and she is still a two-year-old maiden, two trainers and seven starts, but there are reasons to class her as a lively long shot for a hurdle. of the mares. a barrier
Firstly, it's her first handbook, a much better expression for her, especially compared to her Newbury reappearance in Listed Company, where she cruised and jumped smoothly until she inevitably dropped out of the last third and saved a tough race afterwards. . And then there's her British debut in March, in a starter at Kempton, where she was named third (to the Wyenot at 129) before crashing out at the finally, a flash of form that makes her mark of 105 appear attractive. Finally, Chris Gordon is at 27% (3/11) in December, compared to 10% for the previous two months combined, representing a stable that has well and truly turned a corner.
Duhallow Tommy
3.05 Fitzdares Telephone Handicap Access Bet
The hidden Hasthing, the return of Reilly and a displaced Zertakt make this a headache of a cliffhanger, but there is more reason to seek solace in the strong Duhallow Tommy, who is still looking up for himself. . Unfortunately, he has fared better in his six starts over fences, winning his first three and running better still when second to Knockrath Gaul in in Newbury in March.
Although third best had returned, the pair he was up against in Fontwell – Lord Of Cheshire and Jupiter Du Gite – were both rated in the mid-120s, so they were over qualified for this, and he measured up to them for 95% of the race. Yes, one of the darker horses may be too hot to handle, and the market will be sensitive to that, but Duhallow Tommy is both a strong traveler and a fluent jumper, a useful asset if e Windsor the rhythm prize track. we think it will.
Loverdose
3.40 Fitzdares Windsor Handicap Hurdle
Given that the last big race on the last big day of jumps racing at Windsor in 2005 was won by The Listener, in the Grade 2 Novices' Pursuit for Robert Alner, it would be fitting and parallel to the be his son-in-law. Robert Walford got on the scoresheet in the brilliant opening – and he could with Loverdose.
A rapid riser, Loverdose won his first two hands, and would have been three at Chepstow last month but for a stoppage error at the second last, still making beating 15 of his 16 rivals after rallying late. He's up another 7lb to a mark of 98, but that needn't stop Loverdose with the way he held up at Chepstow, and it's ongoing praise that his half-brother was second place in Galway Hurdle and Melbourne Cup (eg: of course, was trained by Willie Mullins).
Watch Windsor this Sunday 15th December, live on Sky Sports Racing
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