FREE: Belmont Selections Wednesday 4th January

3 years ago - Sportingbase

7 races on a twilight program at Belmont this week. Very warm day forecast with a top of 36 degrees, SE 15-25kmph through the afternoon and the rail goes out to the 12m position.

Race 1 – 3:30PM FREE ENTRY TO BELMONT PARK HANDICAP (1200 METRES)

4. War Hymn – 1. Hammarmill – 2. Extra Secret – 5. Lucky Sue

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Race 2 – 4:00PM TABTOUCH BETTER YOUR BET HANDICAP (1200 METRES)

1. Lieutenant Dunbar – 7. Valsassina – 5. Devil’s Queen – 3. No Peer

Lieutenant Dunbar

Thought Lieutenant Dunbar was arguably the run of the meeting the last time we saw him at the races. Had to do a mountain of work to get to the top after being posted deep early on a very genuine tempo and really went down fighting, beaten only 1.5L at the finish by a potential Saturday horse in Costazita. Bit of speed drawn underneath here from 6 in the small field but confident Kesh should lob him in the first 3 in running and if he is able to fire him out and get him across to lead, suspect he will be awfully hard to run down.

1.5 Units WIN

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Race 3 – 4:30PM OWN THE DREAM 2023 COMING SOON HANDICAP (1000 METRES)

7. Work In Progress – 6. Beach West – 2. Brighid – 1. Wuhan Warrior

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Race 4 – 5:09PM MORLEY GROWERS MARKET HANDICAP (1650 METRES)

7. Without Reg – 3. Mahaleo – 2. Birdieagle – 4. Wise Counsel

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Race 5 -5:34PM BYRON BAY PREMIUM LAGER MAIDEN (1400 METRES)

13. Albright – 2. Rocket Lad – 11. Zaza Rock – 6. Raging Beauty

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Race 6 – 6:18PM VALE – DARWIN MOSES HANDICAP (1400 METRES)

4. Gage Roads – 3. Rolled Gold – 2. Fries With That – 1. Fear The Wind

Race 7 – 6:55PM AMELIA PARK HANDICAP (1200 METRES)

2. Magic To Exceed – 1. Forever Autumn – 7. Buster’s Force – 4. Guard The Safe

Magic To Exceed

Terrific placement by the camp here back into a midweek CL3. Been racing predominately in much higher grade/stronger races than this, two starts ago beaten under 2L The Velvet Queen in a 72+ and although 9th of 10 last start in a 66+, beaten only 3.5L Hardly Ever. Loves Belmont with terrific track/distance stats to boot with a 60+ victory here over Multinational to his name, you don’t often read about that sort of form for a midweek CL3. Kesh should lob him in a lovely spot close enough to the box-seat from the draw and thought he posed the best bet of quite a thin midweek card.

2 Units WIN