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Thebes in line for three-timer
TEN-TO-FOLLOW pick Thebes
(3.50) gets straight down to
business at Kempton where
he's confidently expected to
complete a quick-fire threetimer,
writes COLIN WOODS
(JANUS).
Thebes has only just started to
repay his mega 270,000gns
price tag, but successive victories
at Southwell and Wolverhampton
show he's going
about it the right way.
Both of those triumphs were
achieved in facile fashion, each
time gunning out of the stalls
and leaving his hapless rivals
for dead in the home straight.
Given Mark Johnston's colt has
only incurred a 6lbs penalty, it
seems inconceivable that the
extra weight will stop him nailing
the six-furlong Play
Roulette Handicap.
In the preceding Ian McClelland
Memoral Handicap,
Cordell (3.15) is going to take
some pegging back after a fantastic
run in better company at
the track last Saturday.
Cordell took part in a warm
Conditions contest that
evening, yet still managed to
finish a close-up third behind
Campanologist, who also features
in the ten-to-follow list.
There's absolutely nothing of
the calibre of the last-named
individual in today's line-up,
paving the way for the selection
to kick his rivals into
touch.
It's not often a Flat-bred horse
gets to age four with only three
runs to his name, however
Geoff Wragg's The Carlton
Cannes (5.35) is an exception to
the rule.
Wragg's decision to persevere
with the injury-prone son of
Grand Lodge paid off when
connections banked a good few
quid at Lingfield last time out.
Supported in the market to 11-4
favourite, Steve Drowne's
mount came from out of the
clouds to cut down the leaders
at the furlong pole.
With so few miles on the clock
there's plenty more to come
from The Carlton Cannes, who
seems sure to play a leading
role in the nightcap.
8:56am Saturday 22nd March 2008
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