Horse Racing Betting: Lingfield Park September 5th 2024 Betting Tips & Prediction
4 September, 2024
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Lingfield Park hosts afternoon flat racing this Thursday 5th September. Eight races await getting underway…
Saturday 12th Jan Horse Racing Betting Tips & Predictions
It’s time for the Saturday 12th Jan horse racing betting tips and predictions. Another busy weekend of British and Irish horse racing and another round of fixtures we aim to help you make a profit from. Saturday’s schedule is headlined by the action at Warwick where a seven-race card goes on the turf, taking backers from the opener at 12.40pm through to 4.05pm when an NH Flat Race brings the curtain down.
As ever, there’s plenty of value to be had with odds-makers offering quotes in both the ante-post markets and on the day. If you are keen on a particular selection, it’s always worth jumping the queue and getting your money down early and often you’ll find a better price available the earlier you get involved before the money of casual backers begins to pile on the favourites.
Warwick’s card is headlined by the Grade 2 Ballymore Leamington Novices’ Hurdle while the Grade 3 Classic Handicap Chase acts as a fine back-up. Our team of horse racing experts have skipped through the runners and riders, returning with their take on the current betting and what has caught their eye when targeting a value play.
Ballymore Leamington Novices’ Hurdle
Run over two miles and five furlongs, this is a fairly new race to the schedule with the first running taking place in 2002 when won by Classified for Tony McCoy and Martin Pipe. In more recent outings we’ve seen a mixed bag of results, Mr Whipped claiming the prize money under the ride of Nico de Boinville and Nicky Henderson 12 months ago.
There are no obvious trends to be taken from this contest; however, bookmakers have had no trouble pinning their colours to the mast and fly up support for ante-post favourite Birchdale. The five-year-old gelding, owned by JP McManus was entrusted to the capable hands of decorated trainer Nicky Henderson and despite lacking plenty in experience the bay got off to the perfect start when scoring at this track on debut midway through December.
Handlers picked out a Maiden Hurdle over track and trip to launch this horse and it proved to be a shrewd move with the gamble paying off; Birchdale won off an SP 9/4 favourite, coming home an eye-catching four lengths ahead of stablemate Clarendon Street. Another touch for the yard and punters who read the race properly and had their money down were cheering all the way to the bank.
This represents a step up in class, and then some, with some lively opponents in the mix; however, backers can take heart from the fact a wise bunch of connections wouldn’t risk him unless they were confident he was going to go extremely close to landing two on the bounce. We wouldn’t be in a rush to put anyone off having a bet on him, for that reason, but his experience and price go down as negatives and we’ll happily look elsewhere for our interest.
