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St Ledger Festival Wednesday 7th September

St Ledger winner Frankie with Sir Michael Stoute
 It's St Ledger week and what a great few days in prospect, I'm very much looking forward to terrific cards throughout the next few days with championship jockey hopefuls Paul Hanagan and Kieran Fallon determined to pick up as many winners possible in order to be crowned champion jockey this season. Furthermore the anticipation to see the oldest classic in the world this Saturday gets the mouth watering with the line up. I'll be tipping Blue Bunting to go and do it for Goldolphin Saturday but please keep checking the blogg for tips throughout the week. Leave a comment if you wish...

OK, here are my tips foe Wednesday 7th September, Good Luck...

2.00 7f Nursery

Twelve youngsters go to post here in what is a good quality nursery without question. The trainers to take note of at Doncaster is without question three trainers that have horses in with chances those include Hannon, Johnson and Gosden. So out of those three the winner here points to Richard Hannons horses MAGIC CITY and WOLFGANG the latter at an each way price. I'll start with MAGIC CITY this horse to date has underachieved somewhat, the horse has been placed in a higher sphere than most of these and in doing so has found quite a few a little better. However the pedigree suggests that an extra furlong could be the making of this horse stepping it up in distance, the ground wont be an issue as long as Richard Hughes doesn't try to be too clever a good run is expected. WOLFGANG has been a consistent type, I believe the step up to the mile last time out didn't suit this colt and the 7f trip will suit much better. Once again a better horse than most of these on its form and I believe it could quite easily be a 1,2 for the Hannon's tomorrow.

2.35 6f Stakes Race

Just the five in this heat but still a very competitive race. All things considered the top three in the betting wont be separated by much in this race. However EUREKA the Hannon horse yet again is the way to go here I was very impressed by its maiden and its win over the 6f at Salisbury in June was a scintillating performance. Hannon has progressively introduced this horse to better class races and was far from disgraced in its last teo starts particularly in the Super Sprint at Newbury. A guaranteed stayer over the six, will get the trip and another win for Hannon.

3.10 Scarborough Stakes 5f

An even better sprint race here in which only three favourites have won since 1994 quite a stat that, its also important to add that three year old's have done particularly badly throughout the history of this race. Its a tricky race and going against my previous trends I've mentioned because I think DINKUM DIAMOND a three year old has a cracking chance and backable this evening at around 6/1. This horse is a quality sprinter and has a bit of class about him the trainer Henry Candy hasnt had the greatest of seasons but has also spoken very positively about this colt. The horse has a rating of 106 but I believe that will go up, the strong form line through Margot Did who ran a blinder to win the Nunthorpe at York last week losing by around five lengths is still a positive for me but more importantly its last run to finish third behind Duchess Dora and Tangerine Trees the former is running again but I believe the ground will suit DINKUM DIAMOND and this class animal can reverse that form.

Only those three for me tomorrow, Good Luck if your having a bet!

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