Tipster Blogs

Owner Tom Morley looks to have snared a bargain with the £14,000 purchase of MIRACLE WORKS (Wolverhampton, 5.30) from Ed Vaughan’s Newmarket yard judged on his debut performance for new connections at Chelmsford.

INDIAN AFFAIR had a tough draw towards the inside at Wolverhampton on his latest outing and challenged on the ‘dead’ rail, keeping on into a respectable 10-1 fifth. The runner-up went one better at Lingfield on Friday and he can be backed in the Betway Handicap when he returns to Wolverhampton tonight (5.45).

FIRST LINK (Lingfield, 3.00) couldn’t handle a big step up in class at Chelmsford last time but drops back to her comfort zone on Monday and can resume winning ways.

Since the Tote Irish Lincolnshire (4.10) was moved to Naas from the Curragh, both winners have arrived late around the inside from low draws (stalls one and three). That’s obviously a very small sample size but if we look at all big-field handicaps over course and distance in recent years a low-draw bias is evident, with eight of the 15 winners in fields of 14+ coming from stalls one, two, three or four.

SHA LA LA LA LEE was a well backed winner for this column in a mile handicap at Lingfield on March 2nd and Tom Dascombe’s four-year-old can be backed over the same trip and track in the Sun Racing No1 Racing Site Handicap today (3.10).