IT’S two-year-old day at Newmarket on Wednesday, but the best heat on the card is the fillies handicap.
The only race not for juveniles, it sees seven set to go to post for the £20k pot.
The likely market leader is the only non three-year-old, Black Lotus, from the Chris Wall team.
While she is definitely ahead of her mark, she drops back to a mile here and her record on soft ground doesn’t match up to that when on a decent surface.
With those factors against her, plus having to give away weight to the field, she can be taken on and the one that looks the value is Andrew Balding’s BE MORE.
Balding is in fine fettle and this mud-lover swept to the front in style at Chester like a well-handicapped filly two starts ago.
4.10 Newmarket – Be More (Bet now)
Both of her career wins have come on soft ground and this lightly-raced daughter of Sharmadal shaped like a filly much better than her current mark of 83 at Chester. Not many horses come off the gallop there as powerfully as she did.
Given the likely conditions, she represents a cracking bet on Wednesday afternoon.
The big threat in the race has to be Lady Bowthorpe who was a respectable second on handicap debut at Sandown last time out.
She’s been upped 3lbs for that, but it was a strong race and given this will be only her fifth start, you’d think there was a bit more to come still at the very least.
The other rival that cannot be ignored is the Rod Millman-trained Sufficient who comes here off the back of a win.
She is up to a mark of 87 now though, and that may just begin to catch up with her in a field of unexposed fillies. That’s not to say there won’t be more to come from her down the line.
