THE JAD FACTOR is fancied to build on a first career win at Newcastle last month by beating eight rivals for the Ladies Day Dress Spectacular Handicap Hurdle (2.25) at Kelso.
After podium efforts at Ayr and Wetherby in January, Mike Smith’s son of Arcadio went off at 9-1 for a 15-runner novices’ handicap hurdle over two and a half miles at Gosforth on his latest start. And he posted a personal best with a two-and-a-half-length supremacy from Get With It.
The handicapper has reacted with a 4lb rise in the weights but there is more to come from promising claimer William Shanahan’s mount, who is expect to cope with the additional two furlongs to go in again.
At Redcar, ROMANTIC THOUGHT is worth backing at big odds for the Racing TV Straight Mile Handicap (2.40).
The key to the top weight’s chance is the prevailing ground on Teesside - Grant Tuer’s three-year-old landed a novice stakes at Catterick Bridge last October on his only previous try on soft ground.
Romantic Thought has slipped down to a British Horseracing Authority mark of 62 as a result of five defeats on the all-weather since that win, so is weighted to go well.
Monday tips
REDCAR
1.00 PRIMROSE RIDGE
1.30 ASMUND
2.05 PALLAS LORD
2.40 ROMANTIC THOUGHT (NB)
3.15 DELGREY BOY
3.50 ZAIN NIGHTS
4.20 PUNTASTIC
4.53 AL QAASIM
WINDSOR
1.40 SIENNA BONNIE
2.15 KAASIB
2.50 MANY A STAR
3.25 CARP KID
4.00 BALGOWAN
4.30 NEWTON JACK
5.00 DOURADO
5.30 THUNDER QUEEN
KELSO
1.50 DANNY BOY
2.25 THE JAD FACTOR (NAP)
3.00 MAH MATE BOB
3.35 BAVINGTON BOB
4.10 SAINT ARVANS
4.45 TAKETHEPUNISHMENT
5.15 SPECTACULAR GENIUS
