Single-race breakdown with model vs market, value edge, confidence, and the reasons Slims Pickins is leaning in or stepping out.
Double Click rates as the value NAP at 43.8% fair chance versus 27.1% market probability (+33.5% EV).
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Double Click rates as the value NAP at 43.8% fair chance versus 27.1% market probability (+33.5% EV).
Mixed form last season; peak efforts included third at Market Rasen (2m2f) on Boxing Day and most recently when runner-up over C&D last month, beaten 6.5l off this mark; not guaranteed to back that up but in the mix if doing so.
Four wins over hurdles (at up to 3m) in 2022 and 2023; missed all of 2024; although yet to match that original level since returning from an absence in October, they have been largely respectable efforts and she's arguably weighted to win, if ready to go after a 124-day break.
Hasn't looked straightforward since finishing runner-up at Wetherby in October, pulling up on debut for this stable and well held back in this sphere at Perth last month; hard to recommend on current evidence.
Four-time winner over hurdles who had looked to be in the grip of the handicapper since wining at Uttoxeter (2m7f, good) in July; however, he's now back on that winning mark and his latest fourth of four at Taunton (3m, good) in a Class 3 was encouraging; respected.
Signed off for Dan Skelton with two wins last summer (about 2m6f); shaped well on stable debut when third at Newcastle in November but pulled up at Chepstow three weeks later, both at about 3m; off 150 days but she's won off similar breaks in the past and not ruled out if back on song.
Proved well suited by the step back up to 3m1f and good ground when keeping on well to score at Ffos Las last month; faces a different question here off 5lb higher but likely to be thereabouts if reproducing the effort.
Very well handicapped on some of his old form for Willie Mullins but, following a layoff, was soundly beaten on his two starts for Venetia Williams (both 3m); probably best watched at present.
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