Thursday 5th September

rossom

Feel bad starting a thread putting up a horse this bad! Hope she wins now

8.10 Kempton

Our Golden Girl 20/1

I'm having a small dabble on Our Golden Girl in what looks an incredibly weak contest tonight. She's been very poor on her last 4 starts on the turf but returns to the AW upped to a staying trip of 1m3f on this surface for the first time and given that she clearly seems much better on an artificial surface I'm hoping of a decent showing with first time blinkers enlisted. Prior to her poor turf showings, she had run well over 7f at Kempton twice back in May off 3lb higher marks of 56 and I also thought she was a filly who would appreciate a trip. In this very poor contest, she gets a lovely 8lb weight for age allowance being a 3 year old and this bottom weight also gets the assistance of the excellent Robert Tart who takes a further 5lb off and get her down to a lovely racing weight of 8-6. Shaun Lycett is not a prolific trainer of winners and it was back in March that he had his last flat success but he did have a hurdle scorer not too long back and his winners come at intermittent levels. Stall 9 isn't a great help and there are definitely doubts surrounding her but this is about as poor a race as you are likely to find and I'm hoping the application of first time blinkers, the return to the AW over a staying trip and a low weight can hopefully see her run a nice race - although there is a strong chance she finishes out with the washing.

rossom

Ran well enough but she's not a horse I'll ever back again if she can't win at this level!