Wednesday 25th

Peintre Celebre · 25-09-2014 10:24am #1

One I've backed today is the frustrating but talented Burano at Newmarket. He's only had one win from 30 starts and that came back when he was a three year old landing a Listed race at Meydan, and the handicapper has been very reluctant to reduce his mark over the years subsequently, being a high of 106 at one stage but he has always hovered around the 100 mark, but had some decent form especially in Meydan when runner up in a good handicap last season and was runner up in a Listed race at Kempton then, ensuring his mark remained high (as well as being beaten only 4 1/2 lengths by Al Kazeem last year)

He typically contests the best handicaps around, and has caught the eye several times this year, 3rd in a valuable Meydan handicap at the start of the season off a mark of 100 and really caught the eye when getting no run at Newmarket off 102 in April. Handicapper is finally starting to relent and somehow dropped him 2lbs for what wasn't a bad run at Carlisle last time, down to an all time low mark of 89. New headgear on today and the booking of Hughes catches the eye given he could have ridden Hannon's Exchequer a general 7/1 shot. Bit of money for him last night, he's a stand out 6/1 with Coral. I took the 7/1 available with them last night and I'd be disappointed if he couldn't run well off this kind of mark