Timeform UK SmartPlays: Wednesday November 28

Harrison George runs at Kempton this evening.

A brace of winning SmartPlays yesterday provides confidence aplenty ahead of today's selections...

Racing at Wolverhampton gets underway at 13:10, and their opening contest sees our first SmartPlay go to post. Silver Wind was in good form at this time last year as he won twice at this venue, including over this distance, and the suspicion is that he may be ready to regain that sort of form following two encouraging spins on the turf on his most recent starts. He was an obvious eyecatcher on his penultimate start at Nottingham, finishing strongly over an inadequate five furlongs, and whilst he couldn't quite confirm all of that promise at Doncaster last time he went for a long way like one that was ready to strike. He is on precisely the same mark as when winning 12 months ago and is taken to enter the winners' enclosure once more. 

Our second selection also runs at Wolverhampton, this time in the 16:20, as the James Tate-trained Dubawi Island is taken to reverse the form with Desert Creek from a fortnight ago. Conceding 11 lb to Desert Creek that day, Dubawi Island was beaten only a length and a quarter and shaped better than the bare result to boot, kicking four lengths clear early in the straight, having made the running, before being caught close home. He did too much too soon that day and, conceding just 6 lb to his conqueror today, he ought to prevail.

Harrison George (19:00) was very useful at his best when trained by Richard Fahey and, after a winless 2011, he returned to form for his current yard over seven furlongs at this venue last month, being only narrowly denied by Alraased. The seven-year-old found five furlongs too sharp on his latest start but there was still encouragement to be gleaned from his effort, as he was outpaced in the early stages of the race before running on, without being knocked about, towards the finish. He is expected to bounce back this evening and can take advantage of his BHA mark of 87, which strikes as being fairly lenient.  

Timeform SmartPlays
Back Silver Wind @ 8.27/1 in the 13:10 at Wolverhampton
Back Dubawi Island @ 4.67/2 in the 16:20 at Wolverhampton
Back Harrison George @ 7.413/2 in the 19:00 at Kempton

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