Redcar Placepot: Monday May 20

Michael Bell: Trainer of Piazon.

Redcar is the venue for Monday's Placepot attempt...

14:10 - Plenty go to post for the opening leg but very few are of any real interest, so we ought to progress without a hitch by selecting both Marcus Caesar and Loucal. The first mentioned has had just the five starts but already looks fairly consistent, having made the frame on four occasions, and he will be suited by this return to seven furlongs whilst Loucal, trained by Noel Quinlan, shaped as if he were still in good form at Kempton last time, despite not getting the run of things, and he remains on a workable mark. 

14:40 - The Michael Bell-trained Piazon shaped well, amidst clear signs of greenness, on debut at Newmarket earlier this month in what appeals as being a decent race and he could prove to be simply too good for his rivals here with the additional furlong expected to suit.
 
15:10 - The seven furlong fillies' maiden has been split into two divisions, with both contests fairly weak affairs, so we are quite content to select a banker in each half. The one to side with here is Garden Row, who is a sister to the useful five furlong winner Madame Trop Vite and a half-sister to several winners at up to a mile and a half. She cost 100,000 gns as a foal, represents the powerful William Haggas yard and wouldn't need to be anything out of the ordinary to make a winning debut. 

15:40 - Dodina and Drahem, saddled by Peter Chapple-Hyam and James Fanshawe, are of obvious interest on debut but with three places on offer we need only select one. Dodina is the one to make the cut, with the three-year-old making plenty of appeal on paper and her yard more than capable of readying one first-time up. 

16:10 - Last Sovereign and Bedloe's Island are the pair to side with in the penultimate leg, with the latter contesting this lesser race having been found out ever so slightly in a decent affair at York last Thursday. It is worth forgiving Last Sovereign's Chester effort as he blew the start and had no real chance from thereafter; it would come as no surprise were he to bounce back here. 

16:40 - Of the likely improvers in the sixth race, of which there are several, the one we are most interested in is the Julie Camacho-trained Rex Whistler, who makes his handicap debut here. The three-year-old has improved with each outing and will appreciate this step up to a mile, so he is far from a forlorn hope. Curl is yet to win a race and looked a difficult ride at this venue last time but her best effort came when equipped with blinkers last term so, with that aid in place once more, it wouldn't be the biggest surprise to see her acquit herself well. 

Selections: 
14:10 - 2, 4
14:40 - 2
15:10 - 8
15:40 - 6
16:10 - 1, 2
16:40 - 7, 9
= 8 lines

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