Raceday focus: Best bets, latest odds for Pakenham, Hamilton
A couple of shorties running around at Pakenham should provide the necessary impetus to send punters into the weekend on a high, predicts leading form analyst Michael Manley. BEST BETS
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Herald Sun’s Michael Manley knows the importance of entering the weekend with a bank and for that reason alone reckons a few shorties running around on Thursday may provide the necessary pot of gold.
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PAKENHAM SYNTHETIC
BEST BET
TRITON RISING (R8, No. 1 $1.50)
Smart galloper resuming who looks well placed in a Class 1 event. He’s raced well in the city in stakes company and has been competitive against the likes of Soul Patch, Banquo and Hilo. Two first-up runs for a third and a fourth at Sandown Lakeside.
NEXT BEST
QUESADILLA (R2, No. 9 $1.95)
Hasn’t had much luck in two starts where she has been trapped wide both times and finished second on each occasion at Kyneton and Pakenham. Again drawn out but looks well placed.
MORE SUNDAYS (R7, No. 8 $3)
This impeccably bred son of Fastnet Rock and More Joyous resumes as a gelding and has run well in recent Flemington jump-outs. He’s shown ability along the way but might be ready to put it altogether.
BEST EACH-WAY
FIORENTE’S GIRL (R6, No. 9 $7.50)
Hasn’t started since huge effort to win at Wangaratta at her last start where she settled well back and was trapped wide throughout but still surged home for narrow victory in a Benchmark 58. She’s was competitive against some smart horses earlier in her career.
TAKE NOTE
ZOUAGEM (R1, No. 4 $2)
Looked sharp in recent Flemington jump-out where he finished third behind two smart horses in Somal and Holbien. He has been heavily backed to win this.
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HAMILTON
BEST BEST
ROME (R2, No. 4 $2)
Former Snowden trained three-year-olld gelding by Pierro who has now joined Aaron Purcell’s stables at Warrnambool. He’s a Group 3 placegetter as a two-year-old and also at his last start in January finished fifth in a maiden at Canterbury, beaten 1.8 lengths by Rammstein.
NEXT BET
FIRST RESPONDER (R6, No. 2 $4.20)
Former NSW galloper now with Kelvin Bourke. Followed debut sixth for him at Ballarat on a heavy track with a second at Swan Hill where he sat wide and led and fought hard to get beaten narrowly by Winsome Voyage over 1200m.
THE JOCKEY
JORDAN CHILDS
Top jockey Jordan Childs has a full book of rides and several good chances headed by BEAU BELLE (R1, No. 11 $3.30), STINGA (R2, No. 5), FIRST RESPONDER (R6, No. 2 $4.20), KING OF VANDALS (R7, No. 5 $4.60) and MISS CAVENDISH (R9, No. 10 $11).
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