Solar Pass another for Oisin

The form of Oisin Murphy in the past couple of weeks has been on almost on a par with Ryan Moore. He is riding at the very top of his form and after another brilliant 7 days – following a day off on Monday he could have ridden at any of the four meetings on Tuesday including an odds on favourite at Redcar.

He rides Leicester brilliantly but has chosen instead to head to the AW meeting at Wolverhampton principally for his ride for his main stable Andrew Balding and the filly Solar Pass in the final race of the day at 20.42.

The very top trainers generally stand by the rule that is better to step young horses up in distance gradually step by step rather than in big chunks. So it has to be significant that Solar Pass after winning at 1m goes up to 12f for this Class 5 handicap.

She won twice on the AW at the turn of the year and she must have improved considerably and strengthened up to go straight for this race.

Balding trained most of the family all of whom stayed and with potential huge improvement expected from an attractive starting mark of 68.

Murphy rode the main danger Tralee Girl to a hard fought victory at Windsor last time out she is also a 3yo – the younger fillies receive a huge weight for age allowance at this time of year and have a considerable advantage over the older fillies and mares.

I was surprised she is available at 2/1 with B365 and expect her to be sent off at 6/4 or less.

Diary of Season 2pt Recommended Bet Solar Pass 8.42 Wolverhampton