Maidens take stage before Chester Ante Post Bet

After the thrill of the Guineas festival weekend there is a nice interlude before Chester kicks off on Wednesday. On Monday and Tuesday a few of the novices and maidens get chance to gain racecourse experience.

4 horses were entered in the Windsor Class 3 Novice over 8f due off 3.33. The unraced Kingman colt Kahin and the twice raced Sea the Stars colt Windbreaker take their chance and both should be watched with the future in mind.

Thunder Call goes to Kempton for the class 4 maiden at 2.35 . He showed promise on his second outing at Doncaster but that race was on bottomless ground and although this looks a two horse race – he is another to wait until he moves into handicap company before a possible betting opportunity can be considered.

On Tuesday Guestimate is entered in the restricted Novice stakes at Wolverhampton. He is another maiden that needs to show a better level of form before he can be considered as a betting opportunity.

A more detailed look at Chester will follow on Tuesday but there ia an early Ante Post opportunity. It is clearly a risky strategy to back against O’Brien and Ryan Moore in the Derby Trials around Chester. Although his Guineas runners performed well at Newmarket, there are still doubts about his Derby horses.

In the hope that they may not be fully right for Chester this year, the early market for Thursday’s Dee Stakes does provide us with an opportunity to bet on the Haggas trained Feilden Stakes winner Morshdi.

Constitution River will head the market at cramped odds if as looks likely he is the Ballydoyle selected runner. Morshdi is available at 4/1 (1-2 places) , the plan is to run in this race even with the 3lb penalty he picked for his Newmarket win.

There are only 14 entries and O’Brien has 5 of them and Balding, Burke and Appleby have two each. It’s a fair assumption that each will go with a single representative which means there could be a field of 5 or 6 and the 4/1 looks an each way bet to nothing.

Recommended Bet 1pt EW Morshdi 4/1 or bigger 1-2 places 2.35 Chester Thursday

Morshdi Good value at 4/1 for Dee Stakes.