Horse Racing Tips: Paul Jacobs’ Sunday value plays across the tracks

PJ's got four Sunday shouts at Naas, Plumpton & Wolverhampton.

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Paul Jacobs’ Horse Racing Tips

13:30 Naas – Good Time Jonny
14:00 Naas – Croke Park
14:15 Plumpton – Ramo
20:00 Wolverhampton – My Boy Jack

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

13:30 Naas – Good Time Jonny

This looks fairly competitive for the level with several of the 10-runner field still relatively inexperienced over fences. One of those is Good Time Jonny, who was highly regarded as a young horse, but hasn’t quite delivered through his career. It is worth remembering that the son of Shirocco went off as short as 12/1 for the 2022 Albert Bartlett Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and subsequently landed the Pertemps Handicap Hurdle a year later at the big meeting off a mark of 137.

The bay gelding has only raced twice since that big win, finishing fourth of 22 behind the classy West Balboa in a Grade Three handicap hurdle at the Aintree National meeting before one comeback run this season behind Corbetts Cross at Fairyhouse over fences. I have always thought that he had the requisite speed to be effective over the minimum trip too and off 135 here, he could outstay his rivals on the long climb to the winner’s line in this stamina sapping ground.

14:00 Naas – Croke Park

Another cracking renewal of the Lawlor’s which has been landed by the likes of Envoi Allen and Bob Olinger recently and the winner here looks sure to play high rank in the novice hurdle ranks this season. Chapeau De Soleil galloped his rivals into submission to land his maiden hurdle in style at Clonmel, but the placed horses and beyond have done absolutely nothing to advertise the form since.

Firefox has travelled really strongly to make all on his two timber topping starts to date (Ballyburn cemented the form last time) and his high cruising speed is a huge asset, but I just wonder if he will get home here if this turns into a slug fest from the home turn? In any case the Elliott charge has been found in the market place and I am happy to let him win at that kind of price. So, the value call surely has to be Gordon’s second string Croke Park. He looked a strong stayer when he won his point to point at Dromahane and again when stepped up to two and a half miles to land the Grade Three Monksfield Novice Hurdle at Navan. He could exploit any stamina weaknesses in his rivals’ armoury.

    14:15 Plumpton – Ramo

    I couldn’t really find an outside edge to the feature Sussex National Handicap Chase and thought that this event had a much better betting shape to it with a couple of front runners and no less than three pressers in a field of eight.

    There is little denying that former top class chaser Eldorado Allen is very well treated over hurdles compared to the larger obstacles and his chance is there for all to see. In contrast, top weight Call Me Lord will need to step up on his success at Hereford in a race which very much fell into his lap; this requires a whole lot more.

    So the nod goes to the Venetia Williams’ trained charge Ramo who unlike the majority of his rivals remains unexposed and hails from a team in top form. The seven-year-old is one of the likely pace setters here, but doesn’t have to be on the sharp end as his success at Newton Abbot earlier in the year indicates. He has steadily gone up in the weights in the past 10 months, but showed he was still fairly treated on his staying on second at Carlisle last time out and has leading claims if not pulling too hard early on.

    20:00 Wolverhampton – My Boy Jack

    There is some good prize money up for grabs in the lower grade handicaps on the Dunstall Park card and as with all the races this class six event looks wide open, even more so than division two half an hour later. Voltaic is becoming very nicely treated and is effective over this trip, but he may well suffer the same fate as he did last time out over seven furlongs as he could be forced to race wide again. If Molly Gunn can get him in behind runners he is probably the biggest danger to My Boy Jack.

    In the lower echelons at Wolverhampton this course and distance winner is just about as consistent a sprinter as you will find which makes it hard for the handicapper to drop him in the weights. He didn’t get the pace to run at on each of his last two starts here, but on paper that will not be the case here and I expect him to come through late on to grab the glory.

    Paul Jacobs’ Horse Racing Tips

    13:30 Naas – Good Time Jonny
    14:00 Naas – Croke Park
    14:15 Plumpton – Ramo
    20:00 Wolverhampton – My Boy Jack

    *All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

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