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Scott Embry’s Wednesday Belmont Preview

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RACE 1

MISS GRAPHENE – is today the day? Very hard to get overly enthusiastic about a 15 start, 6 year old maiden mare in a 2100m to start the program, but boy there’s some well exposed opposition. They’ve all been racing each other of recent times and she’s been better than the rest of these on many occasions. Masmelo ran out of her skin in the Champion Fillies on Saturday and hopefully Shaun O’Donnell can continue his rich vein of form from the weekend. LEAD CINGA kept whacking away in a 2200m maiden behind Into The Future in what turned into a real grind. ROCKIN’ ROBIN led that event and then stopped abruptly at the 200. FULMINE brings alternate form and that could well be a good thing.

Numbers: 8 – 10 – 5 – 12

Suggested Bet – MISS GRAPHENE WIN

RACE 2

FLASH DANCER made his debut as a 2 year old behind Mardusa when running second and then at his second career outing sat wide throughout in a forgive, before finishing his preparation on a Saturday at Pinjarra behind undefeated star King Of Light. Recent trial was solid and he looks to have come back bigger and stronger this time around. Nice starting point for him. CANNYKEV has always shown above average ability at trials and this campaign is no different. He has won both of his 1000m barrier trials and looks the testing material. TORA BORA should have finished significantly closer on debut as a 2 year old behind Silent Diva in a messy run race. WILD THINGS will get back and attack the line late.

Numbers: 6 – 1 – 12 – 13

Suggested Bet – FLASH DANCER EACHWAY

RACE 3

GODLESS STORM has clearly had some issues across his lifetime, being only at start three as a 6 year old but everything he has done has been great. His debut third to King’s Salute was highly encouraging, his returning second to Gabex was brilliant (wrong part of track) and here he has his first ever second-up run. Fingers crossed Diane Reed gets some reward for effort. ROCK THE MARKET returns off the back of a nice trial behind Cannykev (likely to jump favourite in Race 2). She was still very new and green on debut when finishing second to Return Of The Mach and hopefully the spell is exactly what she required. VIRESHA and RISING FAME both come through the Itzabeast race. Thought there was more to like about VIRESHA but again RISING FAME has the map advantage.

Numbers: 3 – 6 – 12 – 5

Suggested Bet – GODLESS STORM EACHWAY

RACE 4 

RADIANT LIGHT has all the form lines to win this. Placed to Mardusa, placed to King Of Light, placed to Dominatus and then last time out finished midfield in an extremely high rating Fairetha Stakes behind undefeated King of Light, highly promising colt Heza Phoenix and exciting staying prospect Rock Fest. Back to a maiden and looks hard to beat. NINETYMILESTRAIGHT has to go from 1000m to 1300m which is a task but she kept trying behind speedy filly Wiluna Lass. REFEMME NO ANGEL had been trialling well before Ourgirlcanrun ran them all of their legs first-up. JOE BE COOL wasn’t horrible on debut.

Numbers: 1 – 10 – 6 – 7

Suggested Bet – RADIANT LIGHT WIN

RACE 5

SOUND OF SPEED has only been to the races three times: fourth on debut as a 2 year old behind stablemate and Supremacy Stakes, Placid Ark winner Luana Miss, seventh at his return when looking all at sea down the 1000m straight at Pinjarra and then a dominant near 3.5L all the way winner at Bunbury. Except he’ll be on a jump and run mission and that looks very suitable here. ANABALLISTIC is a good use of the Jefferson Tsang 3kg claim and will do no work following the fence. SHE’S CAPITANA was an alarming drifter at Ascot and ran accordingly. KING’S DRAMA has been a model of consistency all preparation.

Numbers: 5 – 3 – 6 – 1

Suggested Bet – SOUND OF SPEED WIN

RACE 6

BELTA OF A SONG is quite a nice mare for this grade. Since winning a maiden, C1 and C3 in back to back to back victories she has raced in 3x 60+ events and while being beaten margins has actually dropped back down to the same handicap rating as she had when she won the C3 under William Pike at Bunbury (m61). Puts her in a really nice spot weight wise and her recent trial suggests she’s back to somewhere near her best. Enigmatic mare but on her day she’s sharp. SHAMILLIAN MISS was huge at Bunbury on Melb Cup Day when covering plenty of additional ground and being left a sitting duck to be gunned down by an emerging SW talent in Galway Shawl. SWEET SURRENDER looked good the day she broke her maiden at 1800 and can sprint well fresh. IMPRESSIVE JEWEL can go through her grades.

Numbers: 2 – 4 – 8 – 5

Suggested Bet – BELTA OF A SONG WIN

RACE 7

ALASKALOT will improve tenfold off his first run in over 900 days. Only blew out late and will find the 1300m tempo far more to his liking than the race at Ascot that had a stack of high speed. Always had a big opinion of the horse and trusting in the Fiore training operation to keep him sound and find improvement with each and every run of the campaign. BEAU’S A LAD trialled nicely in between and inside horses at Belmont and is well placed against the older horses. TRUE BLUE BONDI is lightly raced, has versatility and has Pike. ROCKET JUICE can be hard to catch but he maps to get a lovely run here. TRUE

Numbers: 2 – 11 – 7 – 5

Suggested Bet – ALASKALOT EACHWAY

RACE 8

INTOXICATING is really well placed here by Simon Miller. She broke her maiden in a 3 year old 0MWLY and then in that same grade last Wednesday ran into undefeated filly Hot And High who is now Lee Steere Stakes bound. Gets out to 1400m, drops back into C1 company and carries the exact same weight. She’ll get back and join the three deep line which hopefully is a winnable position in running come Race 8. BOUSSAC is nearly (very nearly) out of chances. Backing up off 7 days and dropping back in grade allows him one final opportunity. FIRE THE LOT was solid in his return at Bunbury. ZIPPY ZANY continues to try hard and go close.

Numbers: 13 – 1 – 2 – 4

Suggested Bet – INTOXICATING WIN

Quaddie (Race 5 – 8)

3,5,6

2,4

1,2,3,4,5,7,11,12

1,2,13

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