/ Joe Szekeres / 05 August 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Newmarket's July Course
"The lightly-raced Long Awaited is the main eye catcher here. He was beaten favourite on his handicap debut last time, but shaped better than the bare form suggests."
Newmarket is the venue for today's Placepot, hopefully providing followers with a winning combination for the second time this week, and Joe Szekeres is hoping he can achieve this in just four lines...
17:50 - Citizen's Charter is our opening banker from Newmarket and this two-year-old can improve for the step up in trip, having shaped as if in need of the extra furlong last time out when fourth behind Harbour Watch over six furlongs at this venue. He wasn't given a hard race on that occasion and can run well off of what seems a fairly workable mark given his pedigree, physique and connections.
18:20 - Two selections here in what looks to be a tricky seller and our first choice is Speedi Mouse, who overcame greenness to make a winning debut in one of these at Yarmouth 11 days ago. Failing that, our second selection is Tweedle Dee. She was a promising fourth behind Rayvin Black at Yarmouth last month on debut and is another likely to improve for her first appearance.
18:55 - A race full of unraced two-year-olds will be the downfall of many a placepot this evening and this looks by far the trickiest race on the card but based on breeding we are going to side with Metalmark and Wrotham Heath, both sired by a useful source of two-year-old winners in Dansili. Metalmark was a very expensive yearling, costing connections over €200,000Y and Wrotham Heath currently holds an entry in the Dewhurst. At least one of these should run well enough to see us through.
19:30 - Handicap debutant Ryton Runner is our second banker of the evening. This John Gosden trained three-year-old shaped encouragingly on debut in 2010 prior to finding the company too hot in a valuable sales race on his only subsequent outing that year. He ran with plenty of promise on his seasonal reappearance when finishing fifth behind Sud Pacifique in a Doncaster maiden over this trip back in April, shaping as if better than the bare form would suggest on that occasion with his best work coming at the end under a hands and heels ride. He has received a seemingly lenient handicap mark as a result and heads here with every chance.
20:00 - Al Kazeem is head of the Timeform ratings for this and rates as the third banker of the evening. He has steadily improved throughout his career and showed his very best last time out defeating Labarinto, Fulgur and Dominant, all three of which have gone on to post victories in good-quality races. Tonight's race is quite competitive despite the small field, but Al Kazeem is open to the most improvement and looks to one to beat.
20:30 - The lightly-raced Long Awaited is the main eye catcher here. He was beaten favourite on his handicap debut last time, but shaped better than the bare form suggests, travelling best of all but arguably reaching the front too soon and not given a hard time of it by his jockey once passed. That performance suggested that Long Awaited is well handicapped and he's our final banker of the evening.
Selections: 4 lines
17:50 - 2
18:20 - 6, 10
18:55 - 8, 13
19:30 - 7
20:00 - 1
20:30 - 6
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