Balmi Blue prominent in the Stadium Bookmakers Stayers
The Grade OR Stadium Bookmakers Stayers at Oxford on Friday, 28th September has gathered six talented hounds for the £150 prize money. Taking their shot at the 645 metres flat track are Amazon Warrior, Scala Cosey, Queen Vic, Droopys Xavier, Dippy
Boy and Balmi Blue. Only the first trap is emerging from a level not at par with the open company, but all the rest are well seasoned as far as the bench mark for today is concerned.
The 6 to 4 entry, Balmi Blue, reserves the title of the most preferred entry in the field. The three-year-old blue dog has been racing since the last season, and has come clean out of the progressive challenges ranging from Grade T1 to OR. He has raced at
multiple race tracks and over varying distances.
The last five races of the season have been at the open level, but Duke Special’s son could win only once, and got qualified as the runner-up twice. The D. Mullins’ trained had his first shot after the Grade T2 on 17th August, 2012 in the third
heat of the Gain Feeds Yorkshire St Leger on 24th August, 2012 at Doncaster over 661 metres.
Balmi Blue had to share the second position with, Trickys On Fire, as both missed on the winner’s spot by the margin of ¾ of a length. As tonight, he had drawn the sixth trap back in August too.
After a fourth ending in the last race of August, the blue dog bagged the £150 prize money of the third heat of the Champions Night Marathon on 5th September, 2012 at Romford over 750 metres.
Racing away with speed, and leading just near the line had him concluding the race in 47.97 seconds. He held the closing in rival, Westmead Jules, by the short head’s margin.
The last two outings ended in a fourth and then a second position.
Balmi Blue has drawn the sixth trap for tonight’s challenge, and has the chance to cover ground on the wide end, switch to the middle or rail near the wire, and avoid traffic through the trip.
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