Riverside Theatre likely to prevail in Betfred Bowl Chase Grade 1
Riverside Theatre is likely to win the Betfred Bowl Chase Grade 1 at Aintree in England on Thursday, April 12, 2012. The triumphant horse will bag a cash prize of £84,405 in the end.
The going will be good to soft in the 3 mile 1 furlong race, which is scheduled to start at 15:05 GMT, and a total of 11 runners will be seen in action. Their names are as follows: Riverside Theatre, Burton Port, Medermit, Hunt Ball, Nacarat, What A Friend,
Master Of The Hall, Diamond Harry, Carruthers, Follow The Plan and Roberto Goldback.
Looking at the recent form of all the participants, the bookies have given the best odds to Riverside Theatre, who is in spectacular form right now. He is likely to win the confidence of the punters as well, who will be placing quite a few bets in his favour
today.
The eight-year-old gelding has been performing pretty consistently in chase events, thus it will be quite hard to stop him from winning. He has entered nine of such events, winning six of them. In addition to that, he has also secured a runner up position
once, which means that there were only a couple of occasions, where he failed to make it to the top three.
Importantly, the Nicky Henderson’s trainee has been doing a great job in recent times as well. He has won three back to back races and will be chasing his fourth consecutive victory.
Riverside Theatre will be partnered by Barry Geraghty, who is a terrific rider and has won 95 races while chasing. His strike rate is also quite impressive, as he is a consistent performer.
On the other hand, Burton Port will also be the one to watch out for in today’s race. He has a decent strike rate, as he has managed to win five chase races out of nine attempts. Moreover, he has also finished runner up on three occasions, which means that
he only failed to make it to the top three once.
The eight-year-old gelding will be partnered by arguable the best jockey at present, A. P. McCoy, who has won 316 chase races.
It will be tough for the remaining runners to match the quality of Riverside Theatre and Burton Port in today’s race.
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