Stan James Laurels preview: part one
The Stan James Laurels starts Thursday night at Belle Vue Stadium. The £6000 final will be run on October 5. Heading into the first round of heats, Bucks Yahoo is the 13-2 favourite to win the Laurels, and Jordansoilutions is just behind at 7-1.
"The Laurels is an event with a long established and illustrious history, and one that Stan James is very proud to be associated with,” said Stan James’ head of PR Charlie McCann.
Here we take a look at the entrants for the first two heats.
Heat one
Judicial Pause highlights the first heat at 14-1 to win the Laurels. Pause won his last race by a whopping 19¾ lengths, and has won four of his last five races. This race will be a warm-up for Pause who will face tougher competition in later rounds.
Boolavogue has not looked good in his last two races, finishing in fifth and third after poor starts. He’ll need a great start and maybe a fall or two to qualify for the next round. He’ll race from trap two.
In the third trap is Ping The Lids, who led his last race to the finish line only to lose by a shoulder to Hello Dino. Before that race Lids had won three out of four races, two of them at the A1 level.
Fatboyz Romeo will go from the fourth trap, and stands a good chance of finishing in the top three of this race after finishing no lower than second in his last three races.
Coming from trap five will be Tuttles Maldini. He has won two of his last three races, one of which was an A2 race.
In the sixth trap is Killieford Fire, who has had mixed results of late. After winning two out of three races, Fire finished in fourth in his last race after getting off to a slow start.
Heat two
The second heat will see Magna Buddy, who is 8-1 to win the Laurels, go from the first trap. The odds say he’ll win, but his performance has been difficult to predict with two wins in his last five races, and fourth and fifth place finishes in those five
as well.
Hello Dino comes in with 12-1 odds for the Laurel and will race from the second trap. His last five races have been much more consistent than Buddy’s with three wins and two second place finishes.
Another strong candidate for the Laurels is Peggys Way in the third trap, with 12-1 odds to win the final. He’s won three of his last five races, but hasn’t looked as dominant in his past two races as the three before.
Wally Billy comes from the fourth trap, and despite a win at Monmore on September 4, he will be hard pressed to finish high in this race.
Target Brett in the fifth trap won his last race, but it was a T3 race, and Brett will probably not contend in this one.
The sixth trap will house Drumcrow Cadet, who has won his last four races, two of them A1 races. Cadet may be a dark horse worth looking at in this one if his odds don’t improve.
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