More Friday night fare at Dundalk and a few interesting market movers already, including Anjalawi in the nursery, who was completely the wrong price at 4/1 but I couldn't be tipping now he's into 13/8.
So we'll look elsewhere and the Irish EBF Maiden Sires Maiden could be a decent standard. Zozimus is an obvious one based on his second at the Curragh but there's not much value in the price from stall 16 on his first go on the surface.
He's bred to handle it but for me ALWAYS WAITIN is definitely the value in this race. I think you can boil it down to two or three horses, essentially, and this one shaped very well on debut at Cork a month or so ago. Following a slow start, he was towards the back but once the penny began to drop he made up good ground through the field on the rail.
He stayed on to be third and there was plenty to like about that effort. The horse just behind him, Let Me Pass, was just beaten in a maiden at Gowran Park on Tuesday, the fifth horse home, Flying Visit, is now rated 93 having won a Listed race, while seventh horse, Benaud, has won a nursery off 79 since.
That gives a good bit of context to the level of form and Always Waitin is obviously entitled to improve for the first run. He's not the best drawn in stall 12 but there's a bit of dead wood in this race and he's a good each-way price at 7s under Seamie Heffernan with Billy Lee suspended.
I didn't know a huge amount about Always Waitin's sire, Tamarkuz, but he was by Speightstown and he absolutely flew on the Tapeta, winning a load of races at Meydan and another on the Polytrack at Kempton. So I'd be surprised if the switch from turf to all-weather results in a backwards step.
The other one I like on the night is INDIGNATION in the last - the Crowne Plaza Hotel Dundalk Handicap.
Trainer John McConnell could hardly have his horses in better shape and he's booked Colin Keane, who has ridden 11 winners for the yard already at a decent strike-rate.
McConnell does well at Dundalk and Indignation really caught the eye on his third start here last February when third behind Narynkol. He wasn't seen following that run until July when I thought he ran a superb race at Fairyhouse in July.
We're taking on trust that he's fit and he's obviously got some sort of training issue but he can go well fresh and, dropped 2lb to a mark of 66, he looks weighted to go really well. With the yard in form he's worth chancing at the price, especially with four places on offer just about across the board.
Posted at 1130 BST on 23/10/20
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