Jack Milner
As has often been the case lately, the better bets appear early on Tuesday’s nine-race card at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth.
Of course, that gives bettors the opportunity to get off to a positive start and build up a bit of kitty for the later exotics, which look a lot more testing.
Trainer Vaughan Marshall’s acumen after years in the horseracing industry is indisputable and the veteran trainer is possibly having one of the best seasons of what has been an illustrious career.
Even though he has lost three-year-old One Stripe who is on his way to carry the flag internationally, Marshall still has a number of other young horses in his yard.
Ideally named Viva La Vida, which translates as “long live life”, looks another interesting prospect and the daughter of Gimmethegreenlight can shed her maiden tag at the second time of asking in Race 1, a Maiden Juvenile Plate for fillies over 1200m.
Viva La Vida showed promise on debut when finishing runner-up to Lowveld Lily. That run came over the same course and distance, and she should be hard to beat, especially as Lowveld Lily finished fourth in Saturday’s Listed Irridescence Stakes over 1400m.
Jockey Gavin Lerena is another having a superb season and a lot of those opportunities have been provided to him by Marshall. He had an excellent rapport with One Stripe, winning both the Cape Guineas and the L’Ormarins King’s Plate, both Grade 1s, aboard this top colt.
Lerena rode Viva La Vida on debut and will be aboard once again on this occasion.
It could be third time lucky for Du Maurier a race later, as the Captain Of All filly has been unlucky not to win either of her first two starts. She was runner-up to She’s My World on debut and followed that up with another second-place finish, this time behind Inside Voice.
She tries 1200m now, which should not pose any problem. Jockey Aldo Domeyer takes the ride.
Jack Milner’s selections
Race 1: 1 Viva La Vida, 8 Beautiful One, 3 Marketa, 7 Beach Verse
Race 2: 4 Du Maurier, 10 My Dear Friend, 2 Meghan's Diamond, 3 Seven No Trump
Race 3: 5 Song To The Moon, 4 Pinot Grigio, 1 Omikami, 8 Dubbelosix
Race 4: 1 Money Extractor, 10 Moment Of Truth, 5 Sesame, 6 Real Stunner
Race 5: 5 Smart Horse, 11 Better Man, 10 Balzi Rossi, 2 Set To Music
Race 6: 6 Dive Bomber, 2 Arbitration, 1 King's Quest, 7 Hoodia
Race 7: 6 Dawn Till Dusk, 3 Promettere, 9 Innamorare, 2 Please Be True
Race 8: 1 Diamond Bomber, 4 Bright Gold, 1 Sweet Conifer, 6 Angel's Oasis
Race 9: 2 Circumbendibus, 11 One Liner, 8 Trippi's Silk, 6 Elsinore
BEST BET
Race 1: 1 Viva La Vida
VALUE BET
Race 6: 6 Dive Bomber
BEST SWINGER
Race 2 4x10
BIPOT
R384
Leg 1: 4
Leg 2: 1, 4, 5, 8
Leg 3: 1, 5, 10
Leg 4: 5, 11
Leg 5: 1, 2, 6, 7
Leg 6: 2, 3, 6, 9
PLACE ACCUMULATOR
R324
Leg 1: 1, 4, 5
Leg 2: 1, 10
Leg 3: 5, 11
Leg 4: 1, 2, 6
Leg 5: 3, 6, 9
Leg 6: 1, 4, 11
Leg 7: 2
PICK 6
R1920
Leg 1: 1, 5, 6, 9, 10
Leg 2: 5, 11
Leg 3: 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 14
Leg 4: 2, 3, 6, 9
Leg 5: 1, 4, 6, 11
Leg 6: 2, 11
JACKPOT 1
R192
Leg 1: 5, 11
Leg 2: 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 14
Leg 3: 2, 3, 6, 9
Leg 4: 1, 4, 6, 11
JACKPOT 2
R192
Leg 3: 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 14
Leg 4: 2, 3, 6, 9
Leg 5: 1, 4, 6, 11
Leg 6: 2, 11