Maggie Pink won it easily as the clear favourite. Mountain Range ran a cracker but got going too late, finished 3rd. And Birdman ran a stinker but what a strange race that was! Have to say front-runner seems to have a huge advantage at Wolverhampton at the moment...
15.30 Lingfield: While You Wait @ 10/3 Paddy Power - 5pts win
While You Wait ran an absolute cracker in a claimer recently on his first start after a two month long break. He had a huge disadvantage on the huge to the eventual winner and long odds on favourite La Estrella but came with a big run on the outside from 2f out and seemed to have the race on his mercy, but the jockey seemed a bit too confident and just asked While You Wait too late for everything, while La Estrella by a neck in the end. He clarly gets the 2m trip though and he showed a fine performance over course and distance off a similar mark back in November when he finished 2nd. That day he travelled like a dream, but the eventual winner got first run from the front which made the difference. They pulled clear a long way from the rest of the field and this form looks good. I expect him really to score tomorrow as he also has still not too many miles on the clock and it doesn't take too much to win this race.
16.30 Lingfield: Starlight Princess @ 7/1 Bet365 - 2pts win
Not often that I like three horses in one and the same race and then in a rather small field. But I have Aramadyh on my list as well as Frederic Chopin and it would be a pity if one these two would win now as for price reasons I dismiss them both and go with the third horse on my list: Starlight Princess. This filly is hugely progressive and showed some spectacular performances in the recent weeks and month. She usually travelles strongly and then produces a nice turn of foot to come from the back of the field. She was a big eye-catcher on many occasions before, quite so in her penultimate start when she won it on the line coming from an impossible looking position and she clearly confirmed that she is up to her revised mark over a new and longer trip only four days ago. The race was slowly run and she travelled at the back of the field, having an awful lot to do turning for home. The progressive Mark Johnston runner wasn't to catch but Starlight Princess travelled strongly as always and finished a fine third, while getting a slight bump inside the final furlong and shifting slightly too. She drops in class tomorrow, can run of the same mark, is still unexposed over ten furlongs and should go really well.
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