A Sunday Yankee for Lingfield Park to pay for those Christmas extras!

The opening flat race on the Lingfield Park card at 1:30 sees six 2yo all having had outings with five having appeared on the All Weather. From what has been achieved to-date on the clock I am far happier siding with SHEILAS FOOTSTEPS @ 4-1 than Fine Vintage at Evens.

We have an odd bunch competing in the 2:00 with none of the runners exactly excelling over this trip on previous attempts. I would rather lay form horses Meglio Ancora and Polydamos than back them.
ARCHELAO is now on a mark 1lb higher than when scoring over C&D back in April. It may also be significant that Amir Quinn, the jockey on that occasion is back in the saddle for the first time since that win.

Norfolk Sky looked like it had a more favourable opportunity earlier in the week before being withdrawn in the line-up. Although Layline and Wildomar make some appeal at big prices I am a big fan of SPIRITOFTOMINTOUL and the way it stayed on when scoring over this trip at Kempton Park LTO would suggest there is more in the locker.

As with the 2:00 we have a race of square pegs in round holes and it is noticeable that there has been significant support for Chiltern Secret who opened plenty short enough for a horse with 000 from 3 Maidens runs.  It is a tab in the dark but IMJIN RIVER offers some value and has the highest level of consistency.

Have a good Christmas and good luck today 

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