Horse Racing Tips: Dunnet Head a popular choice on Monday
There are three horse racing fixtures taking place on Monday and the action gets under way at Ayr at 11:50, while there's alternative racing at Lingfield and Chelmsford. We preview all the action here and pick out some of the most eye-catching naps, as well as looking at some of the big racing stories hitting the racing headlines...
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Most Napped Horses Today
Ayr's afternoon Jumps card has proven extremely popular with our tipsters on Monday and the most popular nap of the day lines up at the Scottish track at 13:50 and the horse in question is Iain Jardine's Dunnet Head, who is around the 11/4 mark, at the time of writing. A winner last time out at Carlisle, Jardine's raider has been napped by a whopping five tipsters - including second placed tipster Brian Flanagan from the Irish Daily Star - and the five-year-old will need to defy a 4lbs rise to land the spoils today. Other popular naps running at Ayr today include the Nicky Richards-trained Florida Dreams, who is an odds-on favourite for the 12:20 at Ayr and has been napped by four tipsters, while Ned Tanner is another napped by a quartet of tipsters and that contender lines up in the 13:20 race. Over at Chelmsford's evening all-weather card, two horses have been napped by three tipsters and the first of those is Charlie Johnston's Urban Sprawl, who is 4/1 for the 19:30 race, while an hour earlier at 18:30 the odds-on favourite Persian Blue is another napped by three tipsters.
Horseracing.net says: "An impressive one-and-three-quarter length winner at Carlisle last month, Dunnet Head shaped like there could be more to come over timber and he looks capable of defying a 4lbs rise in the 13:50 at Ayr today. His stamina came to the fore in the closing stages of that event, so the step up in trip to 2m 4f this afternoon should bring on even more improvement and he can land the prize."
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Follow The Leaders
The Punt from the Racing Post sits clear at the racing naps table with a profit of £24.29 and that tipster heads to Lingfield Park this afternoon for the nap of the day and the high-flying tipster has napped Royal Athena in the 13:05 race. James Owen's three-year-old filly made a sublime switch from the Flat to the Jumps by winning at Fakenham and she will look to continue her progression over timber here. With only two runs to date over hurdles, Royal Athena is one that is likely to improve as the season progresses and she has to be a leading contender for today's task. Brian Flanagan from The Irish Daily Star is second in the naps table and that tipster has napped the popular Dunnet Head in the 13:50 at Carlisle, while The Irish Sun tipster, who is third in the naps table, has napped Urban Sprawl in the 19:30 at Chelmsford.
Naps Table Leaders Naps
- The Punt - 13:05 Lingfield - Royal Athena
- Brian Flanagan - 13:50 Carlisle - Dunnet Head
- The Irish Sun - 19:30 Chelmsford - Urban Sprawl
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