It may have been a tough Saturday night for favourite punters but there were some notable performances including three additions to the Monday Metrospective’s Blackbook.
TrotsLife co-hosts and form analysts Jason Bonnington and Nikkita Ross agreed on the Tabcorp Park Melton eye-catchers, with the SENTrack show’s Blackbook swelling to eight.
The night also began well for Blackbook followers, with last week’s addition Captain Confetti (pictured) taking out the first at double-figure odds.
Both agreed it was a tough night to find black bookers, but the following produced enough to be horses to follow in coming weeks.
RACE 1: 6 OZZIE PLAYBOY
JB: This guy just keeps running big races without reward, but the dam wall must bust soon. He’s versatile, but does love short-course racing and just needs a draw to aid his cause.
NR: He made the move to the breeze over the short trip, which is a role we haven’t seen him in recently and one that is not an easy thing to do. He is racing with a lot of confidence and to stick on and be beaten just over 2.5 metres in a 1:52.8 mile rate was a terrific effort.
RACE 8: 6 BALTICA
JB: This very lightly raced seven-year-old mare has well above average talent and is trending toward something with her past two efforts at Melton. She’ll never be a moral in anything she contests but she will be winning soon.
NR: This mare is racing really well. She made up good ground from well back and wide. In a race where four of the first five home had pegline runs she was the exception.
RACE 9: 8 NONPARREIL
JB: This girl could really be something. Yes, she was beaten in Saturday night’s Home Grown Classic for 3YO fillies but there’s something about her scintillating speed and impressive physique that seriously suggests she will make the grade.
NR: This lightly-raced filly was caught in a major traffic jam for a long way, but when she finally saw clear air she attacked the line like a beast. She looks to have inherited some of her mum’s (Arms Of An Angel) speed and was awfully unlucky, but the way she closed off was everything you wanted to see to follow her moving forward.
HORSES IN THE METROSPECTIVE BLACKBOOK: Baltica, Bulletproof Boy, Captain Confetti, Eva Mateo, Nonparreil, Ozzie Playboy, Pray Tell, Wheres Seggy (races at Geelong on Thursday)
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