Today sees Number 1 on the list – The Galway Plate<\/strong> take place at 5.30pm. \u00a0This is always a competitive affair with a maximum field of 22 runners racing over the odd distance of 2m 6f at a helter skelter course and run at a furious pace.<\/p>\n Normally most of the big races are run over more standard distances of 2m 4f or 3m+ and this in-between distance sets punters a problem. Do you go with the faster horses that can win over 2m 4f or go with the stayers who can win over 3m? Pace versus stamina, it’s always a question.<\/p>\n As with most big handicaps, The Galway Plate<\/strong> has built up some pretty useful stats over the last 10 years, on which we can base our selections.<\/p>\n 1) 8\/10 were aged 7 – 9<\/p>\n 2) 9\/10 carried less than 11 stone<\/p>\n 3) 8\/10 were rated 127 – 139<\/p>\n 4) 10\/10 had run in no more than 16 chases<\/p>\n 5) 10\/10 had won over 2m 4f<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So by using the stats we can start our look at the Galway Plate<\/strong> by focussing on horses 13 to 22, a nice group of 10.<\/p>\n Out of these we can lose Away We Go, Golden Kite, Shanpallas and Wise Old Owl due to age, leaving us a shortlist of Grandads Horse, It’s a Gimme, Lord Ben, Burn and Turn, Balnaslow and Count Salazar.<\/p>\n Of these I will omit Grandads Horse, who looked out of sorts a couple of weeks ago at Market Rasen in the Summer Plate, and It’s a Gimme who won the Summer Plate but who looked a really hard ride and needed all of AP McCoy’s force to get him home. I think it is significant that AP isn’t aboard today.<\/p>\n That leaves us 4, which is 1 too many for my plan. Lord Ben has run 3rd here to Rebel Fitz (a former Galway Hurdle winner) over 2m and was placed over 3m later on , so I don’t think stamina will be an issue, but a lack of a win over 2m 4f rules him out.<\/p>\n Down to the final 3\u00a0– Burn and Turn, Balnaslow and Count Salazar<\/em>. These 3 fit the bill for my stats. It is very interesting that Brian O’Connell has got down to 10st 3lbs (only 1lb higher than his lowest weight) to ride Count Salazar<\/em> who has a course and distance win to his name, whilst Robbie Power and Jessica Harrington are a force to be reckoned with when they team up, making Burn and Turn<\/em> a major player.\u00a0Balnalsow<\/em> represents two of racing’s’ major powers in W. Mullins and Gigginstown Stud, so obviously he has to be in the bet.<\/p>\n I am going to try and crack all 4 of the big races this week and grow my bank from a starting pot of 10 units by using a staggered staking system that will ensure\u00a0a decent profit from each horse if they win.<\/p>\n The Galway Plate 5.30 pm – Best Bets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 5 points<\/em> on Burn and Turn @ 10\/1<\/strong> with bet365<\/a>\u00a0(profit 45 points)<\/p>\n 3 points<\/em> on Balnaslow @ 16\/1<\/strong> with bet365<\/a>\u00a0(profit 41 points)<\/p>\n 2 points<\/em> on Count Salazar @ 33\/1<\/strong> with bet365<\/a>\u00a0(profit 58 points)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are 4 big summer handicaps run this week. 2 at Goodwood and 2 at Galway. They are the bet365 mile, the 32 Red Cup, \u00a0the Galway Plate and \u00a0the Galway Hurdle. Today sees Number 1 on the list – The Galway Plate take place at 5.30pm. \u00a0This is always a competitive affair with a maximum field of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}