Go Cocktails! You alcoholic horse

Go Cocktails! You alcoholic horse

Movieland Turf Express Handicap
Grade III
Five and one half furlongs
Firm Turf
$125,000
All horses, 3 years old and up

1. Digital Overture – Based on the game dam ‘Stealth Overture’, this colt has a similar name.  In career best form, the colt that I like to call ‘Digi-O’ has passed the post first in 7 of its 13 outings.  If conditions suit, Digi-O could finish right up the top or even down the bottom or maybe even somewhere in the middle.

2. Secretariat’s War  – This 4 year old colt looks to be lacking what I call ‘balls’.  He has come to mix it with the best but poor recent form could see him struggle to finish top 3.  At 9/1, I think the bookies will be laughing.

3. Classicus – The owner clmstable has been very tricky here by forming the name ‘Classicus’ out of its sire ‘Sky Classic’ and damsire ‘Pentelicus’, get it? Classi-cus.

4. Cocktails – At 8/1 we could see the next winner of the Movieland Handicap.  Cocktails is one of my favourites and has shown consistent form both as an experienced 5 year old horse and as a movie starring Tom Cruise.  Carryall would have to be happy with the 9 career wins for this horse and if not then may be taking little Cocktails for granted.

5. Scarce Gold – Ignore his flop 2 starts ago because this 4 year old boom colt looks extremely dangerous.  Scarce Gold has shown he has the staying potential when holding off a strong field in his last outing.  Gold may not be so scarce in California this week for unsunghero.

6. Crimsonite – This colt is light grey and that should be enough to get him a top 3 position.

7. Smart Canadian – When I first saw the odds of 84/1, I laughed.  It was only until I saw the horses recent record that I stopped laughing and thought that maybe the owner had a disability.  The name ‘Smart Canadian’ doesn’t even agree with itself, just as I don’t agree with filling class races with 2nd rate horses.  Good luck anyway chasitey72, I’m sure you’re a nice person.

8. Well Meant – Although this boom 3 yr old colt has slightly lower speeds than the favourites, he has shown a lot of heart with a couple of recent wins.  If I was called “Well Meant” then I would be absolutely furious with my parents but that has little relevance to the race.

9. Offstage(GB) – Just coz they won the Ashes, it is unlucky that the Pommy will get up here.  A non-winner from his last 4 starts suggests that he could struggle against an in-form field.  11/1 may be a little generous but clmstable has his second horse in this race still running over 100.

10. Khee’s Heir – This colt has had an up-and-down year this year, and looks to be slightly out of the class of this race.  2 Thumbs up to peeps1 for giving it every chance at graded stakes success but a thumbs down if he thinks it stands a chance.

11. In the evening – This colt will start favourite at 9/2 and steps down a couple of levels in class.  Running a top horse back-to-back is something I’d do if I was wanting to injure one of my claimers but duke is taking the chance here.  I’m glad there’s only 3 horses left.

12. CJ Unbridled – cjwalker has arrogantly named the colt after himself.  This chestnut colt ironically has a chest and nuts and will unlikely add to his 2 career wins.  Still I believe in giving a horse a chance at the top, and I also like the fact that “walker” is in the owners name because it is like Walker Texas Ranger and if Chuck Norris could provide a cameo in this race then it would definitely add a bit of excitement.

13. Stolen(IRE) – After a 2 month lay off, this is my pick of the race.  A colt by Montjeu, Stolen is looking to give the irish something other than a gay accent.  Ignore his last off track run, Stolen will improve on his best s.p of 105.

14. Magpie in the Sand – Although at 7/1, poor recent form will see this Magpie struggling to come to grips with the requirements of being graded stakes horse.  Just outside a top 3 finish is most likely for owner gcphantom3.