2:50 – My Renaissance 9/1 EW
This is a weak race and while the selection is getting on in years, he’s more than capable of taking this if he’s on a going day.
A four time winner over fences, those victories came off marks of: 80, 89, 95 & 102. The most recent of those victories came in August 2019 off 102; he’s 8lb lower today. All four of those wins came over or around today’s trip (2m-2m1.5f) on good ground, which he also gets today.
Unlike the rest of his rivals, he comes here off the back of a spin on a flat. He was well beaten off a lowly mark, but that was only a prep run for a summer jumps campaign. If you look at last season, My Renaissance suffered a 49 length defeat on his first run back but showed greatly improved form on his next start; he looked set to go very close before falling at the 2nd from home.
Dropped back into a class 5 handicap chase for the first time since July 2018, his record in this class over fences is: 1141
While all of his chase wins have come at either Sedgefield or Cartmel, Stratford shares similar characteristics to those tracks: they’re all left handed and relatively sharp. As such, the track shouldn’t be an issue.
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