The Inside Track

Thursday 13^th September

Epsom

4.15 – Cravat 1pt win 12/1 generally

There is a small, but select group of trainers that do well with horses that they acquire from other stables.  Ed de Giles is now in that bracket, and in Cravat he has a potentially really interesting new recruit to his team.
This time last year he won a competitive class 3 handicap at Chester off a mark of 85, and started this season off 91.  In all honesty Cravat has shown nothing this year, but this has resulted in his mark tumbling down to 72.
Ed de Giles paid 24,000 for him at the Doncaster Sales in August, and I’m pretty sure that this horse will be winning races over the coming months.  Today’s race looks weak, and conditions will be fine, so it just depends whether today is a fact finding mission, or whether they have him ready to go.  At around 12/1 it is worth taking the risk, either way he is certainly a horse to keep an eye on over the coming weeks.