French Racing Betting Tips: Our trader on Wednesday at Chantilly
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We’re offto Chantilly on Wednesday for another action-packed ten-race card live on SkySports Racing.
The French havebeen going at anything but a snail’s pace since racing’s resumption on Monday,and our man on the trading floor, Johnathan Priddey, has previewed the card forus.
PrixTexanita (13:12)
Thecentrepiece at Chantilly is the Group 3 Prix Texanita (13:12). Thissprint prize is restricted to three-year-olds only and typically throws up aclassy young speedster, with 2014 and 2015 winners Rangali and Goken laterprogressing to hit the places at Group 1 level.
It hasadmittedly been a few years since their exploits, but the current Europeansprint scene is wide open for a fresh shooter to emerge at the top.
Francis-Henri Graffard
As we try to find our bearings so early in the season, a good starting point must be to look at the trainers who have started strongly and produced their horses in condition to win first time out after the lockdown.
Francis-HenriGraffard rattledthe crossbar and came away from Longchamp and Toulouse with no winners onMonday but all four of his runners finished second.
Graffard hadalso fired in an astonishing 10 winners from his last 15 winners before Frenchracing came to an abrupt halt back in March. With that in mind, you must expecthis Prix Texanita hope Wooded to lack very little in fitness.
This son ofWooton Bassett was placed twice at Group 3 level last year despite lookingrather tall and weak and racing a little too keenly at times. Expect the older,stronger and more streetwise Wooded to take all the beating under Pierre-CharlesBoudot here.
Pia Brandt
Another trainer who carried strong pre-lockdown form into Longchamp was the excellent Pia Brandt, whose Miss Extra was an impressive winner of a three-year-old handicap on Monday.
Brandt sendsa strong party of six horses to Chantilly including Twelve Bros (10:30),who steps out of handicap company into a warm conditions race.
This fillywon at Saint-Cloud in March and may be able to use her superior race fitness tobridge the gap to classier rivals.
Brandt alsolooks to have a pair of strong chances in the sprint handicap at 14:22. MaximeGuyon will look for the gaps aboard hold-up horse Vautrin andTheo Bachelot getting the leg-up on Shams Brazileiro, who looks togo 2-2 since joining the Brandt offensive.
All oddsand markets correct as of date of publication.
