Wentworth Park preview, best bets & quaddie tips | April 19, 2023

Best Bet: Wyndra All Class (Race 6)

This girl has been nothing short of a sensation for Brian and Sue Barton. Daniel Gatt puts the polish on her and has placed her superbly to get into this fourth-and-fifth-grade race. She should be a short-priced favourite again in this race and is a great anchor for you multis and quaddie. She gave nothing else a chance in the Group 3 Ambrosoli, pinging the lids and racing away with a three-length win in the flying time of 29.44 and did it again last week. She has 13 wins and five placings from her 25 starts at Wentworth Park and has a good record of one win and two seconds from the outside box. She showed here last week just what she can do when there is not much pace in the race and she gets a very similar field again.

Danger: Doonan
There really isn't one unless Doonan can find his very best form fresh. He was a very talented youngster, but injury has curtailed what could have been an extraordinary career. He is first-up after a five-month break and the Lord kennels will have him primed to go; however, we're not sure he can match the speed of Wyndra, or run the time first-up to catch her.

Next Best Bet: Kiss Me Kev (Race 4)

This exciting youngster is by Aston Dee Bee out of Precious Lulu, who was a good race bitch herself. This boy ran third on debut at the ultra-competitive Coonamble carnival and since then has strung together six wins on the trot including an impressive Wenty Park debut last week. He almost went under the lids he was so very quick early, running a 5.37 first section – that's top-grade pace. He did get a bit tired in the run to the line, but that was his first full 500m race and he will have undoubtedly taken a fitness benefit out of that race. If he begins like he did last week, he'll be in front again at the first turn and will take an enormous amount of running down.

Danger: Fernando Quality
Owned by jockey Brenton Avdullah and trained by Michelle Sultana, he has amassed a very respectable four wins and a second from his five career starts. He put away key rival Where's Bonbon comfortably last start, and if he can just stay in touch with Kev early, he could be too strong late.

Best Each Way: Double Polka (Race 9)

This girl has been going great guns since a mix-up at The Gardens at the start of the month. She has been racing as though 500m will suit her and in this restricted-wins class she gets in well class-wise for her city debut, having had the maximum three wins. Box eight should also suit even though she has never had the pink rug before. She is one win and four placings from five goes out of box seven, so handles wide draws. There is not an abundance of early pace in this race, which will help as she takes a little while to wind up but has a nice turn of paw when she gets going. The inside division will likely hold most of the market and this should allow her to get out to very nice each-way odds.

Best Roughie: Red Hot Frankie (Race 7)

Frankie is one of our favourites, and hasn't she run into a red hot free-for-all race here? The last two Golden Easter Egg champs, Simply Limelight and She's A Pearl, line up along with Egg finalist Elle Yeah. Aston Barak, who can do anything when he is feeling like it, draws the red and Jack Smith's exciting Royal Nangar is there as well. However, Red Hot Frankie was only beaten two lengths by the fastest greyhound in NSW at the moment, Mortified, last week and was taking ground off her in the run to the line. She clocked 29.59 on her own. If she gets an ounce of luck from the boxes early, she can certainly challenge for the lead and will then hope the Egg champ finds a bit of traffic tonight.