NAP of the Day: Kudos to Caprelo at Kempton

The racing week starts with four scheduled meetings across Britain and Ireland as Flat meetings at Kempton (AW), Ayr and Windsor are joined by a jumps offering from Ballinrobe.

There are 28 races in total across the afternoon and into the evening and I've selected my Monday NAP of the Day, an improving four-year-old for the Hughie Morrison team that is fancied to make it two wins in his last three outings.

All-weather racing kick-starts the new week, with Kempton's card first to get underway on Monday afternoon.

One of the more appealing prospects set to run at the Sunbury-on-Thames venue is CAPRELO for trainer Hughie Morrison, as the Ulysses colt goes in search of his second success at Kempton.

He had three runs in the second half of 2023 as a three-year-old and failed to make any major inroads.

But after a break from December onwards, he came out over 1m3f at this venue in April and justified market prominence score on his handicap debut.

He was always handily placed that evening and Rob Hornby's partner picked up in good style when asked to see off main market rival Sir Galahad.

Following that win, he went to Windsor (1m3½f, good to firm) in May and ran well from a 5lb higher mark, held up this time off the pace and coming through to challenge and finish second, although he was unable to bridge the gap to all-the-way winner Lucentio.

That John & Thady Gosden-trained winner has gone in again at Windsor in his only start since.

17:00 Kempton Odds

Caprelo, for his part, has had another short break and should be nicely freshened up now as he bids to defy what is just a 1lb higher mark back on the Polytrack compared to that last start at Windsor.

This is just his third time in a handicap and there is good reason to suspect he will prove better than a mark of 75 before too long.

The filly Pure Of Heart is a possible danger as the handicapper has given her some chance, while the James Fanshawe-trained Environment Amigo is another to note.

The gelded son of Golden Horn showed a bit more at Southwell last month in a first-time tongue-tie on his return from a wind operation and could have more to give now moving into handicaps.

All things considered however, Caprelo has done the best of these so far and retains enough scope to believe he can hold the aces again at Kempton Park, with the slight increase in trip likely to serve him well.

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