Steel speed can counter wide tendency in BetGoodwin final
BROADWAY STEEL gives his rivals a chance by running ultra-wide but an unbeaten run through the event is on the cards when Sean White's charge lines up for the £3,000 BetGoodwin Series Maiden Sprint final over 253m at Oxford (7.51).
There is little doubt he is the quickest in the field as twice he has forfeited significant ground from halfway by steering an erratic course and twice he has corrected himself to win a shade more comfortably than winning margins of a length might suggest.
Nans Gretta, who give him a good race in the semis seven days ago, once again shapes as the chief threat.
BetGoodwin prices: T1 Savana Spiderman 8-1, T2 Makeit Les 7-2, T3 Yahoo Maizy 7-1, T4 Nans Gretta 9-4, T5 Broadway Steel 11-8, T6 Danas Best 8-1.
Jonathan Kay
A full open card at Oxford also features six heats of the BetGoodwin Series Maiden Cup over 450m with some promising sorts on show including Kim Billingham-Hine's Phoenix Posh (6.04), Liz McNair's Queen Sinead (6.39) and Maxine Locke's Droopys Prefect (6.56) who rather annoyingly flew round when clocking 26.57sec in a trial to give the game away!
Pick of the one-off Oxford opens is a 650m contest at 9.01 in which McNair's Queen Georgia (9.01) is preferred to Golden Palace.
There are also UK Saturday SIS meetings at Doncaster (morning and evening) plus Towcester while the highlight of the day is the Irish Derby final card at Shelbourne Park which is previewed by Ian Fortune through the link below.
The scheduled fixture at Youghal has been transferred to Tuesday evening.
Broadway Steel (nap)
T5 Oxford 7.51
Jonathan Kay