Bridge Of Sighs has big chance to break turf duck

There is a horse running today with an excellent 4-8 record on the all-weather but is 0-7 on turf and he might just prove the bet of the day – even though he is running at Brighton and not Chelmsford or Newcastle.

Bridge Of Sighs is perfectly qualified to run in the mile handicap (7.40) at Chelmsford this evening – a course and distance over which he boasts form figures of 1211 – but trainer Martin Smith is keen to keep persevering at 1m2f in the Herbert William Hall Memorial Handicap (2.50) at the Sussex venue instead.

It might prove a shrewd call as the race will certainly be easier to win, and any notion that Bridge Of Sighs does not act quite as well on turf is easy enough to refute.