Today's Racing Tips: Skelton's Boom to blast home in Aintree feature

Aintree, 12:40 - Keep On Cobbling E/W, four places, @ 16/117.00

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Keep On Cobbling

• J: Elliott England
• T: Henry Daly
• F: F21/1632-3

• SBK 16/1
• EXC 5.8

With Storm Boelo moving in as I pen this column, there has to be a chance that both of tomorrow's UK meetings at Aintree and Market Rasen are in some doubt, though I'm particularly keen that the former goes ahead given I fancy a pair of that card.

Dan Skelton sends a formidable team up north for Aintree's inaugural 26/27 meeting and his rather appropriately named Brookside La is sure to be popular following an easy win on his Worcester reappearance, form that isn't working out to badly.

However, he has been bumped up 9lb for that and is now in a deeper race, so makes only limited appeal at his current Sportsbook price of 7/42.75.

The one I like the look of is nestled right at the bottom of the weights and looks to have a decent each-way shout at 16/117.00, especially as we have four places to go at.

Keep On Cobbling is unexposed at staying trips and Henry Daly's mare wasn't seen to best effect on her most recent start at Cartmel back in May.

It's probably fair to say the stable isn't fully up and running at this early stage of the season, but Daly did have one run well enough to finish third the other day and Keep On Cobbling's price looks too big too ignore.

Notable winners from Mark in recent weeks

Gustapof @ 15/2
Ugo Bingo @ 6/1
Distillate @ 7/2
Brilliant Star @ 9/4
Midnight Media @ 13/8
Rock Montreal @ 11/8
Crooked Path @ 5/4

Mark's Bet of the Day: Aintree, 15:00 - Back Boombawn @ 10/34.33

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Boombawn (Ire)

• J: Harry Skelton
• T: Dan Skelton
• F: 4438098-6

• SBK 7/2
• EXC 4

Given their strength in depth on Sunday, it's unlikely that the Skelton team will be leaving Aintree empty handed and I fancy them to land the feature Old Roan Chase with last year's fourth Boombawn.

The nine-year-old arrives fully 10lb lower in the weights than when filling the frame in that renewal and looks to have been laid out for this by his shrewd trainer having had a spin over hurdles at Chepstow earlier in the month.

Skelton has long been one of the best target trainers around and to my eye it looks like the handicapper has taken a big chance in allowing Boombawn to get in the race off a considerably lower mark than the one he competed off last year.

In fairness, his last few efforts towards the end of the 25/26 probably merited it to some extent, but it's far too soon to be writing him off, particularly with first-time cheekpieces now employed.

Boombawn hasn't won for a couple of years but looks to have been let in lightly here and I'm hopeful he can continue the good run of his powerful stable.

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