Murphy has one at value

David Murphy has tipped trots fans into one at value in today’s Ballarat card, where the trainer-driver has his hand in a large portion of the eight-race card.

Murphy told Talking Trots on Track that punters will have to wait till the last, the Eureka Concrete Pace for his best bet, when he has polemarker Athlone, $26 with TAB.com.au, stepping out from gate one.

“I fancy Athlone a fair bit. She’s in really good form,” Murphy told hosts Jason Bonnington and Blake Redden. “The right Athlone can shape this a little bit, could run a cheeky race at good odds”.

Murphy trains and/or drives seven runners, beginning with Meet Michaelangelo in the second, which streams at 2.40pm on Trots Vision.

“If he gets to the top he will be very hard to beat,” Murphy said. “Whether he is in front or behind the leader, he should give a good sight.”

He expected to cop heat from Fred Spiteri-trained Coco Lombo early, but “either way I am going to get a good sight”.

And then in race three he has the two best drawn runners, with his son Brent to steer Last Walk while he’ll take the reins of Metro Man.

Who’s the better chance?

“Probably Last Walk because he’s in better form than Metro Man at the moment, however Metro Man is pretty lightning off the gate, he’s quicker out than Last Walk. The right Metro Man, if he leads, can bowl along and keep going. The wrong one can get a bit tired a fair way out. He seems in good order, but Last Walk is going to get the last shot at him. He is a bit fitter and racing a bit better at the moment.”

Of the others, if Lorimerkylie gets “a cheap trip” in the fourth she’ll be dangerous, while of Sassys A Terror in the fifth he is “hoping to be behind the leader, she’s drawn to get up in the first three hopefully”.

And then he closes out with Harpocrates in the seventh and best bet Athlone in the last.

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