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Article: Betting Bureau: Silk can slay Halberd.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 4, 1999
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HOT favourite Halberd has made for an interesting market for tonight's Sporting Index Handicap (7.30) at Kempton. As an unexposed likely improver for John Gosden's stable, he can obviously win on his handicap debut, but he is too short at around 5-2, and the race is ripe for a bet.
The Newmarket maiden he won last time looked a moderate race for the track, and he still has something to prove stepping up to this sort of company.
The same cannot be said of Black Silk, who has solid handicap form ...