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Kempton top racing tip: Iconic Muddle can bounce back under Jamie Moore

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After landing a tasty 8/1 winner yesterday, racing pundit Steve Jones, who runs CD Systems Daily Bargain on Tipstrr, is looking for more of the same today from Gary Moore’s Iconic Muddle at Kempton.

The clear early favourite is Real Stone, whose usual winning rider, Harry Skelton, is not riding again until Thursday, while his replacement, Fergus Gillard, has never ridden a winner in nine attempts for the yard.

With the eight-year-old also seeming to prefer left-handed tracks and softer ground, he looks a bit short and the potential value elsewhere in the market brings in Iconic Muddle, whose yard has hit a rich vein of form over the last two weeks with 11 winners from 47 runners.

Five of those winners were partnered by Jamie Moore, who has a good chance of another winner here aboard Iconic Muddle, who looks poised to strike again off a mark of 124, his lowest mark since he won a handicap at Huntingdon nearly two years ago.

Since that easy win, Iconic Muddle has been very lightly raced with only a further four runs to his name. He didn't race at all last year, returning to action with a highly encouraging effort at this venue in late February, his first run since Boxing Day 2021.

Suggested bet: Iconic Muddle to win the 17:55 at Kempton

Despite the long absence, the 10-year-old managed to finish a close-up second of 11 in a Class 3 handicap over the extended two-and-a-half-mile trip.

But for racing keenly in the early stages and jumping somewhat stickily to begin with (both understandable given his lengthy absence) he would have finished closer to the winner, Lieutenant Rocco, who subsequently ran fourth of 16 in the valuable Cross Country Chase at last month's Cheltenham Festival.

Iconic Muddle ran off 125 on that return to action, so he is a pound lower today and more can be expected back at this track following a further two runs at Sandown and Plumpton, which should have put him spot on, especially as both were on softer ground than he prefers.
His top four runs have all come on right-handed tracks with three of them coming at either Huntingdon or here (both sharp, flat, right-handed tracks). His best efforts have come on good ground and he is now five pounds below his top mark.
He looks to be peaking and these are his conditions, so with both his yard and his rider in such good form, a big run looks very likely.
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