Data Protection's profile suggests he needs
Good To soft or quicker
Distance of 7f-9f
Needs to race in high summer, June, July, August
Needs to wear a tongue tie
Needs single figure fields
Official rating less than 80.
That is what Data Protection needs. The key is his opposition.
Data Protection had these conditions when second to Surrey Hope.
Surrey Hope's form.
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Surrey Hope was a very inconsistant horse but just 12 months before that win at Epsom he had been rated in the 90s. His first two races for Hughie Morrison didn't alert us to what was to come. But the handicapper took a major chance dropping Surrey Hope 6lbs to 80 which meant he could run in a 0-80. He was 2-3 in 0-80 before that race. Here we had a horse that was third in a 0-100 off 96 in May 2018 and third off 95 in a 0-95 carrying 9-7, now carrying 9-12 in a 0-80. The horse's profile suggested he needed a distance of 7f-8f and good or good to firm ground.
It may have looked the day for Data Protection but doing the work on the race found Surrey Hope and that meant the race was swerved. A waste of time. Absolutely not.