Both Capuchinero and Triggered are more favourably treated now and shouldn't be far away after their good C&D runs last month. However, this can lie between South Dakota Sioux and ASH WEDNESDAY, with the latter preferred on the return to his best trip. Lequinto is also worth a look back at 7f.[Emily Weber]
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The return to 6f didn't come off at Southwell last month (minus regular tongue-tie, now refitted) but he'd found his niche in 7f handicaps on Tapeta earlier, adding to two C&D wins with a cosy one at Southwell; should cope with 5lb rise if the sprint experiment hasn't unsettled him.
Raced over further for previous yard but she found her feet over 7f for this one in the second half of 2024, her second win (over C&D) gained in emphatic fashion; has had excuses since but she's entitled to go well on her second run back from a break.
Best effort when mid-division in a 7f York maiden as 2yo; two heavy defeats as a 3yo, including on handicap debut at Salisbury in August; has had wind surgery since and now goes in cheekpieces; risky.
Three course wins, at 7f and about 1m (most recently in June 2023) but campaigned as a sprinter now and this is his first 7f run for over two years; not ruled out all the same; has run well in blinkers, first-time cheekpieces today.
Out of sorts this winter but he's well treated now and his latest Kempton run was more promising; has done his AW winning, at 7f and 6f, on that track though and a winning revival is most likely to come back there.
Sole win came in 5f AW novice but he was involved in three tight finishes three times last summer and ran his best race of the winter over 6f here last month; not so good on this track since and has a trip query in only his second 7f handicap, the first since 2yo days.
Has returned from a break in fine form and he made it 2-2 over C&D since the autumn when winning emphatically in January; coped well with the stiffer task at Kempton since when up in the weights against an unexposed one, and he looks a danger again.
Losing AW run goes back to late 2023 but her C&D defeat last month was a narrow one, with two next-time winners just behind; she can go well fresh and has place prospects.
Two C&D wins in 2023 and after a rather up-and-down 12 months he came home strongly, after being slow to pick up, to finish just behind Capuchinero on this track last month; on the premises reunited with Billy Loughnane.
Ended his latest campaign with heavy defeats, following a 1m2f classified win at Brighton in August; has no great fondness for the AW and he looks unlikely back from a break over an inadequate trip.
1/5 Odds Place 1,2,3
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