Beverley best bet: Return to mile trip can bring best from Premiership
Beverley racecourse
With several high-quality handicappers arriving in top form, this could be a cracker of a one-mile race to round off the afternoon’s proceedings at Beverley.
17:45 Beverley: Rose ‘The Flag’ Gosney Thank You Handicap (1 mile 100 yards)
No less than seven of the 12 runners are currently carrying a double-digit price, so it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that at least one of them might put themselves in the mix, with Ribkana and Brabusach both having the credentials to put themselves in the frame, especially with four places widely available.
However, if the bookies have done their homework, then the top-rated Poet’s Dawn should justify his favourite tag, and as a four-time course-and-distance winner who also won with plenty in hand at Redcar a week ago, it’s hard to argue against his short price.
That said, Hostelry carries a potent threat after back-to-back wins at Chepstow and Carlisle, and like the favourite, this promising mare has the benefit of a claiming jockey’s allowance in her favour.
Operation Gimcrack might just be another to stake a claim on handicap debut, but pick of the bunch within the Tipstrr camp is Michael Wigham’s in-form four-year-old Premiership.
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He might well have been pushing for favouritism here but for a sub-par performance when finishing third of eight at Ripon last time out 38 days ago.
That setback can probably be excused by the fact that he was asked to step up to ten furlongs from his usual mile trip, which makes his three wins from four previous outings this summer, all over a mile, much more relevant to his chances here.
This will be Premiership’s third outing for the Wigham yard since leaving Tracy Waggott in mid-summer, so now that they’ve established his optimum trip, a return to winning ways would not be a major shock here.
Suggested bet: Premiership each-way in the 17:45 at Beverley
