18:55 Leicester

Tuesday 4 September 2018

All16:5517:2517:5518:2518:5519:25

River Soar Fillies' Handicap

Off time: 18:58 | Winning time: 1m 12.16s

(7)

Charming Guest⁸^{(ex 6)}

Age: 3| Weight: 9-9| J: B A Curtis| T: M R Channon| OR: 71| D

9/2

Bounced back to her best in no uncertain terms when winning comfortably at Epsom (6f, soft) last week. Much different conditions under a penalty here but will be a player for sure if in the same mood.

Form: 156831

(5)

Bella Ferrari^h¹⁹

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: Jim Crowley| T: George Scott| OR: 75| D

9/4

Off the mark at the sixth attempt at Yarmouth (6f, good to soft) three weeks ago when making all off a 6lb lower mark. Quicker conditions here but early days and should be plenty more to come.

Form: 0-24361

(2)

Gisele's Angel¹⁰

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: J F Egan| T: Jane Chapple-Hyam| OR: 75

16/1

She has clearly been quite difficult to train and has changed hands a few times already. Ran well on her last start in novice company here (5f) in Jul;y but completely bombed out on handicap debut at Newmarket last time. Same mark here down in grade

Form: 1-326

(6)

Peggie Sue⁴^{(ex 6)}

Age: 3| Weight: 9-5| J: Toby Eley⁽⁷⁾| T: A West| OR: 67| D

5/2

Thriving at present and followed up her Wolverhampton win (6f, AW) with a comfortable success at Sandown (5f, good to soft) last Friday. Up another 6lbs but no saying when the improvement will end and leading claims once more.

Form: 107211

(1)

Cale Lane¹⁸

Age: 3| Weight: 9-2| J: D Allan| T: J D Bethell| OR: 70| BF| D

4/1

Won on handicap debut at Doncaster but unable to back that up off this 5lb higher mark at Nottingham last time. Still early days and there should be more to come but needs to bounce back.

Form: 43317

(3)

Sparkalex²¹

Age: 3| Weight: 8-13| J: William Carver⁽⁷⁾| T: C Allen| OR: 67| C

25/1

A novice winner on her third start on the turf here but didn't seem to handle the Newcastle surface on her handicap and AW debut. Bombed out again at Chelmsford last time and now has questions to answer before being of interest.

Form: 02166

(8)

Dreamboat Annie²³

Age: 3| Weight: 8-9| J: Darragh Keenan⁽⁷⁾| T: M D I Usher| OR: 63| CD

25/1

C&D winner on fast ground who was disappointing here last time. Riders claim should help here but needs to put best foot forward to be involved.

Form: 767146

Non-Runners

(4)

Indian Tygress²²

Weight: 9-8| Age: 3

T: J R Fanshawe J: George Wood

Forecasts

Bella Ferrari (9/4), Peggie Sue (5/2), Indian Tygress (3/1), Cale Lane (4/1), Charming Guest (9/2), Gisele's Angel (16/1), Dreamboat Annie (25/1), Sparkalex (25/1)

Charming Guest won well at Epsom last week but that race fell apart a bit on soft ground and has different conditions here. Indian Tygress has plenty of potential going handicapping off what looks a good mark. Clear preference though is for PEGGIE SUE who is thriving at present and won with plenty to spare at Sandown on Friday. She is a strong fancy to complete the hat-trick.