Ladbrokes Fillies' Handicap

Off time: 17:45 | Winning time: 1m 27.83s

(2)

Hippeia²⁸⁴

Age: 4| Weight: 9-7| J: S H James| T: Grant Tuer| OR: 70

9/2

Six-race maiden; finished third (beaten 3½L) on her sole AW start in a C&D fillies' novice event in March 2018; off the track for 284-days, moving on from previous trainer Roger Fell.

Form: 4453/35-

(6)

Playfull Spirit^p1⁹

Age: 4| Weight: 9-6| J: R Havlin| T: J & T Gosden| OR: 69

2/1

Seven-race maiden with respectable 6f-7f form; fitted with cheek-pieces for the first time tonight and beaten only 1L by Breathtaking Look in a 6f novice event on her last visit to Gosforth Park in November.

Form: 24363-3

(3)

Elixsoft¹⁰

Age: 4| Weight: 9-2| J: Callum Rodriguez| T: R Fell & S Murray| OR: 65| CD

6/1

Proved herself as fully effective at Newcastle last winter (1,3,2,2); her handicap mark of 63 is feasible and she should improve for her recent comeback fourth to Harvest Day (her first start in eight months); chance.

Form: 32255-4

(5)

Porrima⁷^{(ex 6)}

Age: 4| Weight: 9-0| J: A Mullen| T: B Haslam| OR: 57| CD

11/4

Back to winning ways following a short break with a late thrust over C&D last week (Class 6); competes under a 6lb penalty (only due a 3lb rise); stable flying at present.

Form: 86760-1

(4)

Eponina³

Age: 5| Weight: 8-10| J: Kevin Lundie⁽⁵⁾| T: M Appleby| OR: 59

7/1

AW maiden after 13 starts - has done plenty of her racing on Fibresand at Southwell; paid the price for adopting forcing tactics at Wolverhampton on Tuesday (ran much better than her finishing position suggests); falling in the weights.

Form: 9736-60

(1)

Lucky Violet³⁰

Age: 7| Weight: 8-8| J: Jamie Gormley⁽³⁾| T: Miss L A Perratt| OR: 57| D

12/1

Productive in her homeland during July, August and September (7f-1m) but hasn't shown much in the way of sparkle on the AW (now 0-7); makes only minimal appeal despite an admittedly handy synthetics mark.

Form: 21174-7

Forecasts

Playfull Spirit (2/1), Porrima (11/4), Hippeia (9/2), Elixsoft (6/1), Eponina (7/1), Lucky Violet (12/1)

A trappy fillies' handicap. Playfull Spirit should find a race somewhere eventually for John Gosden and such is the form of the Ben Haslam stable at present last week's penalised C&D Class 6 scorer Porrima is also feared. However, the most interesting filly is the course specialist ELIXSOFT. Assuming that her recent comeback fourth to Harvest Day can be improved upon marginally, she should represent more value at the projected odds than her aforementioned rivals.