14:30 Leicester

Monday 10 June 2019

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Ragdale Maiden Auction Stakes

Off time: 14:33 | Winning time: 1m 14.22s

(7)

Alibaba

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: Charlie Bennett| T: Miss J Feilden

33/1

26,000 guineas Lawman colt makes his debut for yard not known for winning juveniles as 1-51 record in recent years indicates. Others make more appeal on this occasion.

Form:

(14)

Drew Breeze

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: George Buckell⁽³⁾| T: R Spencer

22/1

Price nearly doubled to £30,000 at Breeze Up Sales earlier this year. Camacho colt out of dam who stayed middle distances. Yard yet to have a juvenile winner this term.

Form:

(9)

I'm Digby¹⁴

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: Finley Marsh⁽³⁾| T: R Hughes

12/1

£32,000 Gutaifan colt who has shown prmosie on both starts at Windsor to date and has experience advantage on a number of his rivals. Yard just 1-22 in recent weeks though.

Form: 54

(5)

Leg It Lenny

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: R Kingscote| T: R M H Cowell

8/1

Baltic King colt closely related to three individual six furlong winners. Makes racecourse bow for yard that does well with its sprinters so worth a market check at least.

Form:

(13)

Dubai Avenue

Age: 2| Weight: 9-2| J: A Kirby| T: C G Cox

6/1

26,000 euro Bated Breath colt who comes from family with plenty of speed on dam's side as well. Hails from a good yard in fair form at present and looks one of the likelier contenders on paper.

Form:

(2)

Flash Henry¹⁷

Age: 2| Weight: 9-2| J: Harry Bentley| T: George Scott

13/2

By promising first season sire Cable Bay, out of dam who won over 6f as a juvenile and is related to some smart sprint performers. Yard respectable 2-14 with 2yo's so far this term. Not disgraced on recent Goodwood debut and may do better.

Form: 5

(1)

Baileys Prayer¹⁴

Age: 2| Weight: 9-0| J: P Hanagan| T: R A Fahey

28/1

From top yard but hasn't shown much at all in two starts so far at minimum trip. Extra furlong may help but needs to take a big step forward and is hard to enthuse over.

Form: 96

(10)

Austin Taetious¹¹

Age: 2| Weight: 8-12| J: J Quinn| T: A West

150/1

2000 guineas gelded son of Archipenko who had a nightmare start to his career being pulled up when tailed off at Yarmouth recently after moving poorly through the race. Very tough task.

Form: P

(8)

Dream Isle⁹

Age: 2| Weight: 8-12| J: Toby Eley⁽⁷⁾| T: Steph Hollinshead

200/1

Tagula colt cost only £4,5000 guineas as a yearling. Not much to write home about on debut when a distant last of 10 at Doncaster earlier this month. Probably needs more time.

Form: 0

(12)

Sir Rodneyredblood

Age: 2| Weight: 8-12| J: K T O'Neill| T: J R Jenkins

100/1

Roderic O'Connor colt makes his racecourse bow and is related to a number of winners on dam's side who stayed at least 1m2f. Likely to find things happening plenty quick enough for him here.

Form:

(3)

Flight Of Thunder⁴⁶

Age: 2| Weight: 8-9| J: K Stott| T: K A Ryan

25/1

Yard has good 16% strike rate with its juveniles but this Night Of Thunder filly needs to produce more here than in her two outings so far. Extra furlong should help the cause.

Form: 87

(4)

My Motivate Girl^v⁷

Age: 2| Weight: 8-9| J: Oisin Murphy| T: A Watson| BF

4/1

Handler enjoying a purple patch and has impressive 22% strike rate with his two-year-olds. Awkward at start both outings to date but has run well despite not looking straight-forward although beaten odds-on last time out.

Form: 32

(11)

Ebony Adams²¹

Age: 2| Weight: 8-7| J: Jason Watson| T: B J Meehan

25/1

Yard's juveniles often improve for their first run so could do better here than her 9th of 12 at Windsor recently on debut. Yard has overall 12% strike rate at this track.

Form: 9

(15)

I Had A Dream

Age: 2| Weight: 8-7| J: M Dwyer| T: Tom Clover

33/1

Looks a sprinter on paper being by Dream Ahead out of a Kyllachy mare. Yard yet to have a juvenile winner this campaign so market may prove informative.

Form:

(6)

Zim Baby¹³

Age: 2| Weight: 8-7| J: Megan Nicholls⁽³⁾| T: Paul George

3/1

£4,000 Roderic O'Connor filly who excelled herself when 100/1 second on debut over C&D nearly two weeks ago. Every chance if able to reproduce that level and is very much respected.

Form: 2

Non-Runners

(16)

Strait Of Hormuz²

Weight: 9-5| Age: 2

T: H Palmer J: J Mitchell

Forecasts

Zim Baby (3/1), My Motivate Girl (4/1), Dubai Avenue (6/1), Flash Henry (13/2), Leg It Lenny (8/1), Strait Of Hormuz (10/1), I'm Digby (12/1), Drew Breeze (22/1), Ebony Adams (25/1), Flight Of Thunder (25/1), Baileys Prayer (28/1), I Had A Dream (33/1), Alibaba (33/1), Sir Rodneyredblood (100/1), Austin Taetious (150/1), Dream Isle (200/1)

Of those with previous experience Zim Baby did best when a good second over C&D a few weeks ago and may not be far away once again. There could be improvement though from FLASH HENRY who hinted he could win a race or two with a solid first run at Goodwood and will be suited by the extra furlong. My Motivate Girl was beaten at odds-on last time and has abilty but looks a tricky ride, while I'm Digby has run faiirly well in his two starts so far. Of the newcomers, Dubai Avenue and Leg It Lenny make most appeal.