Ripon Races Supports Racing Welfare Handicap

Off time: 20:00 | Winning time: 3m 31.79s

(4)

Stonific¹¹

Age: 8| Weight: 9-10| J: Sean Kirrane⁽⁵⁾| T: D O'Meara| OR: 77| D

10/3

Dual 2m winner at Beverley last summer. Caught the eye when sixth of 16 over 1½m at York on reappearance. Now 2 lb below last winning mark and big player back at optimum trip.

Form: 36655-6

(3)

Chocolate Box²⁶

Age: 7| Weight: 9-7| J: Tom Marquand| T: D M Loughnane| OR: 74| D

17/2

Eleven runs since last win in 2018. In decent form on AW this spring but well held back on turf for the first time in a while at Ascot last month. Cheekpieces worn on that occasion quickly discarded.

Form: 3/52238

(1)

Stormin Norman²⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 9-4| J: G Lee| T: Micky Hammond| OR: 71| C| D

5/1

Course scorer who won both Flat start in 2020. Fit from hurdling not disgraced from too far back over C&D last month and capable of having a say.

Form: 133/11-6

(5)

Justified⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 9-2| J: F Norton| T: C & M Johnston| OR: 69

7/2

Back to winning ways on Chelmsford's polytrack in April but he ran very poorly at Lingfield last week.

Form: 357-316

(2)

Contrebasse^b¹⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 8-13| J: D Allan| T: T D Easterby| OR: 66| D

9/4

Very good second of 8 on C&D return (good to soft) last month. Not in the same form at Nottingham since but respected back at this venue.

Form: 7047-25

(6)

Wynford^p,t¹²⁰

Age: 8| Weight: 8-4| J: Harrison Shaw| T: R Menzies| OR: 57| D

12/1

Little positives to draw from his efforts in varied events for Lucinda Egerton since returning to action last October but it's possible a switch to Rebecca Menzies could spark a revival.

Form: 5738/90-

Forecasts

Contrebasse (9/4), Stonific (10/3), Justified (7/2), Stormin Norman (5/1), Chocolate Box (17/2), Wynford (12/1)

This doesn't look that competitive and provides a good chance for STONIFIC to build on an encouraging reappearance run at York with the step back up to 2m likely to be very much in his favour. Contrebasse could be the one for the forecast spot if bouncing back to the form he showed when runner-up here on his penultimate outing.