17:40 Thirsk

Saturday 4 September 2021

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Jenny Roberts Millinery Handicap

Off time: 17:41 | Winning time: 58.27s

(4)

Ready Freddie Go^p³⁴

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: Harry Russell⁽³⁾| T: Ollie Pears| OR: 84| CD

4/1

2 wins from 6 runs this year. 11/2 and cheekpieces on for 1st time, career best when winning 9-runner handicap at this C&D (good) 34 days ago, kept up to work. Solid claims again.

Form: 514051

(1)

Ballintoy Harbour¹⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: G Lee| T: P T Midgley| OR: 84| D

3/1

2 wins from 6 runs this year. Latest win at Newmarket in July. Respectable eighth of 13 in handicap at York (5f, good to firm, 8/1) 17 days ago. Worth considering back down in grade.

Form: 136198

(6)

Havagomecca²²

Age: 3| Weight: 9-2| J: Connor Beasley| T: M Dods| OR: 79| BF| D

9/2

3 wins from 7 runs this year. Latest win at Ascot in July. 2/1, last of 4 in handicap at Nottingham (5f, good) 22 days ago. May yet resume progress, so not one to write off.

Form: 831314

(2)

Follow Your Heart³⁶

Age: 3| Weight: 8-11| J: K Stott| T: K A Ryan| OR: 74

11/2

Latest win at Doncaster in July. Eighth of 9 in handicap at Newmarket (6f, good, 13/2) 36 days ago. Still early days but needs to get back on track.

Form: 5-1418

(7)

Khabib¹⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 8-11| J: P Hanagan| T: R Craggs| OR: 74| D

17/2

Latest win at Beverley in July. Ninth of 11 in handicap (6/1) at Carlisle (5f, good to firm) 17 days ago, doing too much too soon. Needs to do more from this mark.

Form: 072129

(3)

Country Carnival¹⁹

Age: 3| Weight: 8-10| J: Jason Watson| T: D O'Meara| OR: 73| D

10/1

Latest win at Doncaster in July. 4/1, fifth of 6 in handicap at Windsor (5.1f, good to firm) 19 days ago, not seen to best effect. Remains on a fair mark.

Form: 346415

(8)

Tees Spirit¹⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 8-9| J: Barry McHugh| T: Adrian Nicholls| OR: 72

15/2

Tenth of 11 in handicap (7/1) at Carlisle (5f, good to firm) 17 days ago, racing closer to pace than ideal. Others more persuasive.

Form: 267320

(5)

Runninwild^h¹⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 8-8| J: Shane Gray| T: Mrs A Duffield| OR: 71

18/1

Unreliable individual. 50/1, career best when winning 12-runner handicap at Carlisle (5.8f, good to firm) 17 days ago, digging deep. Not sure to be in the same form.

Form: 617641

Forecasts

Ballintoy Harbour (3/1), Ready Freddie Go (4/1), Havagomecca (9/2), Follow Your Heart (11/2), Tees Spirit (15/2), Khabib (17/2), Country Carnival (10/1), Runninwild (18/1)

An open sprint handicap in which it's worth taking a chance on HAVAGOMECCA, who was disappointing at Nottingham last time but had previously been going the right way. Ballintoy Harbour is a big danger dropping in grade and recent C&D scorer Ready Freddie Go should play a hand if the cheekpieces continue to have a positive effect.