BresBet Supports Rising Stars Classified Stakes

Off time: 15:21 | Winning time: 2m 32.27s

(3)

Clooney⁷

Age: 8| Weight: 10-2| J: Aidan Keeley⁽⁵⁾| T: R Woodman| OR: 45

28/1

Modest gelding. Creditable 8½ lengths seventh of 12 to Greek Giant in minor event (33/1) at Lingfield (12f, AW) 7 days ago. Clearly has work to do.

Form: 607/867

(4)

Greek Giant⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: N Callan| T: E A L Dunlop| OR: 50| D

2/7

Modest gelding. Career best when winning 12-runner minor event (10/11) at Lingfield (12f, AW) 7 days ago, impressively. It'll be disappointing should he fail to deliver the goods once more.

Form: 974421

(1)

Angel De Luz^b1¹⁵

Age: 3| Weight: 9-1| J: Billy Loughnane⁽³⁾| T: Miss A Murphy| OR: 44

9/1

Modest filly. 9/1 and cheekpieces on for 1st time, creditable fifth of 11 in handicap at Leicester (10f, good to firm) 15 days ago. Blinkers on 1st time and she will need to raise her game in order to trouble Greek Giant.

Form: 099-435

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Optik^b²¹

Age: 3| Weight: 9-1| J: J P Spencer| T: D M Simcock| OR: 47

9/2

Lightly-raced maiden. Second of 8 in handicap (9/2) at Wolverhampton (12.2f) 21 days ago, not ideally placed. Appears to be now getting the hang of things and he's the one most likely to make a race of it with Greek Giant.

Form: 000-42

Forecasts

Greek Giant (2/7), Optik (9/2), Angel De Luz (9/1), Clooney (28/1)

The step up to this trip sparked improvement in GREEK GIANT at Lingfield last week where he landed a classified event with minimum fuss. On that evidence, he is one to keep on side and should prove hard to beat. Optik is preferred to Angel de Luz for forecast purposes.