17:20 Newmarket
Friday 23 June 2023
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- 4YO plus | Class 5 | 1m | Good (Good to Firm in places) | 11 Runners | Turf | Weighed In
- Off time: 17:21 | Winning time: 1m 38.56s
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Dual winner last year and, save for a low-key reappearance in March, he hasn't done much wrong this season, again making the frame when fourth in an 8-runner Chepstow handicap (7f, good to firm) last time. Shaped better than the bare result on that occasion and live each-way chance.
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Fair form for Hugo Palmer at 2 yrs and, having missed the whole of last season, he did enough on return/debut for new yard in AW claimer to suggest that his ability remains intact. Doesn't appear to be the most straightforward, though, and others preferred for win purposes.
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Added to 2-y-o novice success when scoring on the AW in January. Put in a good shift returned to turf when third to the unexposed Lady Eros at Yarmouth (1m, good to firm) and while that filly hardly boosted the form at Royal Ascot on Wednesday, he's one to consider off 1 lb lower here.
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Bagged a couple of Salisbury handicaps last season and got her head back in front at Kempton (1m) in January. Wasn't disgraced over the same C&D recently and now 2 lb lower but she looks vulnerable nonetheless.
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Gained the latest of his 3 AW wins at Wolverhampton in February. That was off an 8 lb higher mark but, as his 0-16 record suggests, he's simply not as effective on turf.
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Successful off a 2 lb higher mark at Leicester last spring and, though winless since, he has posted a number of decent efforts in defeat. Latest third at Yarmouth (1m, good) was one of them and likely he'll be on the premises once more.
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Sole win on turf (from 19 starts) was gained in a Carlisle maiden almost 4 years ago and he hasn't made much of an impact in 3 starts for present connections.
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Form dipped badly in second half of last season and while there were positives to glean from his reappearance fourth at Newbury, he failed to back that up on the AW 10 days ago.
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Won 3 times last year and showed benefit of reappearance run when a solid second of 12 under Mia Nicholls in handicap at Newbury (1m, good to firm). Below par at Windsor since but he'll be a danger to all if able to bounce back.
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Winner of a low-grade 1m Brighton nursery for Jim Boyle last September and narrowly denied at Windsor on final start of 2022 campaign. However, he's hard to warm to judged on what he's shown in 2 starts so far this season.
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Pretty decent on his day when in the care of Saeed bin Suroor and while he has just a maiden win to his name from 23 starts and is 0-9 for this yard, the handicapper has cut him some slack and could go well if the first-time visor does the trick.
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Non-Runners
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Goddess Of Fire22
Weight: 9-9| Age: 6
T: J Ryan J: Adam Tracey
NR
Forecasts
Chief's Will (4/1), Dashing Dick (11/2), Greg The Great (6/1), Crystal Casque (13/2), Winforglory (13/2), Lost In Time (7/1), Le Reveur (17/2), Unilateralism (9/1), Fox Power (18/1), Amaysmont (20/1), Roundabout Silver (22/1), Goddess Of Fire (25/1)
It's not hard to have misgivings where GREG THE GREAT is concerned, given his yo-yo-like profile. That said, if able to bounce back from a low-key recent effort and reproduce something akin to the form he showed at Newbury last month, he will have every chance in this open-looking contest. Chief's Will didn't do much wrong returned to turf last time and he looks a threat, while Dashing Dick and Lost In Time both make some appeal from an each-way perspective.
- Chief's Will4/1
- Dashing Dick11/2
Previous Winners
Prize Money
1st: £5,234.002nd: £2,456.003rd: £1,227.004th: £614.005th: £306.00
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