Ripon Racecourse Stable Staff Championships Handicap

Off time: 20:43 | Winning time: 1m 0.81s

(5)

Profitable Edge⁴⁶

Age: 3| Weight: 9-11| J: Jason Hart| T: T D Barron| OR: 67

9/4

7/1, first run since leaving John S. O'Donoghue when good second of 8 in handicap at Redcar (5f, good to firm) 46 days ago. Solid claims off the same mark but the caveat is that her best efforts so far have come on quicker ground.

Form: 45446-2

(1)

Tantalus^p⁴²

Age: 3| Weight: 9-3| J: Cieren Fallon| T: B Haslam| OR: 59

6/1

13/2, seventh of 8 in handicap at Beverley (5f, good to firm) 42 days ago. Record stands at 0-11 and he was below par on his sole previous run on a slow surface.

Form: 535227

(4)

Your Spirit²¹

Age: 3| Weight: 8-12| J: G Lee| T: P T Midgley| OR: 54

2/1

Good third of 12 in handicap at Beverley (5f, good to soft, 12/1) 21 days ago. Now 1 lb lower and while she remains winless following 13 attempts, the ability is there for her to win a race of this type.

Form: 85-6633

(3)

Jazzagal²¹

Age: 3| Weight: 8-10| J: D Fentiman| T: T D Easterby| OR: 52| CD

5/2

Respectable seventh of 12 in handicap at Beverley (5f, good to soft, 13/2) 21 days ago. Now 2 lb lower than for her breakthrough success in a C&D nursery last August and she's a big player.

Form: 17-8027

Rule 4

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Non-Runners

(2)

Sugar Hill Babe⁴

Weight: 9-5| Age: 3

T: L Williamson J: Elisha Whittington

Forecasts

Your Spirit (2/1), Profitable Edge (9/4), Jazzagal (5/2), Tantalus (6/1), Sugar Hill Babe (6/1)

JAZZAGAL was behind Your Spirit at Beverley last time but it would be unwise to read too much into that, since she was at a disadvantage racing on the near side whereas Your Spirit was on the favoured far side. Back at the scene of her nursery success off a 2 lb higher mark last summer, Tim Easterby's charge is taken to make it 2-2 over this C&D. Irish import Profitable Edge put in a good shift on debut for new connections at Redcar in June but the forecast slower ground here is a concern.