16:55 Lingfield

Saturday 16 September 2023

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Off time: 16:56 | Winning time: 1m 22.95s

(13)

Distinguished Lady⁸

Age: 3| Weight: 9-10| J: Callum Shepherd| T: Darryll Holland| OR: 76

9/2

6/1, good second of 11 in handicap at Kempton (6f) 8 days ago. Draw could have been kinder but still merits respect.

Form: 357772

(4)

Cloud Cover³³

Age: 3| Weight: 9-8| J: T P Queally| T: J Tate| OR: 74| D

15/2

Lightly-raced winner. Career best when making a winning handicap debut at Wolverhampton (7f, 11/4) 33 days ago, just holding on. Unexposed sort who could easily have more to offer. Player.

Form: 2541

(12)

Saturnalia^p1¹⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 9-8| J: Cieren Fallon| T: R Hughes| OR: 74| CD

9/4

Career best when winning 13-runner handicap over this C&D 17 days ago. Cheekpieces on first time. Has quite a solid AW record and a 2 lb nudge is unlikely to prevent him making a bold bid if stall 12 isn't too big an inconvenience.

Form: 675621

(7)

Okami²⁴

Age: 3| Weight: 9-8| J: J Mitchell| T: R Varian| OR: 74| D

3/1

Two wins from 6 runs this year. 8/1, career best when winning 11-runner handicap at Kempton (7f) 24 days ago. Should give another good account.

Form: 393151

(2)

No Saint²⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: Dylan Hogan| T: M L W Bell| OR: 73| D

22/1

Ninth of 11 in handicap (40/1) at Pontefract (6f, good) 27 days ago.

Form: 33-4189

(8)

Creative Style^b¹¹

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: L Morris| T: A Watson| OR: 73| D

22/1

Winner at Wolverhampton in June. Creditable third of 6 in handicap at Hamilton (6f, good to firm, 8/1) 11 days ago.

Form: 194343

(9)

Ellexis^t¹⁸

Age: 3| Weight: 9-6| J: Paddy Bradley⁽³⁾| T: R A Teal| OR: 72| CD

40/1

C&D winner. 100/1, last of 13 in handicap at Newbury (7f, good to firm) 18 days ago, not ideally placed. Not easy to make a case for.

Form: 41-5780

(3)

Capuchinero²²

Age: 4| Weight: 9-4| J: H Crouch| T: Alice Haynes| OR: 67| D

12/1

Hooded first time, last of 13 in handicap (18/1) at Newmarket (7f, good to firm) 22 days ago. Creditable fourth at Wolverhampton on yard debut prior to that and also a dual AW winner when trained in Ireland.

Form: 470740

(1)

Bobby On The Beat⁹¹

Age: 5| Weight: 9-2| J: Josephine Gordon| T: P S McEntee| OR: 65| C| D

40/1

Course winner in April. 7/2, fourth of 5 in handicap at Leicester (5f, good to firm). Off 91 days. Significantly up in trip.

Form: 416224

(11)

Wake Up Harry³¹

Age: 5| Weight: 9-2| J: William Carver⁽³⁾| T: S Dow| OR: 65| C

22/1

Course winner. Eleven runs since last win in 2021. Off 5 months, last of 11 in handicap (40/1) at Kempton (7f) 31 days ago. Can only watch after that.

Form: 78-4260

(10)

Kangaroo⁶⁶

Age: 3| Weight: 8-12| J: Molly Presland⁽⁷⁾| T: P S McEntee| OR: 64

100/1

Lightly-raced maiden. 18/1, ninth of 12 in handicap at Kempton (1m) 66 days ago. First run for yard after leaving Tom Clover. Has work to do.

Form: 35579

(5)

Abravaggio¹⁵

Age: 3| Weight: 8-11| J: J F Egan| T: P W Chapple-Hyam| OR: 63| BF| D

8/1

Latest win at Yarmouth in August. 9/4, disappointing when only eighth of 12 in handicap at Thirsk (1m, good to soft) 15 days ago. Others more persuasive.

Form: 661138

Non-Runners

(6)

Dicko The Legend¹⁷

Weight: 8-10| Age: 3

T: R Ingram J: Rhiain Ingram

Forecasts

Saturnalia (9/4), Okami (3/1), Distinguished Lady (9/2), Cloud Cover (15/2), Abravaggio (8/1), Capuchinero (12/1), Dicko The Legend (16/1), No Saint (22/1), Creative Style (22/1), Wake Up Harry (22/1), Ellexis (40/1), Bobby On The Beat (40/1), Kangaroo (100/1)

Perhaps best to focus on the 4 last-time-out winners at the top of the weights. CLOUD COVER has the potential for better still on the back of her Wolverhampton handicap debut success and gets a narrow verdict from a handy inside stall. The chief threat may come from Roger Varian's Okami who has fared better with the draw than Saturnalia and Distinguished Lady.