Doncaster Groundworks And Reinforcements Nursery

Off time: 13:35 | Winning time: 1m 31.76s

(3)

Ice Max²⁴

Age: 2| Weight: 9-9| J: C Lee| T: K R Burke| OR: 91| D

3/1

Made it 2-4 with a useful effort to easily see off 4 rivals in a 7f Catterick nursery (soft) 24 days ago. Bold show likely for top 2-y-o stable.

Form: 4171

(6)

Palmar Bay²³

Age: 2| Weight: 9-6| J: Rossa Ryan| T: R M Beckett| OR: 88

18/5

Progressive sort who doubled his tally in 9-runner event at Salisbury last time and looks to have been let in lightly for nursery debut. Looks the one to beat.

Form: 211

(5)

Edge Of Blue¹⁹

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: W Buick| T: C Appleby| OR: 87| D

2/1

Well-bred gelding who is unbeaten in two, having something to spare when scoring in a novice at Wolverhampton last time. More to come and makes plenty of appeal.

Form: 11

(1)

Bellarchi¹⁵

Age: 2| Weight: 9-3| J: S H James| T: Grant Tuer| OR: 85

22/1

Completed hat-trick when landing 6f Hamilton nursery in September and has held her form in the main since. Latest effort best excused and she's not completely dismissed.

Form: 114825

(2)

Miguel¹⁵

Age: 2| Weight: 8-11| J: Oisin Murphy| T: J Channon| OR: 79| D

7/2

Winner of a 7f maiden at Brighton and a 1m nursery at Ripon last month but he does need to shrug off a poor run on testing ground at York a couple of weeks ago.

Form: 23110

(4)

Bill's Baar³⁶

Age: 2| Weight: 8-7| J: J Quinn| T: A Keatley| OR: 75

16/1

Won 6-runner maiden (11/4) at Ripon (6f, good to firm) in September but wasn't in the same form at Ayr next time. Others preferred.

Form: 6415

Forecasts

Edge Of Blue (2/1), Ice Max (3/1), Miguel (7/2), Palmar Bay (18/5), Bill's Baar (16/1), Bellarchi (22/1)

PALMAR BAY is going the right way and an opening mark of 88 looks lenient, so he's marginally preferred to Edge of Blue, who also has plenty of potential. Ice Max is the pick of the others.