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13:20 Lingfield Park

Bet Direct On All Weather Racing Handicap (Class E3) (Class 3)

  • 13 Runners
  • Distance: 1m 5f
  • Going: Standard
  • Surface: AllWeather
Weighed In
  • Winning Time: 2m 47.39s
  • 13 Ran
1(1)
Silk - ROYAL BLUE and WHITE (quartered), RED sleeves and cap
  • Form 103100
  • Age 7
  • Weight 9-13
  • Official Rating 76

held up, never troubled leaders

3(3)
Silk - White, Pink and White striped sleeves, Pink cap
14/1
  • Form 000443
  • Age 11
  • Weight 9-10
  • Official Rating 73

keen, held up in rear, plenty to do from 2f out, ran on final furlong, nearest at finish

4(9)
Silk - Red, Black sleeves, White cap
14/1
  • Form 02140-0
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-9
  • Official Rating 72

in touch, ridden to chase leading pair over 3f out, weakened 2f out

5(12)
Silk - Light Blue, Maroon disc, Light Blue sleeves, Maroon spots, hooped cap
16/1
  • Form 314200
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-9
  • Official Rating 72

mid-division, headway 2f out, effort when short of room and hampered inside final furlong

6(7)
Silk - Maroon, Grey sash, sleeves and cap

Rome (IRE)

18 b
9/2
  • Form 554001
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-8
  • Official Rating 71

slowly into stride, soon in touch, ridden over 2f out, weakened final furlong

7(10)
Silk - Red, Beige chevrons, hooped sleeves, Red cap
  • Form 640401
  • Age 3
  • Weight 9-7
  • Official Rating 72

mid-division, ridden and headway over 2f out, weakened final furlong

8(4)
Silk - Red, Black triple diamond, White sleeves, Red cap, White diamond
  • Form 630/004
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-7
  • Official Rating 70

slowly into stride, pulled hard, held up in last, headway on outside from over 1f out, hung left inside final furlong, just failed

9(5)
Silk - Black and Red (quartered), White sleeves, White cap, Red star
9/2
  • Form 342420
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-7
  • Official Rating 70

mid-division, headway over 1f out, driven to lead inside final furlong, all out, held on

10(13)
Silk - White, Dark Blue epaulets, White sleeves, Dark Blue stars and stars on cap
  • Form 044200
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-0
  • Official Rating 63

keen, always in rear

11(11)
Silk - Dark Green, Red epaulets, Red and Dark Green hooped sleeves, Red cap
66/1
  • Form 150050/
  • Age 6
  • Weight 8-13
  • Official Rating 62

soon led, headed over 6f out, weakened 4f out

12(2)
Silk - YELLOW, ROYAL BLUE cross belts, sleeves and cap
40/1
  • Form 222400
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-11
  • Official Rating 66

tracked leaders, chased leader over 5f out, ridden and every chance over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong

13(14)
Silk - Royal Blue, Yellow star, Royal Blue sleeves, Yellow stars, Royal Blue cap, Yellow star
14/1
  • Form 400663
  • Age 5
  • Weight 8-9
  • Official Rating 58

held up towards rear, headway over 2f out, ridden and every chance over 1f out, no extra inside final furlong

14(6)
Silk - LIGHT GREEN, yellow star, dark green sleeves, yellow cap
  • Form 100006
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-8
  • Official Rating 63

tracked leader, led over 6f out, ridden and headed inside final furlong, soon weakened

2(8)
NR
  • Form 220000
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-11
  • Official Rating 74

In depth

Verdict

Rome can score again here, with Fiddlers Ford, Montecristo and True Companion worth a mention in a fairly open handicap. Rome popped in unfancied over a mile and a half here recently, showing a big improvement on anything he had shown previously to open his account. The application of first-time blinkers no doubt helped, and although it was an amateur riders' event, the time was good. So, although we would not want to go overboard about his chances here, he should go close with the step up in trip to help. Fiddlers Ford needed all of 18 furlongs to prevail at Warwick in June and the shorter distance plus an absence since then will not help his cause. True Companion is not guaranteed to get the trip but does have winning form on the Polytrack, so should not be ruled out entirely. Montecristo is actually weighted to turn the tables on Rome based on that last run here, but the latter won with such authority that he has to be supported to follow up.