Racecards
16:15 Ayr
Tote Bookmakers Stakes (Showcase Handicap) (Class C)
- 7 Runners
- Distance: 5f
- Going: Good, Good to soft in places on the back straight
- Form 042240
- Age 5
- Weight 9-10
towards rear, ridden over 3f out, headway over 1f out and kept on
- Form 0-00000
- Age 6
- Weight 9-4
- Trainer Miss L Perratt
- Jockey Kieren Fallon
made all, ridden over 2f out, kept on under pressure inside final furlong
- Form 645006
- Age 4
- Weight 9-3
mid-division, ridden over 2f out, weakened inside final furlong
- Form 300-064
- Age 5
- Weight 9-1
tracked leader, ridden over 2f out, soon one-paced
- Form 100104
- Age 5
- Weight 8-11
in touch, ridden over 3f out, weakened inside final furlong
- Form 600000
- Age 7
- Weight 8-9
- Trainer Miss L Perratt
- Jockey K Dalgleish
in touch, ridden 3f out, headway entering final furlong, kept on final furlong
- Form 060400
- Age 5
- Weight 8-4
- Trainer J S Goldie
- Jockey Dale Gibson
mid-division, outpaced after 2f, soon round, kept on one-paced final furlong
In depth
Verdict
Arogant Prince has been well placed to win five times this term and will prove well suited by the return to the minimum trip. Ian Semple's charge remains fairly treated and should give another good account while Absent Friends is an infrequent winner but is dropping down the weights. Gdansk is ideally served by more give underfoot but locally-trained Get Stuck In may get an uncontested lead in this smallish field and is another to consider off his current mark.