Racecards
18:35 Salisbury
Gamebookers.Com Nursery Handicap (Class E) (Class E)
- 12 Runners
- Distance: 6f
- Going: Good, Good to Soft in places
Bibury Flyer
12- Form 226120
- Age 2
- Weight 9-7
- Trainer M R Channon
- Jockey Ted Durcan
held up in rear, ridden and headway on rail over 1f out, short of room inside final furlong, not recover
Street Cred
13- Form 100
- Age 2
- Weight 9-6
- Trainer A M Balding
- Jockey M Dwyer
mid-division, ridden and weakened over 1f out, soon tailed off
- Form 041
- Age 2
- Weight 9-2
- Trainer J R Jenkins
- Jockey W Ryan
mid-division, ridden 3f out, weakened 1f out
- Form 05333
- Age 2
- Weight 9-0
- Trainer D R C Elsworth
- Jockey J Fortune
bumped start and held up in mid-division, effort and short of room 3f out, ridden to lead 1f out, ran on well final furlong
- Form 645
- Age 2
- Weight 9-0
- Trainer M Blanshard
- Jockey F Sweeney
held up towards rear, ridden 3f out, soon weakened
Avertigo
23- Form 532
- Age 2
- Weight 8-11
- Trainer W R Muir
- Jockey S J Drowne
mid-division, ridden 3f out, soon weakened
- Form 030225
- Age 2
- Weight 8-11
- Trainer D Ffrench Davis
- Jockey D Holland
held up in touch, ridden and headway to lead 2f out, headed 1f out, weakened final furlong
- Form 1651
- Age 2
- Weight 8-10
outpaced towards rear early, soon ridden, stayed on final furlong
- Form 062252
- Age 2
- Weight 8-8
- Trainer J Portman
- Jockey Dane O'Neill
led, ridden 3f out, headed 2f out, weakened final furlong
Sastre (IRE)
30- Form 040
- Age 2
- Weight 8-2
- Trainer P Phelan
- Jockey J F McDonald
tracked leader, ridden 3f out, weakened over 1f out
In depth
Verdict
Bibury Flyer can shrug off topweight in the nursery, with Treat Me Wild, Ridder and Avertigo other leading players. It often pays to support the topweight in these juvenile handicaps and in Bibury Flyer, Mick Channon has the right ammunition. The filly has been keeping good company and ran with credit in Newbury's Super Sprint before scoring at Doncaster. Pundits reckoned that she may have been feeling the effects of a busy campaign when last of nine at Redcar last time, but surely her trainer would not be running her here if that was the case. We shall give her the benefit of the doubt and take her to bounce back. Treat Me Wild got the better of useful yardstick The Crooked Ring at Kempton and will be a danger to all, while Ridder, behind the latter earlier at the same track looks held but should again be there or thereabouts. Avertigo ran out of steam close home at Leicester and is yet another to consider, but Bibury Flyer had good form earlier in the season and is the pick.