Racecards
14:00 Sandown Park
Pentax Perfectionist Digital Nursery Handicap (Class D)
- 6 Runners
- Distance: 5f 6y
- Going: (Round: Good, Good to Soft places, Sprint: Good to Soft)
- Form 003025
- Age 2
- Weight 9-7
- Trainer Mrs P Dutfield
- Jockey R Havlin
chased leaders, ridden over 1f out, not reach first two
- Form 136235
- Age 2
- Weight 9-4
- Trainer J A Osborne
- Jockey Pat Eddery
soon steadied rear, effort to chase leaders over 1f out, went 2nd inside final furlong, edged right under pressure, no impression
Phluke
22- Form 622
- Age 2
- Weight 9-4
- Trainer R Johnson Houghton
- Jockey S Carson
behind, hard ridden 2f out, weakened
- Form 422
- Age 2
- Weight 9-3
- Trainer R Hannon
- Jockey Richard Hughes
chased leaders, ridden 3f out weakened 2f out
- Form 60022
- Age 2
- Weight 8-6
- Trainer Mrs L Stubbs
- Jockey S Whitworth
led 1 1/2f, ridden to lead again over 2f out, clear approaching final furlong, ran on well
In depth
Verdict
An interesting nursery, one in which Letsimpress might just be able to get back to winning ways. Turning to his rivals and Rehia has won a Leicester seller but has performed with credit subsequently in a Kempton nursery. Eastern Pearl put up a best-yet performance to get to within a length of Johnny Parkes last time, so is improving, as you would expect juveniles to be doing at this time of year. St Regs has found one too good for him in each of his last two outings but the form is solid in the context of this race. Phluke has a fairly similar profile, while the selection's form has tailed off in his last two outings after having been considered good enough, when he first came over from Ireland, for Royal Ascot before that. All The More has also been performing with credit but might just be vulnerable off topweight. It's a tight little affair but, with his stable in such good form, we'll opt for Letsimpress.