Runners across three meetings for our columnist on Saturday. Check out his thoughts.<\/p>\n
Ripon14:45 Airman<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a horse who just needs to find his form again. He\u2019s one we\u2019ve always liked but he\u2019s had a few issues along the way. We\u2019re happy with him at home now and his handicap mark is slipping but we just need him to get his confidence back and get going forward again.<\/p>\n
14:45 Havana Rum<\/p>\n
It can be a case of horses for courses at Ripon and he has won there so that\u2019s a positive. Look, he has to step up on what he\u2019s shown of late to win this but he has a decent draw in ten and we\u2019ll see what happens. His course know-how could be a big advantage.<\/p>\n
15:20 Azure Zain<\/p>\n
He\u2019s going to be a nice horse one day but whether he\u2019s man enough for a test like the Great St Wilfrid at this stage of his career we\u2019ll see. I was a little surprised he got in off 83, he wouldn\u2019t have a couple of years ago, and the run at Wolverhampton the other day will have done him the world of good. It\u2019s just at the back of my mind that he might need a bit more time before he\u2019s able to show us what he\u2019s really capable of.<\/p>\n
15:20 Prince Of Pillo<\/p>\n
A funny little horse who has good and bad days and they are very far apart. He\u2019s either desperate or very competitive in his races with nothing in between. He\u2019s in good nick at home and I hope it\u2019s one of his better days on Saturday.<\/p>\n
15:20 Rock Opera<\/p>\n
I was delighted with his run in the Sky Bet Dash when third behind Elmonjed. Ethan Tindall gave him a lovely ride there and keeps the mount on Saturday. I\u2019m happy with stall 14 and while if you\u2019d have told me he\u2019d be a single-figure price for the Great St Wilfrid at the start of the season I\u2019d have thought you were nuts, he has been running well all year. Hopefully he does so again.<\/p>\n
15:50 Sailthisshipalone<\/p>\n
He\u2019s another one I\u2019m looking to get back on track. He\u2019s down grade after we\u2019ve set him some quite tough tasks of late. He\u2019s capable of getting competitive in something like this but wasn\u2019t at his best at Wolverhampton last time and I need him to bounce back.<\/p>\n
Join The Sporting Life Racing Club in one click<\/a><\/p>\n Newmarket15:15 Awaafi<\/p>\n I thought she\u2019d run well on handicap debut at this track last time but was a fraction disappointed when she finished second to Azleet. Her connections are keen to step her up to seven furlongs so we\u2019re giving that a try and we do know she handles the track. If she stays I hope she runs well but she\u2019s up three pounds in a warm little heat.<\/p>\n Doncaster16:50 Way Of The Will<\/p>\n She\u2019s a big filly, in fact she\u2019s massive, she could be 16.3 hands. As you\u2019d expect she\u2019s taken a while to come together and mature but is getting there now. I thought she ran well first time out at Redcar and will come forward for that. Whether by enough to win this I wouldn\u2019t know but it\u2019s great to get her out and get her racing and she should improve with each run.<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Runners across three meetings for our columnist on Saturday. Check out his thoughts. Ripon14:45 Airman He\u2019s a horse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}