Saturday sees Ripon take a rare centre stage when the
Such a healthy prize fund usually attracts the cream from the northern sprint division and the attention of the top trainers. This year is no exception with Tim Easterby, David O’Meara, Kevin Ryan, Richard Fahey, and the sprint king himself, Dandy Nicholls, all represented. Last year’s winner Damika is again in the line up, but so is the runner-up on that occasion, the Dandy Nicholls trained TAJNEED, who looked a ‘handicap good thing’ before narrowly going down by a neck
Tajneed has been in great form once more this season. The course and distance winner has been running well in good handicaps all year, never being beaten more than 6 lengths in races such as the Stewards Cup, Scottish Stewards Cup, Paddy Power Sprint and the Skybet Dash. He loves this course, and his recent second to Hoof It highlights that he is in good heart.
Pabusar and the hat-trick seeking
Newbury hosts yet another fantastic day on the flat, including the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes and the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes which features the much anticipated return of Brown Panther to UK soil.
The Geoffrey Freer Stakes rounds off the afternoon with an interesting renewal. Last year Sans Frontieres won before going on to become a group one winner. A lot of strong contenders may line up including Dandino, Harris Tweed, Fox Hunt but we will stay loyal to BROWN PANTHER, who was formidable at Royal Ascot. He looks a St Leger horse in the making, and the step up in trip should be no problem at all after hacking up over 12f in the soft ground at the royal meeting six weeks ago. He didn’t get the run of the race in Hamburg in the German Derby, and he should be able to bounce back to form here getting a lot of weight from his older rivals.
3.05 Newbury – Brown Panther
3.30 Ripon – Tajneed (Ew)
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