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17:10 Pontefract

Knottingley Handicap (Class D)

  • 13 Runners
  • Distance: 1m 4f 8y
  • Going: Good to Firm, Good in places
Weighed In
  • Winning Time: 2m 37.93s
  • 13 Ran
1(11)
Silk - Red and Yellow (halved), White cap
  • Form 43-1
  • Age 3
  • Weight 9-7

towards rear, headway over 3f out, soon ridden, weakened inside final furlong

2(9)
Silk - White, Black sash and sleeves
  • Form 442-215
  • Age 3
  • Weight 9-7

towards rear, ridden on outer over 3f, kept on one pace final 2f

3(2)
Silk - White, Royal Blue epaulets, White sleeves, Red spots, Royal Blue cap
10/3
  • Form 454-
  • Age 3
  • Weight 9-6

always prominent, ridden approaching 4f, headway over 2f, kept on to lead inside final furlong

4(4)
Silk - Yellow, Beige sleeves, White cap

Arcalis

13
6/1
  • Form 55061-0
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-13

in touch, ridden and headway over 2f out, kept on same pace final furlong

5(7)
Silk - PINK, BLACK sleeves, PINK stars, BLACK cap, PINK star
50/1
  • Form 0306-6
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-10

chased leaders and keen, effort 4f out, soon behind and tailed off

6(6)
Silk - YELLOW, WHITE star, WHITE cap, YELLOW star

Mellino

18
16/1
  • Form 40460-3
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-10

mid-division, ridden approaching 2f out, weakened final furlong

7(13)
Silk - Maroon, Silver sleeves, striped cap
  • Form 05-0044
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-9

mid-division, ridden and headway over 3f out, challenged over 2f, soon weakened

8(1)
Silk - Black, White diamond, halved sleeves and diamond on cap
7/1
  • Form 0340-22
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-7

led, ridden over 2f out, headed inside final furlong, no extra

9(3)
Silk - Red, black collar and cuffs, old gold cap
40/1
  • Form 02650-
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-7

towards rear, never dangerous

10(5)
Silk - White, Yellow and Black chevrons on sleeves, quartered cap
13/2
  • Form 0060-13
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-5

chased leaders, ridden approaching 2f out, kept on same pace final furlong

11(12)
Silk - Yellow, Light Green diamond, sleeves and diamond on cap
  • Form 054512
  • Age 3
  • Weight 7-12

held up in rear, ridden and headway on outer over 2f, kept on well inside furlong to take 2nd close home

12(8)
Silk - ROYAL BLUE, PINK chevrons, ROYAL BLUE cap
33/1
  • Form 530034
  • Age 3
  • Weight 7-12

mid-division and keen, stumbled 4f out, soon ridden, behind final 2f

13(10)
Silk - ROYAL BLUE, YELLOW star, chevrons on sleeves, ROYAL BLUE cap, YELLOW star
100/1
  • Form 056023
  • Age 3
  • Weight 7-12

prominent, driven 5f out, weakened over 2f

In depth

Verdict

Plenty of potential improvers in a tricky race with Cara Fantasy just preferred ahead of Border Tale, Banningham Blaze and Field Spark. John Dunlop's Cara Fantasy is bred to appreciate middle distances and showed she had progressed through the winter when making a winning return in an ordinary maiden at Leicester earlier in the month. The daughter of Sadler's Wells looks capable of making significant improvement this term and gets the vote to follow up on her handicap debut. Border Tale represents solid handicap form after finishing a close second over this trip at Ripon last time and looks sure to give another good account. Beverley winner Banningham Blaze found ten furlongs too sharp last time and will prove more effective over her optimum trip while Field Spark comes here in good heart and can't be dismissed off a low weight.