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15:20 Ripon

A. Rhodes Haulage Handicap (Class D)

  • 9 Runners
  • Distance: 1m 4f 60y
  • Going: Good to Firm
Weighed In
  • Winning Time: 2m 38.35s
  • 9 Ran
1(9)
Silk - Light Blue and Pink diamonds, Pink sleeves, Light Blue cap
11/2
  • Form 621210
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-10

led, shaken up over 3f out, ridden and headed well over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong

2(7)
Silk - Dark Blue, White star, Red sleeves, White stars, Red cap, White star
  • Form 21
  • Age 3
  • Weight 9-8

raced keenly, disputed lead, ridden and lost place over 2f out, soon weakened

3(3)
Silk - MAROON, white spots, white cap, maroon spots
  • Form 0443-31
  • Age 3
  • Weight 9-6

chased leaders, outpaced 3f out, weakened over 1f out

4(2)
Silk - Light Blue, Pink epaulets, quartered cap
  • Form 3/02-000
  • Age 6
  • Weight 9-1

dwelt, soon in touch, outpaced 5f out, ridden and weakened over 3f out, soon tailed off

5(6)
Silk - Royal Blue, Light Blue braces and sleeves, Red cap
16/1
  • Form 400150
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-1

in touch, ridden and lost place over 2f out, weakened final furlong

6(1)
Silk - Royal Blue, Green star on body and cap, hooped sleeves
25/1
  • Form 42/0-055
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-0

chased leaders, pushed along and outpaced halfway, behind final 3f

7(4)
Silk - Dark Blue and White stripes, Red sleeves, White cap
15/2
  • Form 033222
  • Age 6
  • Weight 8-12

held up, headway 4f out, stayed on to lead over 1f out, soon ridden, headed post

8(5)
Silk - Royal Blue, Yellow spots, Red sleeves
  • Form 004351
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-10

slowly into stride, held up and behind, ridden and headway over 2f out, kept on, no impression on first two

9(8)
Silk - Black, White diamond
  • Form 304441
  • Age 7
  • Weight 8-8

held up, driven and headway on inside over 3f out, hard ridden approaching final furlong, stayed on well under pressure to lead post

In depth

Verdict

A decent contest here, with inexperienced handicappers Victory Venture and Carenage likely to be warm orders in the market, taking on seasoned campaigners like Distant Cousin and Sualda and the vote goes to one of those newcomers Carenage. John Dunlop's filly has had one outing a three-year-old handicap company, when third of ten at Newbury over 10 furlongs on her penultimate start. However, when stepped up to today's trip last time at Kempton she was a revelation, taking her maiden by six lengths and looking impressive. With more to come by the look of that success, she can step up again and score here. Victory Venture has to shoulder 2lb more than the selection and that could just be the deciding factor. The Mark Johnston-trained runner was a half-length winner at Catterick last time, but won with any amount in hand and could well be good enough to win here with that in the plus column. However, the handicapper seems to have taken less of a chance with the gelding and he is marginally overlooked here. Sualda would be good enough to take this comfortably on some of his old form, but although he is off something like a winning mark, he has struggled on his two previous runs from 2lb higher and he might just find that Distant Cousin will outpoint him for a place at these weights. Piri Piri was a 10 furlong handicap winner at Folkestone last time but has to prove he stays and so the vote goes to Carenage.