REASON TO BE CHEERFUL
Midgley’s speedy star is set to make a Dash for it
LINE OF REASON can win the argument in the Investec Dash (3.45) at Epsom today.
It’s just under a year since Paul Midgley’s speedster saw the inside of a winner’s enclosure, after landing a conditions event at Beverley.
But in the interim the seven-yearold son of Kheleyf has run some cracking races in handicap company, including during a busy campaign in Dubai at the start of the year.
Last Saturday, Line Of Reason didn’t enjoy the rub of the green in a fivefurlong handicap at York, but still wasn’t beaten far in seventh behind Copper Knight.
Competing from a handicap mark of 97 – a stone lower than at his peak – and with the benefit of a stall 15 draw, Line Of Reason has plenty going for him.
The Group 3 Investec Diomed Stakes (3.10) is a good opportunity OH THIS IS US for to continue his rise through the ranks.
The Richard Hannon-trained fouryear-old scored in Listed company at Haydock three weeks ago and, although he competes for the 20th time this afternoon, the son of Acclamation looks the type who has more to offer.
The other Group 3 event on the Derby undercard, the Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2.35), is LAUGH ALOUD. at the mercy of A three-and-a-quarter-length call at Goodwood last month was a second triumph at Listed level for Godolphin’s daughter of Dubawi, and the frontrunner should take plenty of pegging back. After a narrow defeat in Listed grade at Newmarket last time out, DESERT SKYLINE
is fancied to find compensation in the opening Investec Handicap (2.00).
The David Elsworth (above) trainee had signed off for 2016 with a dismissal of seven rivals in a Newmarket nursery last October and, with just four career starts under his belt, has untapped potential.