Angelina Should be Banging on the D’or at Lingfield

ANGELINA D’OR should enjoy her first taste of success in the 32Red.com Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Lingfield.

Mark Johnston’s three-year-old shaped with abundant promise on her juvenile debut at Wolverhampton in late November, looking in need of the experience before coming home well to finish a never-nearer fourth over the extended mile.

It is perhaps a shade disappointing that she has not really improved massively in two starts since, but she has turned in solid efforts at Newcastle and Chelmsford, finishing second and third respectively.

She has appeared a little one paced when push has come to shove, but that should not be such an issue as she tackles a mile and a quarter for the first time and she certainly sets the standard on her return from a two-month break.

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The son of Lethal Force offered little promise in three starts in novice company, but a wind operation and a switch to handicaps saw him score with more in hand than the official winning distance of three-quarters of a length might suggest at Chelmsford on Thursday evening.

He is clearly much better than his opening mark of 52 and it is no surprise Jamie Osborne has decided to send him into battle again quickly under the mandatory penalty.

It would be no surprise to see him dominate from the front, just as he did in Essex a few days ago.