Well Suited to be a summer sizzler at Ayr
Ayr stages their Summer Sizzler Raceday tomorrow with an exciting seven-race card in prospect.
The novice contest could see Simon Crisford try for another winner at the track. Century Dream won six days ago and now it’s the turn for Well Suited who was just pipped on his debut at Wolverhampton.
The stable also have Discreet Hero entered in the 3.05 where he faces Keith Dalgleish’s recent course winner Dark Defender.
John McConnell has entered last Monday’s winner Lucent Dream in the 4.40 but he won’t have it all his own way against Gworn, Testa Rossa and Royal Regent.
The afternoon concludes with a trappy apprentices’ event and we’ll need to find some winners today to pay for the jolly from the cards in the UK, Ireland and France.
Colin Tizzard’s lightly-weighted Ivor’s Queen can overturn hot favour ite Bagad Bihoue under Ri c h a rd Johnson in the 3.20 at Newton Abbot.
Half an hour later, Phoenix Dawn can follow- up a taking first outing a week ago and win.
At Fairyhouse, the 2.25 can go to Boragh Steps, while in the big race in France at 1.35, it’s hard not to see Queen Mary winner Heartache again.
The price will be short, so a forecast with Frozen Angel may pay.
Back up the road, it was 70 years ago that Hamilton Park staged the first evening meeting of modern times and the next day the Lanarkshire track played host to a Royal visit of quite some proportion.
Heading the party on 19th July, 1947 was King George VI accompanied by the current Queen, then known as Princess Elizabeth, her future husband Philip Mountbatten and her sister Princess Margaret.
It was fitting that seven decades on the Queen was represented on Friday night by Call To Mind in the Listed Glasgow Stakes.
It’s a well- known fact about all the fine jockeys produced by Hawick but hats off must go to Langholm just down the A7.
Dale Irving has been flying the flag for the Muckle Toon and now he has been joined by Jamie Gormley, a young apprentice based with Iain Jardine.
Gormley is enjoying a decent spell and his boss was singing his praises after his latest win on Tor at Hamilton on Thursday where he beat hero Joe Fanning into second.
Light-weight Ivor’s Queen is a value bet for Tizzard at Newton Abbot today
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