Make this a Miracle

Miracle Ninetynine looks a worthy player when he steps back up to a mile at Kempton tomorrow.

The five-year-old gelding has had a rather nomadic career thus far, having previously been in the care of Richard Hannon and Irish trainer John James Feane.

He is now under the capable guidance of Ed Vaughan, for whom he came quite close to making a dream debut at Chelmsford on January 5.

The gelded son of Big Bad Bob was clearly not fancied in a decent enough seven-furlong handicap, yet he hugely outran odds of 25-1 to finish third behind Hakam.

Indeed, he would probably have got much closer to the winner on that occasion had his path not been significantly blocked inside the final furlong.

But once daylight did appear, the manner in which Miracle Ninetynine finished off his race under Tom Marquand tends to suggest the return to a mile for the Matchbook Exchange-sponsored handicap could be just the ticket.

Wedgewood Estates could be available at a fair old price in the opening six-furlong handicap and could well be the one as she attempts to cash in on a fair handicap mark.