SET FOR A SUNDAY BALLY-HOO?

There have been signs of late that Philip Hobbs is emerging from a very quiet spell which makes his Ballygown Bay of interest in the Premier League Betting At 188Bet Handicap Hurdle at Plumpton tomorrow.

Having notched up over 100 winners for the last four seasons, Hobbs will be nowhere near breaking three figures this time around, which shows what a lean time he has endured.

However, the run of Gumball, who was second in a Grade One at Aintree this week, and a couple of recent winners, will have given him hope his string are through the worst of whatever was ailing them.

Ballygown Bay has only had two runs over timber, third twice, and the form of his first run at Warwick is particularly interesting.

The odds-on winner, Herewego Herewego, is now rated 132 and Ballygowan Bay was just over six lengths behind, which reads well in the context of a race of this nature.

Baddesley Knight has shaped well in two bumpers to date for Chris Gordon and can make it third time lucky in the 188Bet Live Casino Intermediate Open National Hunt Flat Race.

Behindthelines looks to have a straightforward opportunity in the Border Minstrel Novices’ Hurdle at Newcastle.

Lucinda Russell’s sixyear-old was beaten less than a length at Ayr and just a neck at Hexham, and the step up to three miles in heavy ground will suit.

Another Emotion showed up very well on his debut under rules at Chepstow last month and will not have to be a world beater to win the Ladbrokes Download The App Novices’ Hurdle at Ffos Las.