Music Major can hit high note at Wolverhampton

Racing: Attwater’s five-year-old will benefit from going beyond a mile

MUSIC MAJOR has a nice chance of winning for the first time this year when he takes up an engagement at Wolverhampton.

Epsom trainer Michael Attwater has done a good job with this five-year-old, who has been in pretty decent nick since he did the business at Lingfield in the autumn.

Music Major has not scored since then, but there was a bit to like about his most recent venture to the racecourse at Kempton a fortnight ago.

The gelded son of Bertolini was sent off at odds of 8-1 in a one-mile handicap and fleetingly looked like he was going to win.

But Music Major could not quite pick up when push came to shove and ended up finishing fourth behind Kingston Kurrajong.

Attwater will still have been happy with that effort as it underscored the theory that he now needs to be racing beyond a mile.

Music Major gets to prove the point in this nine-and-a-half-furlong handicap, in which he runs off the same mark of 70.

It is good to see the reappointment of Luke Morris, who was at the helm for that Lingfield success in November.

GREY DESTINY might be worth a little interest in the concluding sevenfurlong handicap.

The eight-year-old grey, trained by Anthony Brittain, was denied a course-and-distance hat-trick on January 8 when he finished fourth behind Dark Alliance in a an apprentices’ handicap.

He had previously been in sparkling form, and the way he kept going on his last spin at Dunstall Park tended to suggest he might not yet be handicapped out of the equation.

Grey Destiny is reunited with Cam Hardie, who knows him better than anyone.

OVERTOWN EXPRESS looks goods in the 188Bet Supports The Injured Jockeys Fund Handicap Chase at Chepstow. SELECTIONS: CHEPSTOW: 2.30 Dinos Benefit, 3.05 Pistol Shoot, 3.40 Marble Moon, 4.15 Overtown Express, 4.50 Billy Hicks, 5.25 Knockanrawley, 6.00 Unwin VC.

WOLVERHAMPTON: 1.00 Odyssa, 1.30 Midnightly, 2.00 Kyllachy Dragon, 2.35 MUSIC MAJOR (NAP), 3.10 Morning Skye, 3.45 Vale Of Kent, 4.20 Grey Destiny.

DOUBLE: Major Music and Overtown Express..

Picture: Getty. Luke Morris is looking to repeat his success with Music Major.