The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Elarqam set to strike Salisbury Sovereign gold
RACING: Johnston’s colt can make up for lost time by breaking duck for season
ELARQAM can start to make up for lost time with his first victory of the season in the Tattersalls Sovereign Stakes at Salisbury.
For a colt that started the season with such lofty expectations, it can be said 2018 has been a disappointment.
Little has gone to plan for the threeyear-old from the time trainer Mark Johnston could not get a race into him before the Qipco 2000 Guineas.
He ran creditably to take fourth place behind Saxon Warrior at Newmarket and hopes were high he would run even better in the Irish equivalent.
His run was too bad to be true at the Curragh and he was found not to be quite 100% afterwards.
Trying him over a mile and a quarter at York did not quite work out, but it was only in the closing stages he was headed by Thundering Blue after making the running. Positive tactics back over a mile might prove the answer in this Group Three heat.
LORELINA can cope with a 4lb rise for winning at Chester where she was the only mare taking on geldings.
That race was two months ago but Andrew Balding is sure to have her primed for a return to action in the EBF Breeders’ Series Fillies’ Handicap, in which she is up against her own sex.
B FIFTY TWO may not be the force he once was, but he can still cut a dash as he showed when only beaten a neck by Kingstreet Lady at Carlisle on his latest start.
A winner at Pontefract in April, Marjorie Fife’s nine-year-old sprinter can land his second success of the season in the Racing UK Handicap at Beverley.
SELECTIONS
BEVERLEY: 2.00 Glass Slippers, 2.30 One To Go, 3.00 Flower Power, 3.30 B Fifty Two, 4.00 Precision, 4.30 Calling Rio, 5.00 Red Charmer.
SALISBURY: 2.10 Canavese, 2.40 Sharg, 3.10 Black Sails, 3.40 Highland Pass, 4.10 Elarqam, 4.40 LORELINA (NAP), 5.10 Praeceps.
DOUBLE: Lorelina and B Fifty Two.