Punters have opportunity to dance with joy

RACING: Tuite’s five-year-old has every chance to continue progress at Bath

FAST DANCER can save the best until last at Bath.

The five-year-old gelding has not won for more than two years, but must have a grand chance in the concluding one-mile handicap on the seven-race card.

Fast Dancer has this year shown gradual progress and was perhaps unlucky not to strike at Brighton last month when he got to within a head of Honiara in a seven-furlong handicap.

He was then sent to Windsor a fortnight ago and turned in another satisfactory effort back over a mile.

The gelded son of Fast Company finished third, beaten three-quarters of a length, but he would probably have got closer to the main players had he not encountered traffic problems inside the final two furlongs.

Fast Dancer stayed on nicely once daylight did appear, and yet he is still allowed to run in this moderate encounter off the same handicap mark.

That means he is still 1lb lower than when he last found the back of the net, so trainer Joe Tuite is right to head to Bath in an optimistic frame of mind.

Keep close tabs on FUMBO JUMBO in a five-furlong handicap at Catterick.

Michael Dods’ inmate did pretty well for previous trainer Garry Moss and carried on the good work on her first start for her new handler.

She essentially had little chance against Tylery Wonder in the jumps jockeys’ ‘Nunthorpe’ at York on July 1, but Dods must have been really pleased by the manner in which she kept going for second spot.

Fumbo Jumbo can win a race like this off her current mark, but Callum Rodriguez’s 5lb claim will also come in very handy.

Meanwhile GLORY AWAITS for punters in the Paul Kelleway Memorial Classified Stakes at Lingfield. SELECTIONS:

BATH: 2.10 Golden Salute, 2.40 Our Lord, 3.10 Sayesse, 3.40 Really Super, 4.10 Innoko, 4.40 See The Sea, 5.10 Fast Dancer. CATTERICK: 2.00 Shovel It On, 2.30 Star Of Zaam, 3.00 Faradays Spark, 3.30 Lonely The Brave, 4.00 Fumbo Jumbo, 4.30 Spike, 5.00 Kroy, 5.30 Canny Style.

LINGFIELD: 2.20 Oswald, 2.50 Tie Em Up Tel, 3.20 Ice Slice, 3.50 Whitecrest, 4.20 Its A Sheila Thing, 4.50 Picansort, 5.20 Koeman.

DOUBLE: Fast Dancer and Fumbo Jumbo.