Tiritomba can shed maiden tag at Ayr after Palmer switch

Hugo Palmer looks to have found a golden opportunity for Tiritomba to open her account at Ayr.

The Newmaket trainer clearly feels it is worth the journey if it means shedding her maiden tag.

The daughter of Exceed And Excel has had six starts; the first four when she was a twoyear-old and trained by Richard Hannon. She showed fair form when placed on her last two outings and built on that when making her first appearance for the Palmer team.

Tiritomba was thrown in at the deep end in the Sandringham Handicap at Royal Ascot and belied odds of 100-1 in putting up a career-best effort to take fourth place behind Onassis.

She stuck to handicap company for her only subsequent run at Leicester and was only touched off close home by Cloud Drift, going down by a neck.

The Shadwell Stud Maiden Stakes is a much easier task for her and she can reward connections with a first victory.

Equidae has been knocking on the door with good efforts in his last two races and Iain Jardine’s five-year-old could provide the answer to division two of the Afternoon Tea At Western House Hotel Handicap.

The Equiano entire looked like prevailing over this seven furlongs on his penultimate start, but had to settle for third spot in a tight finish.

He filled the same position in a 16-runner handicap at Ripon when sent off favourite. This could be his day.

As well as Tiritomba, champion jockey Oisin Murphy has two other rides on the ten-race card at the track where, as an 18-year-oldapprenticein2013, he rode a four timer including Ayr Gold Cup winner Highland Colori.

Murphy also rides the Ed Walker-trained debutante

Amniarix in the Jordan Electrics Novice Stakes.

Former two-time champion jockey Paul Hanagan, who recently returned to the saddle after being sidelined for six months after breaking several bones in his back in a fall at

Newcastle, has two mounts including the lightly raced Sweet Joanna in the Jordan Electrics Novice Stakes.

The feature race of the afternoon is The QTS To Sponsor Ayr Gold Cup Handicap over a mile at 5.25pm and the David O‘meara trained Eagle Court, the mount of Danny Tudhope, will be fancied to add to his win at Pontefract last time out.

He could be given most to do by the Richard Fahey-trained Dubai Acclaim who was a course-and-distance winner last time out and has Connor Murtagh in the saddle.

The card gets under way at 1.10pm with the Luxury Breaks At Western House Hotel Nursery Handicap.