Greenall’s Fort looks set to deliver
Oliver Greenall may have the solution to the first division of the apprentice’s handicap hurdle at Carlisle – if he can eke out some progress from Fort Jefferson.
A three- time winner on the flat, with cut in the ground, the five- year- old faded out of contention on his handicap debut at Market Rasen.
After a four- week break – an ease of 5lb in the handicap, and a drop back in trip – the son of Passing Glance is getting close to delivery time.
A Newbury winner on the flat off a high mark of 71, his current rating of 103, is starting to look feasible. And he has a very capable pilot in Robert Hawker.
Dark And Dangerous is fully exposed but, in fairness, he can win when everything falls right and there is some dead wood in division two.
The 10- year- old last won in March last year, when he slammed Mash Potato by 16 lengths at Sedgefield off 103, the same mark which applies today.
And last time at Wetherby, he was only four-and-a-half-lengths four th to Final Choice, in a race in today’s grade which looked a little stronger.
My Old Gold looks as if he is crying out for a longer trip for Nicky Richards after three solid- placed efforts over shorter journeys.
Last time out, at Ayr, he looked to be cruising until being out- paced in the straight. He’ll do better over a longer distance.