Andy Holding is back with two tips for today's action, including a NAP at Wolverhampton.
14:30 Wolverhampton
TIFFANY (NAP) (best price 3/1) scored with a bit more in hand than the bare result suggested over today’s course last time out and having been handed what appears a reasonable opening mark of 72, Sir Mark Prescott’s filly is fancied to go well on her return to the Midland track on handicap debut.
Having shown only mild promise over seven furlongs on her first two starts, the consensus was connections might be setting her up for handicaps with a statutory run over the same trip here 15 days ago, but as it turned out, she was ridden on her merits to storm through late on to capture a decent novice event.
In clocking a useful time figure, she accounted for the 82-rated and previous winner Mars Magic and, considering she did so by pricking her ears after going passed her main market rival in a flash, there is extra merit attached to her performance.
Bred to stay much further, the step up to the extended 1m1f back at the Dunstall Park track should hold no fears and hailing from a stable who often excel with this type of filly, the daughter of Farhh makes quite a bit of appeal.
18:50 Tramore
DARK NOTE (best price 10/3) was extremely game in fending off the persistent challenge of the well-fancied Shajak at Sligo over hurdles on Sunday and with connections clearly out to strike while the iron is hot, there is plenty of sense in the logic of siding with Andrew Slattery’s inmate reverting to the Flat off what appears a decent mark.
Knocking on the door throughout the summer jumping period, it looked like he may have to settle for a minor role for the fourth time in succession as his main market rival moved smoothly up to join the Night Of Thunder gelding approaching the last at the Cleveragh Road venue, but in a dramatic shift in powers, he wrestled back the advantage on the run-in to gain just rewards for his consistency.
Likely to have gained great confidence from that battling success, the four-year-old looks in a good enough headspace right now to add to his only other previous victory on the Flat at Ballinrobe for previous connections.
