Andy Holding is back with two tips for today's racing action.
14:45 Ayr
AILIE ROSE (NAP) (best price 5-2) has not only got a terrific record under testing conditions, but an unblemished one over today’s track and following a hugely encouraging comeback in a hot contest at Navan three weeks ago, Stuart Crawford’s mare rates the percentage call of the quartet.
Having her first outing for 226 days, the eight-year-old faced a particularly tough task in a listed contest that contained many in-form handicappers and although she couldn’t quite go with the main players inside the final half a mile, she kept on stoutly to finish a creditable fourth.
Just as good, if not better in small fields, the daughter of Fame And Glory returns to a circuit that has seen her put in two impressive performances on both visits and with that all-important run under her belt, she has many bases covered on her attempt to make it 3-3 at the Scottish venue.
AILIE ROSE – 1-point win@5-2
18:30 Wolverhampton
ALREET CHA (best price 9-4) has caught the eye in more ways than one on each of her last three starts and in the hope the shackles are taken off Craig Lidster’s filly, she is fancied to finally break her duck.
Never placed to challenge on her first all-weather start at Newcastle back in November, she left the impression that day she had plenty more to offer and she went on to back up that view over today’s track next time, keeping on well in the latter stages to finish a never-nearer third behind the useful Rosa Applause.
Sent back to the Gosforth Park track last time out, the daughter of Dandy Man was held up towards the rear in the early stages of a slowly run race and when the pace finally increased two out, she found herself in a position from which it was virtually impossible to make any sort of impact. She did, however, do extremely well in the circumstances to finish a close-up fourth and had the race panned out a little more in her favour, she may well have obliged.
Back up in trip and in a race where serious challengers are thin on the ground; she has a decent opportunity to show her true worth.
