The racing fare for punters is, inevitably, somewhat thin today with the five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting starting on the Sussex Downs tomorrow not to mention the Galway Festival opening with a valuable card this evening. Aprovado (4.30) could prove worthy of support, however, in the six-furlong handicap up at Ayr this afternoon.
This is a competitive race of its type, with (currently) the ideal eight runners for each-way purposes and only one that can be easily dismissed. Michael Dods’s runner has 35 runs under his belt and is unlikely to be getting any better at this stage, but he arrives on the back of his best performance of the summer when a close second at Carlisle earlier this month. Bossipop, who was another neck behind him in third place, is a winner since and the time of the race was strong and Aprovado is a fair price at around 11-4 to record a seventh career success.
Perfect Words (5.00) took an amateurs’ event over course and distance three weeks ago and is just 3lb higher today, so should also go well on the same card. Cosa Nostra (1.30) should improve for an extra furlong in the opening novice stakes, while Fast And Hot (6.40) and Favourite Treat (6.50), who returns to handicaps on a fair mark after winning a claimer in a fair time on his latest start, make most appeal on the evening cards at Windsor and Wolverhampton respectively.
Ayr: 1.30 Cosa Nostra 2.00 Newspeak 2.30 Harbour Patrol 3.00 Wor Lass 3.30 Abushamah 4.00 Gworn 4.30 Aprovado (nap) 5.00 Perfect Words
Newton Abbot: 1.45 Positively Dylan 2.15 Oriental Fixer 2.45 Sleep Easy 3.15 Third Act 3.45 Too Many Diamonds 4.15 Humbel Ben 4.45 Rockery Garden
Windsor: 5.35 Dandy Flame 6.05 Dream Prospect 6.40 Fast And Hot 7.15 Al Barg 7..50 Captain Felix 8.20 Know Your Limit
Wolverhampton: 5.45 Seyaady 6.15 Qaaraat 6.50 Favourite Treat 7.25 Easy Code 8.00 Yasir 8.30 First Up 9.00 Dream Magic
