Redcar best bet: Stockbridge Tap ready to continue progress after extended break
Redcar
This handicap for female amateur jockeys could throw up a surprise or two, and there is particular interest in a promising gelding being eased back into action following a lengthy lay-off.
17:38 Redcar: Watching Racing Replays at racing.tv Handicap (1 mile 2 furlongs)
Top of the betting and bottom of the weights, Foursome looks likely to be sent off as the firm favourite, and she will be tough to beat off that mark if she can replicate the performance that saw her land her first success in a 7-runner-apprentice handicap at Nottingham nine days ago.
Looking useful at a double-digit price is course-and-distance winner Shifter, who broke her duck at Ayr in August and got her nose in front again in a 14-runner handicap over this very trip 13 days ago.
Get the Tipstrr nod, however, is Lucinda Russell’s Stockbridge Tap, who is being nursed back into action following a 20-month lay-off during which this previously promising six-year-old underwent wind surgery.
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His comeback race at Hamilton in July could clearly be written off as a pipe-opener, and he looked better for that run when finishing third at the same venue a few weeks later.
Evidently being treated gently, another two-month rest period ended with a trip to Ayr eight days ago, when he finished a very respectable third of 12, only one and a half lengths off the winner, and just half a length behind experienced course specialist Ayr Poet.
Another measure of that performance was the eight lengths he had in hand with the re-opposing Mac Ailey, and if amateur jockey Roisin Leech can make the most of her five-pound claim, Stockbridge Tap could well give another good account here.
Suggested bet: Stockbridge Tap each-way in the 17:38 at Redcar
- Tip advised by HorsesTips on Tipstrr
