Rehearsed to strike at Musselburgh

This season’s Flat jockeys’ championship continues to capture the imagination of the racegoing public, with Jamie Spencer and Seb Sanders fighting it out for the crown.

This season’s Flat jockeys’ championship continues to capture the imagination of the racegoing public, with Jamie Spencer and Seb Sanders fighting it out for the crown.

While both hold good prospects of notching yet another winner in the Bank Of Scotland Corporate Willie Park Trophy at Musselburgh, the duelling duo will do well to get past Hughie Morrison’s Rehearsed.

This In The Wings filly arrives at the Scottish venue in spectacular form, having followed up a cosy success at Salisbury with a narrow win at Newbury.

She still seems to be improving and has only been put up 1lb by the assessor for her recent short-head success.

So with Steve Drowne in the plate, Rehearsed looks sure to go close on this hat-trick mission.

Spencer and Sanders have unsurprisingly landed some tasty rides and from a punting perspective, the pick of these could be the latter’s chance on Spinning in the concluding Redman Fisher Handicap.

David Barron’s charge is on an upward curve after posting wins at this course and at Ayr and still looks feasibly weighted off a perch of 68.

Following the afternoon’s skirmishes, attention will be turned to Wolverhampton’s evening card as Spencer and Sanders go head to head in the next bout of their ongoing fight.

Successes for both are to be expected, with Mark Prescott’s Points Of View just about the pick for Sanders in the Stay At The Wolverhampton Holiday Inn Nursery.

The Galileo colt must shrug off a 6lb penalty after landing a similar event at Lingfield last week but looks sure to go close, while Spencer will be looking forward to Dart in the Book Online At wolverhamptonracecourse.co.uk Median Auction Maiden.

Jumps fans will be keeping a close eye on events at Fontwell and Hexham, with Howard Johnson’s Kealshore Boy expected to take a power of beating in the SIS Novices’ Hurdle at the latter venue.

The youngster made a very bright start to his career with George Moore last term, winning his first two bumpers before finding only Theatrical Moment too strong at Aintree.

He was purchased for almost 300,000 guineas just seven days after that Liverpool effort and looks just the type to rattle up a sequence for new owners Andrea & Graham Wylie.

Also taking the eye on a decent card is the Martin Todhunter-trained Tell Henry, who runs in the Weatherbys Bloodstock Insurance Novices’ Chase.

This useful sort has already won a bumper and two hurdle events but promises to come into his own over the larger obstacles.

Two close seconds on his initial forays over fences have done nothing to change that opinion and he makes appeal now connections have elected to send him over a trip in excess of three miles for the first time.

Lodge Lane should be closely monitored in Fontwell’s WBX.com £25 Free Bet For New Accounts Conditional Jockeys’ Novices’ Hurdle.

Victor Dartnall’s six-year-old would have gone close to landing a hat-tick in the Champion Bumper at Cheltenham if he had not hung at a crucial stage and should take high rank over timber.

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