Ripon brings more success for Carr
Ruth Carr has her horses in cracking form and she sent out her fifth winner in six days when completing a double with the tough and consistent sprinters Moheebb and Red Cape at Ripon today.
The latter had been successful at Thirsk on Friday, while Moheebb had struck at the same course 24 hours later, and like her grandfather David Chapman, Carr is not afraid of keeping her horses busy when they are at the top of their form.
Moheebb, with P J McDonald on board, burst clear inside the final furlong to win the Weatherbys Bloodstock Insurance Handicap by three lengths, and Carr said of the 7-1 chance: "On this (good) ground the extra distance (10 furlongs) helped him.
"I have always had a soft spot for him, my grandfather had Quito who kept improving at eight and nine years old and like Moheebb his sire is Machiavellian so hopefully there is plenty more to come."
Red Cape (7-2 favourite) was partnered by Andrew Elliott and he made all and kept on well to score by one and a half lengths from the strong-finishing Viking Spirit in the featured £15,000 Armstrong Memorial Handicap.
The Stillington trainer, having taken her score for the year to 30, including two over jumps, went on: "He comes home, looks well and eats up after his races so there is no reason not to keep running him when he is so well.
"We were getting frustrated with him earlier in the season, but the penny has really dropped with him now and he is in a nice race at Haydock on Saturday."
But other irons are in the fire too, and the Great St Wilfrid over the same course and distance on Saturday week is a possibility, although Carr went on: "We have Excusez Moi for that, but we could run Red Cape too and then we would have a chance of them being drawn on opposite sides.
"Then there is the Ayr Gold Cup later on, so we will have to see."
Makbullet (2-1 favourite) survived a pre-race scare to gain his first success at the sixth attempt in the EBF Children's Day Maiden Stakes in the hands of Frederik Tylicki
Winning trainer Howard Johnson's assistant Ray Hawkey said: "We had a bit of a worry before the race - as the horse was going into the parade ring one of his shoes slipped off but luckily we had time to get him reshod.
"Makbullet was overdue a win, he has been running well but just been meeting one nor two too good.
"That is Frederik's first winner for us, he rides well and is a good strong jockey."
Trainer Jeremy Gask is developing a liking for Ripon and Theta Wave, sent on a lone 490-mile round trip from his Wiltshire base, gained a last-gasp success under Neil Callan in the Alistair And Joanne's Wedding Day Selling Handicap.
Gask's representative Louisa Griffin said after the 9-2 success: "Jeremy likes sending us up here!
"The first time we came here about six weeks ago we had two runners in the same race and they finished first and fourth.
"Things are going very well for us, we had a winner on Friday evening and one on Saturday evening and we run a nice horse, One Way Or Another, at Ascot on Saturday."
Fossgate, blinkered for the first time, won the Tony Tymon Memorial Handicap for the third time, adding to his successes in 2006 and 2008 (did not run in the race in 2007) when bolting in by three and three-quarter lengths under Royston Ffrench.
They all come alike to Henry Cecil and Tom Queally, and having teamed up to land the £113,450-to-the-winner Group One Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday, they won the Destination Harrogate Maiden Stakes with My Chestnut Girl, who earned a first prize of £2,914.20 (€3,425.11).
Doctor Parkes got back on the winning trail under Shane Kelly in the Levy Board Handicap, after which Eric Alston said: "He has always shown plenty of ability, he has just started to mature and hopefully he will make a nice sprinter next year."
