17:10 Stratford

Sunday 23 July 2017

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Off time: 17:10 | Winning time: 3m 44.46s

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A Legal Beauty^t1⁷⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 10-12| J: P J Brennan| T: F O'Brien

5/2

Three starts in Irish point-to-points only yielded a runner-up slot on her last start in that realm. Makes her bumper debut here for a yard that have a decent record with their debutantes and in a weak race looks one who can take a hand in this.

Form: FP-2

Celer Et Audax⁶³

Age: 5| Weight: 10-12| J: Miss Brodie Hampson⁽⁵⁾| T: J G M O'Shea

33/1

33/1 on her debut over C&D last time out when slipping up when well behind and looks to have a similarly tough task this time.

Form: S

Luma's Gift

Age: 5| Weight: 10-12| J: Conor Shoemark| T: R G Hawker

25/1

Yard not known for their bumper winners and is a sister to a modest hurdler/useful chaser Mick The Jiver. The dam was unraced but comes from the family of top-class staying hurdler Iris's Gift.

Form:

Pure Affection¹⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 10-12| J: T J O'Brien| T: Ian Williams| BF

7/2

Favourite when winning a mares maiden point-to-point and ran to what looked to be a fairly modest level on her debut. Looked a little short of pace there and will be suited by further than 2m in time.

Form: 7134

Secret Escape

Age: 5| Weight: 10-12| J: Lorcan Murtagh⁽⁷⁾| T: D McCain Jnr

8/1

A half-sister to five winners including the fairly useful hurdler Portrade with the dam having been a winner over 1m1f. Stable can have winners on debut and she's worth a look in the market.

Form:

Cut And Run

Age: 4| Weight: 10-10| J: Andrew Tinkler| T: M Keighley

8/1

The second foal of an unraced dam by Getaway who makes her debut here for a yard that have already had a couple of bumper winners this year.

Form:

Nicely Done¹⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 10-10| J: C O'Farrell| T: S Durack| BF

6/1

Finished behind Pure Affection on her debut in a Worcester bumper but it wouldn't be a surprise if she reversed the form here. Never really that well placed in that race she looked as though she would be better for the run and should take more of a hand here.

Form: 6

Oksana^h¹⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 10-10| J: D A Jacob| T: B I Case

11/4

The most experienced mare in this field having already had a couple of starts and had both Pure Affection and Nicely Done behind her at Worcester last time out. She certainly settled better on that occasion in a first time hood (retained here) and should run well again although the pair that were behind her have every chance of reversing the form.

Form: 33

Non-Runners

Fine Ark

Weight: 10-10| Age: 4

T: H D Daly J: Non Runner

Forecasts

A Legal Beauty (5/2), Oksana (11/4), Pure Affection (7/2), Nicely Done (6/1), Fine Ark (7/1), Secret Escape (8/1), Cut And Run (8/1), Luma's Gift (25/1), Celer Et Audax (33/1)

For the grade and type of race this doesn’t look a bad event with the Worcester bumper that three of this field ran in last time out possibly holding the key to the outcome. NICELY DONE was behind the other two protagonists from that race in Pure Affection and Oksana but she could well reverse that form having come on for the run and not having had the run of that contest. A Legal Beauty makes her debut here from a yard that usually have their runners tuned up for this sort of event with Secret Escape and Cut And Run two other debutantes who contribute some depth to this closing event on the card.