Easterby charge can continue trainer's purple patch

Credit: Alan Crowhurst

Kenny The Captain
2.40 Redcar
1pt win at 15-2

Jim Goldie's Tommy G is likely to be a warm order in this 6f handicap after a superb run in the Stewards' Cup consolation race last week. However, he is likely to go off a short-priced favourite and for a horse who has just one win in fifteen runs he is worth taking on with Tim Easterby's Kenny The Captain.

The six-year-old travelled like the winner last time out at Carlisle before he failed to take the gap at the furlong pole and then the door got shut on him.

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Published on 12 August 2017inHorse racing tips

Last updated 09:49, 12 August 2017

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