Grade 2-winning hurdler looks thrown in on his return to the Flat

Rotherwick3.45 Yarmouth
2pts win

Project Bluebook
4.30 Catterick
2pts win

Fethiye Boy
6.40 Bath
1pt win

Dowayla
8.40 Bath
1pt win

Rotherwick
3.45 Yarmouth

This looks a trappy race on paper with just 6lb covering the eight runners, but Rotherwick, back over his optimum trip and with the race likely to be run to suit, could prove a cut above his rivals.

Paul Cole’s five-year-old has run with credit on each of his three starts since being gelded, including winning for the first time since 2014 on his penultimate run at Lingfield.

He bumped into a well-handicapped rival when attempting to follow up at Nottingham last time but was far from disgraced over a trip that just stretches his stamina.

Rotherwick is 0-18 over that 1m2f trip and beyond yet 4-9 between a mile and this 1m1f distance. He acts on any ground, won on his only previous trip to Yarmouth and is reunited with David Probert, who won on him at Lingfield and is 5-14 for Cole this year.

Project Bluebook
4.30 Catterick

Project Bluebook had a highly productive juvenile hurdle campaign that culminated in a Grade 2 win at Fairyhouse in April and could be thrown in off a mark of 80 on his return to the Flat.

John Quinn is an excellent trainer of dual-purpose horses and must think there are races to be won over the summer with the JP McManus-owned gelding now that he’s refreshed from a well-earned break.

Project Bluebook has already shown an affinity for this track having won over 1m6f here last August on good to firm and, although the ground may not be that quick, he also has winning form on softer.

Fethiye Boy
6.40 Bath

Fethiye Boy is in the form of his life and is fancied to defy the 6lb penalty he incurred for his gutsy win at Sandown last Saturday.
The game front-runner looked in trouble close home, but he managed to fight off the closing pack to hang on in determined fashion.

That was his second win inside nine days having previously won nicely over this course and distance.

There’s not much pace in this race, so Fethiye Boy is likely to get his own way in front again and he would be hard to peg back in his current form.

Fast ground is important to Ronald Harris’s three-year-old and he may not line up if there’s too much rain, but conditions are rarely anything other than quick at Bath, where Harris has had more winners this season (4-16) than at any other track.

Dowayla
8.40 Bath

Saeed Bin Suroor is in good form and is fancied to win this with the lightly raced filly Dowayla, who can gain compensation for an unlucky defeat over 1m2f at Ripon last time.

Dowayla came on for her seasonal debut that day and looked to have the race at her mercy from the front only to be nailed on the line.

There is a chance that Martin Lane can poach an unassailable lead on the Godolphin home-bred this time as most of her rivals like to be delivered late.

A drop in trip shouldn’t trouble her either as she has plenty of speed and potential for further improvement.

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