Hold-up sprinter should have race run to suit at Ascot

Credit: Edward Whitaker

Blue Laureate
3.00 Ascot
1pt each-wayArecibo
4.45 Ascot
2pts each-wayFrankellina
7.30 York
2pts winThere looks to be plenty of pace on in the Neptune Investment Management Supports Child Bereavement UK Handicap (4.45) and when that scenario looks likely to unfold at Ascot, it's easy to be drawn to whatever Jamie Spencer is riding.

Spencer gets the leg up on David O'Meara's Arecibo, and the ex-French four-year-old certainly has plenty going for him.

Beaten only a neck in a 5½f Group 3 at Maisons-Laffitte as a three-year-old for Carlos Laffon-Parias, Arecibo arrived at O'Meara's with a mark of 100, but he didn't show much at all on his first couple of starts in various headgear so was gelded.

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Published on 25 July 2019inHorse racing tips

Last updated 14:44, 25 July 2019

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