Indy worth backing off lenient handicap mark

Form at the backend of the Flat turf season can often prove as unreliable as the official going descriptions at many tracks following a light shower of rain, and it often pays to focus on horses who have run well during the closing weeks in previous years.

Indy, who made an impressive four-length winning debut on soft ground as a two-year-old at Doncaster in November 2013, also performed well on Town Moor the following October when third to the progressive Luca Cumani-trained filly Kleo off a mark of 93.

Things haven’t really worked out for David Barron’s five-year-old since, but the good news for punters is that he is able to compete off an eyecatching 78 in division one of Pontefract’s Bet totequadpot At totesport.com Handicap (3.10).