Notebooks out: five handicappers to follow on the turf this season

The Flat season is starting to hit full flow and it's not all about the Classics and Group races. Here are five handicappers, of varying ability, who are worth following this campaign

Contrapposto
David Menuisier
Official rating: 95
Smart juvenile efforts behind Listed winner D’Bai and subsequent Racing Post Trophy scorer Rivet, followed by a maiden success at Nottingham, resulted in a crack at the aforementioned Group 1 contest at Doncaster in which the son of Cacique failed to land a telling blow.

Back to form on his return at three when a staying-on fourth behind Eminent, Rivet and Benbatl in the Craven Stakes, the Clive Washbourn-owned Contrapposto missed the rest of the campaign after finishing last in the Dante at York, but returned to action last month when finishing mid-division in the Spring Cup at Newbury.