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Tonight's racing: three runners who catch the eye

Frankie Dettori: not a regular at Wolverhampton
Frankie Dettori: not a regular at WolverhamptonCredit: Getty Images

Three evening meetings to get your teeth into tonight with two jumps meetings and Flat action on the all-weather at Wolverhampton. Newton Abbot's card starts at 5.50, while Ballinrobe begins at 6.00 and the first at Wolverhampton is due to take place at 6.10.

Dhalam
7.10 Wolverhampton
Frankie Dettori doesn't make many visits to Wolverhampton - just seven rides in the last five years - but he is there tonight to partner Dhalam for John Gosden in a maiden. A €160,000 breeze-up buy last year, Dhalam went off favourite for a mile maiden at Newbury last time, but had no extra in the closing stages behind 100-1 winner Duke Of Bronte, so could by suited be the drop back to 7f.

If it's a winner you want - regardless of price - this Paul Nicholls inmate could be the one as he's long odds-on for the hunter chase. Rated 155 at his peak, the 12-year-old is 20lb lower now, but still has loads in hand over his rivals. He will be ridden by Bryony Frost, Nicholls' pupil assistant who won Cheltenham's Foxhunter on the yard's Pacha Du Polder at the festival in March.

When Demi O'Byrne, Coolmore's astute judge of young horses, shelled out 240,000gns for Tower Bridge as a yearling in 2014, he might not have expected the son of High Chaparral to be lining up in a Ballinrobe bumper this evening. However, the four-year-old failed to make the track when trained by Aidan O'Brien, whose son Joseph saddled Tower Bridge to finish fourth in the colours of JP McManus in a Punchestown bumper last month. Slightly green, he should have learned plenty from that outing.


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