Jef­fery Ross

Mad Gin­ger Al­ice to out­class sev­en ri­vals in the Maid­en Stakes over a mile of Kemp­ton poly­track to­day, un­op­pos­able.With three places on of­fer my first thought was to find a gen­uine each-way propo­si­tion, there isn't one and Olivia May­lam-trained Mad Gin­ger Al­ice, mount of ex­treme­ly pro­fi­cient Kirsty Mil­czarek, is the de­fin­i­tive 'yan­kee an­chor' on a day which af­fords sev­er­al op­por­tu­ni­ties.An­oth­er 'safe' in­clu­sion on the first of No­vem­ber is Star­board, one of twelve 'decs' for di­vi­sion one of the Maid­en Stakes over sev­en fur­longs at Red­car where cham­pi­on jock­ey Paul Hana­gan has sev­en rides; he's de­ter­mined to re­tain the ti­tle he won for the fist time last sea­son.

Star­board will be rid­den by Robert Havlin for John Gos­den, whose two-year-olds have ac­tu­al­ly been win­ning the ma­jor­i­ty of maid­ens dur­ing the past fort­night. How of­ten this is the case and plen­ty of shrewdies will have latched on­to this glar­ing sta­tis­tic.'Big John' ex­er­cis­es pa­tience. Mind you, with rich own­ers that's pos­si­ble. At an av­er­age cost of £65 a day the min­nows have lit­tle chance and it's a bit like them play­ing 'three card brag' against a mil­lion­aire play­ing 'blind!'

Once-raced, Star­board achieved a time-hand­i­cap mark that wins this-type race nine­teen times out of twen­ty and so get on and let your book­ie know you have been.Mark John­ston-trained Pe­ter An­ders could make it third time lucky in di­vi­sion two, rid­den by Fred­er­ick Tylic­ki!Sta­ble-jock­ey Sil­vestre de Souza, chas­ing Hana­gan with great de­ter­mi­na­tion, is un­avail­able; he'll be sit­ting on a plane as you read this, re­turn­ing from his Mel­bourne Cup ride on Fox Hunt, for John­ston!Main ri­val to Pe­ter An­ders is Per­son­al Touch, mount of Paul Hana­gan!

SE­LEC­TIONS

RACE 1 (#7) STAR­BOARD

RACE 2 (#4) PE­TER AMDERS (e.w.)

RACE 24 (#9) BEAUCHAMP XI­ARA (e.w.)

RACE 26 (#7) MAD GIN­GER AL­ICE