Jef­fery Ross

Bar­ry Hills and Robert Win­ston take two to Ayr to­day, both two-year-olds. Fine Threads and Red Mar­ling, are ex­pect­ed to pay for the 'mil­lion miles' trip from Lam­bourn, by land­ing the first two races. Fine Threads is a par­tic­u­lar­ly use­ful prospect and was well-backed on de­but at War­wick in a sim­i­lar race ear­li­er this month. Af­ter hav­ing every chance un­der Robert Win­ston, this Barathea fil­ly flat­tened in the los­ing stages and was beat­en just over a length, in half-de­cent time. To all in­tents and pur­pos­es, this looks a penal­ty kick with­out a goalie and ex­pect Win­ston to kick on, be­fore part­ner­ing Red Mar­ling in a six fur­longs nurs­ery which looks winnable.

Red Mar­ling is no great shakes, bit of a dis­ap­point­ment re­al­ly but he's been work­ing much bet­ter since his last run ear­li­er this month. A pos­i­tive is Win­ston be­cause the Dane­hill Dancer colt achieved his best time-hand­i­cap mark, un­der Robert at Ffos Las. A sol­id each-way bet and so is Whis­per Louise in the twelve-run­ner, list­ed Fil­lies' Stakes over the fa­mous New­mar­ket Row­ley Mile.

Whis­per Louise has im­proved for dis­tance, twice hit­ting cred­itable marks, on grade one tracks over sev­en fur­longs and Pe­ter­bor­ough train­er, Pam Sly is look­ing for­ward to this 25 grand race. Ob­vi­ous TH dan­ger is twice-raced Nabah but she is trained by Clive Brit­tain who just can't be tak­en se­ri­ous­ly, even though he does bring off the oc­ca­sion­al sur­prise. When Clive wins pun­ters can af­ford to lose. Fi­nal leg of the yan­kee (three tre­bles and an ac­cu­mu­la­tor) is Strict­ly Pink, in the Maid­en Stakes over six fur­longs of Wolver­hamp­ton poly­track. No slips up please, Paul Hana­gan!

SE­LEC­TIONS

RACE 3 (#6) FINE THREADS

RACE 8 (#3) RED MAR­LING (e.w.)

RACE 17 (#12) WHIS­PER LOUISE (nap e.w.)

RACE 39 (#8) STRICT­LY PINK