GOWANBUSTER (7.15, nap) gets the vote to end a 16-run losing streak by defying top weight in the Huge Daily Boosts Only At BetUK Handicap (Div I) at Newcastle on Friday.
The bad news for backers of Sudan Corbett’s son of Bahri is that it was in July 2020 that he last saw the inside of a winner’s enclosure.
But there is some good news – all three of Gowanbuster’s all-weather successes have come at Gosforth Park.
The eight-year-old made his return from 191 days on the sidelines – he had wind surgery in the interim – over this course and distance at the start of January.
And there was much to like about my selection’s second, beaten three parts of a length, to Jems Bond.
With that run under his belt, Paul Mulrennan’s mount makes plenty of appeal from a British Horseracing Authority mark of 55 – fully 15lb lower in the ratings than when scoring at Musselburgh in midsummer three years ago.
At Catterick, TRAC holds the aces in the racingtv.com Handicap Chase (2.10).
After a victory at Wetherby two starts ago, Micky Hammond’s six-year-old ran second to the in-form Bolsover Bill over course and distance last time out – but can return to winning ways here.
FRIDAY'S SELECTIONS
CATTERICK
1.10 PRAIRIE WOLF
1.40 HOLD UP LA COLMINE
2.10 TRAC (NB)
2.40 ZESTFUL
3.10 MUSE OF FIRE
3.40 CREDO
4.12 FLEXI FURLOUGH
LINGFIELD
1.20 FLY THE NEST
1.50 CHRONOGRAPH
2.20 MISS MOONSHINE
2.50 BRAINS
3.20 SISTERANDBROTHER
3.50 OXYGEN THIEF
4.20 BROXI
CHEPSTOW
1.30 CREBILLY
2.00 HIPOP DES ONGRAIS
2.30 HEEZER GEEZER
3.00 MONBEG GENIUS
3.30 SANDY BOY
4.05 GLADIATEUR ALLEN
4.40 SPIRITS BAY
NEWCASTLE
4.30 BOBBY SHAFTOE
5.05 BIPLANE
5.40 MAGICDOLLAR
6.15 FLASH BARDOT
6.45 MIGHTY POWER
7.15 GOWANBUSTER (NAP)
7.45 USTATH
8.15 SPANISH ANGEL
DOUBLE: GOWANBUSTER and TRAC
