LAST DATE is well treated for her bid to improve an impressive course record in the Inaugural LB Group Handicap (4.05) at Chelmsford City.
The Ivan Furtado-trained daughter of Music Master is a different horse when she visits the Essex Showground - all three of her career victories have come there. The most recent of the trio came almost a year to the day - on April 1 2021 - from a British Horseracing Authority rating of 61.
Last Date has been beaten in seven starts since, including two at Chelmsford City, but that losing run has seen my selection fall to a mark of 60. Furtado’s team has hit form with a vengeance - his last three runners have come home in front - and Sean Levey’s mount is capable of a big run at rewarding odds.
A switch to Dave Evans - and the application of a visor - has been the making of CUBAN BREEZE, who is taken to carry on the good work in Chelmsford’s concluding Woodford Reserve Rye Handicap (7.15). The former Mick Quinn trainee scored over course and distance in the headgear on her debut for Evans, then following a third at Wolverhampton with a success there 13 days ago.
William Buick’s partner is thriving and can overcome a further 7lb rise in the weights.
Thursday tips
WARWICK
1.00 BENIGN DICTATOR
1.30 JEFFERY'S CROSS
2.05 WIND TOR
2.40 MONEY SPINNER
3.15 PRINCE ESCALUS
3.50 HEAD LAW
4.25 NOT THAT FUISSE
4.58 GINNY'S DESTINY
LINGFIELD PARK
1.50 DESERT LAND
2.25 NAUGHTY NADINE
3.00 RAVI ROAD
3.35 TARTARUS
4.10 CLASE AZUL ULTRA
4.45 INTERVENTION
5.15 THE DEFIANT
WETHERBY
2.15 PATAGONIA
2.50 WEEBILL
3.25 MISS AMELIA
3.58 GLENCLASSLEY
4.33 LORD SPARKY
5.05 FREETHINKER
5.35 FAME AND HOPE
CHELMSFORD CITY
3.30 BOASTY
4.05 LAST DATE (NAP)
4.40 LOVE POEMS
5.10 RECKON I’M HOT
5.45 GOOD TO GO
6.15 STOPNSEARCH
6.45 MR PROFESSOR
7.15 CUBAN BREEZE (NB)
