THE home team did well at Musselburgh yesterday with a couple of Scottish-trained winners while Bourse landed a nice touch for former bookmaker Matt Sawers.
He is based at Eaglesham near Hamilton, has had four winners from his last five runners and Bourse, bought for a bargain £1500, landed some nice bets when battling home as the 7-1 winner of the TurfTV Betting Shop Handicap.
Sawers recruited Bour
se from John Gosden's powerful Newmarket yard at the sales there before Christmas. He sent the horse to Malton trainer John Wainwright and the gelding stayed on well under PJ McDonald to beat the well-backed Newmarket raider Addwaitya.
Stellite was successful at the last meeting here and followed up in the seven-furlong handicap under Danny Tudhope. The joint favourite struck the front entering the final furlong as the pacemaking Poppy's Rose hung left and the gelding scored in tidy style for Uplawmoor trainer Jim Goldie.
Linda Perratt has done well since taking over Ian Semple's yard in Lanarkshire and Royal Amnesty has been flying the flag for her in style. The gelding made it four wins this year – two on the all-weather and two on turf – when overcoming being boxed in to take the mile-and-a-half handicap. It was the five-year-old's first try at this trip, but he was always travelling well under Robert Winston who needed to thread his way through in the closing stages to win with a little in hand in the colours of Mrs Francesca Mitchell from Maybole in Ayrshire.
Dandy Nicholls and his jockey son Adrian have an excellent record on the East Lothian track and rewarded their supporters with a double. Marning Star was sent off 6-4 favourite for the opening maiden affair and made all the running to open his account, while Royal Dignitary did the same in the claiming stakes. He was another winning favourite on an afternoon when things went largely against the bookies, but they got a result when 14-1 shot Angelofthenorth got up in the last stride to win the five-furlong seller. The mare scored over this sharp trip a couple of seasons ago and is trained in County Durham by Colin Teague and was ridden by the in-form Paul Hanagan.
• YESTERDAY was an excellent day for our expert as Joe tipped four winners out of four – an accumulator bet with odds of 262-1.
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