None of these can be ruled out but it could pay to side with the returning SILENT CITY who ended 2025 with an excellent second on the Rowley course here (form been very well advertised) and hails from a yard among the winners. Crystal Pier is feared most on the back of a very good Windsor second with Darzah a potential improver.

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6

Thursday Girl

15% Ed Walker's strike rate with handicap debutants

SP

4

Darzah

22% William Haggas's strike rate with horses running in races between 7f and up to 10f

5/1

4

Darzah

24% William Haggas's strike rate in mid season

5/1

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Race Hints

Specific Pace Hint: Crystal Pier could be expected to race prominently. Of those in the front half of the betting forecast, Thursday Girl might be well positioned in a slowly run affair: Of the better-fancied horses, Silent City is most likely to be ridden furthest from the pace.

Individual Price Hint: Bridget's View traded at 25% or less of Betfair SP and 50% or less of Betfair SP twice on 3 of its last 5 starts.

Past Winners

YEAR

HORSE

AGE

WEIGHT

JOCKEY

TRAINER

SP

RUNNERS

2025

Orange Sky

3

9-6

Billy Loughnane

G Boughey

5/1

7 Ran

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Trainer good strike rate: first time off a break

Horses for courses (negative)

Horses for courses (positive)

Trainer good strike rate: handicap debutants

Trainer good strike rate: first time headgear

Horse in focus

Sire good strike rate: course

Sire good strike rate: distance

Sire good strike rate: going

Trainer in form

Trainer out of form

Trainer/Jockey uplift

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