Ouninpohja should keep up good run

Ouninpohja can make it a four-timer for trainer Alan Swinbank with success in the newmarketexperience.co.uk Handicap today.

Ouninpohja can make it a four-timer for trainer Alan Swinbank with success in the newmarketexperience.co.uk Handicap today.

The four-year-old has been steadily creeping up the ratings with a string of good performances this season, but given that he is not the most straightforward character, he could have a bit more up his sleeve.

Ouninpohja kicked off his sequence with a win over a mile and a half at Doncaster in July and followed up over a shorter trip at Newcastle later the same month.

The Imperial Ballet gelding then lined up for a competitive handicap at Pontefract and although he didn't win in the most impressive fashion, he tended to carry his head up and wasn't doing anything in front.

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Ouninpohja may well be better than the bare form and he looks one who still might just be in front of the handicapper.

Dawn Quest can open his account in the EBF Maiden Stakes over a mile.

Some of Godolphin's two-year-olds have needed their first run and this Dynaformer colt looked to be no exception when finishing a close second to Art Deco at Sandown last month.

Dawn Quest, a half-brother to the high-class Daggers Drawn, looked unsuited by the soft ground there but he stuck on well under pressure and will appreciate the quicker ground and the step up to a mile.

Turn On The Style tackles the Griffiths and Armour EBF Classified Stakes at Haydock in terrific heart having won or made the frame on all but one of his six most recent starts.

The Pivotal gelding's good run started at Wolverhampton last December with a second place before winning next time out and being put away for the darkest months of winter.

And when he returned to the track in May, Turn On The Style continued in good heart by winning over today's course and distance, beating subsequent winner Zomerlust by a short head.

He then came home fourth in a competitive handicap back at Haydock - finishing an impressive six lengths clear of the fifth - and he has finished runner-up on his two subsequent outings.

Both those efforts show Turn On The Style in a positive light and now returning to the scene of his finest hour, he can land a second win of the season.

Along The Nile seems hard pushed to make a wrong step at the moment and can find the winner's enclosure for the fourth time this summer in the Kings Regiment Cup.

Although raced at different distances, the three-year-old has done all of his winning over a mile - including at Haydock.

On that occasion he overcame trouble in running to score by half a length, rewarding those who had sent him off the 4 to 1 co-favourite.

Punters were quick to latch onto him next time out at Doncaster, but a pedestrian early gallop did not suit and the 100 to 30 jolly could not get involved.

However, he seemed much more his old self at Pontefract last month when getting a dream run up the rail to win again and show his effort on Town Moor to be all wrong.

Lynda Ramsden has given him a break of almost three weeks to recover from his exertions and Along The Nile can keep the profits rolling.

Richard Hannon's relentless winner-producing machine did the job for the 110th time this year when Silver Blue took the HSBC Bank Dorchester Commercial Centre EBF Novice Stakes at Salisbury yesterday..

The 5 to 6 favourite took up the running two furlongs out under Ryan Moore and kept on bravely all the way to the line to defeat Jadalee by two lengths.

It was another solid performance from the winner, who has taken Hannon somewhat by surprise in recent weeks.

"When the handicapper put him in on 90 I couldn't believe it and I rang him up and told him I thought he'd gone mad!" said the trainer.