Race cards · Fri 11 Apr
Friday 11 April · Ayr, Scotland
14:40 Get Home Safe With Thistle Cabs Handicap Hurdle
- Distance
- 3m 0f 70y
- Going
- Good to Soft
- Class
- 3
- Prize
- GBP 16000
- Runners
- 13
Race preview
Imperial Merlin is a C&D winner who showed improvement after a wind operation to score at Haydock and has to be respected off just 4lb higher. However, HISTRIONIC beat a subsequent winner to shed his maiden tag at Chepstow last month and Paul Nicholls' promising six-year-old is likely to have plenty of improvement in him. This is only his fourth start over hurdles and he is fancied to make a successful handicap bow. Ace Of Spades is another to keep an eye on.
| Pos | Horse | Form | Jockey | Trainer | Wgt | SP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billy Boi Blue | 2-313P5 | Kielan Woods | D Killahena & G McPherson | 11 11 | 12-1 | |
| 2 | Ace Of Spades | 1-42114 | Harry Skelton | D Skelton | 12 0 | 10-3 | |
| 3 | Pounding Poet | 06PP4-6 | Stan Sheppard | T Lacey | 11 6 | 20-1 | |
| 4 | I Am Max | 1-3F223 | Ryan Mania | A M Thomson | 11 7 | 5-1 | |
| 5 | Belvedere Blast | 331524 | Danny McMenamin | A Keatley | 11 2 | 18-1 | |
| 6 | Chasingouttheblues | 171130 | Jamie Hamilton | M Walford | 11 8 | 13-2 | |
| 7 | Imperial Merlin | FP-5231 | Craig Nichol | J & S Quinn | 12 0 | 14-1 | |
| 8 | Park Annonciade | 7F3347 | J J Slevin | S R B Crawford | 11 3 | 11-1 | |
| 9 | Histrionic | 375-431 | Harry Cobden | P F Nicholls | 11 10 | 11-2 | |
| 10 | De Kingpin | 2-351P3 | Ben Jones | B Pauling | 11 5 | 22-1 | |
| 11 | Icare Allen | 871729 | Callum Pritchard | J & A O'Neill | 11 13 | 33-1 | |
| - | Gaillimh A Stor | 3/322P8 | Bruce Lynn | N W Alexander | 11 9 | 20-1 | |
| - | Kintail | 5-3PPU5 | N de Boinville | N J Henderson | 11 1 | 8-1 | |
| NR | Theme Tune | 115/6-95 | C O'Farrell | N W Alexander | 11 1 |