Newmarket handler James Tate has his string in sparkling form and he doesn’t waste bullets by sending horses to Royal Ascot unless they have a chance of winning.
Tate has enjoyed six winners from 19 runners over the past fortnight for a winning strike rate of 32 per cent. His only runner so far this week at Royal Ascot, Blue Rc, was second in the Royal Hunt Cup at 28-1 to a well-handicapped horse in Rogue Diplomat.
Tate doesn’t waste bullets by sending horses to Royal Ascot unless they have a chance of winning
I think his horse, DARN HOT GALLOP has a big chance today of winning the Sandringham Stakes (5 p.m.). She is three wins from four races, her only defeat coming when she was outclassed in the Betfred 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket in early May.
This three-year-old filly can race today off an official mark of 86 and the form of her penultimate run, when first on her handicap debut at Newmarket, could hardly have worked out better with the second, third and sixth going on to win handicaps. Darn Hot Gallop races today off a mark of just 3 lbs higher than for that Newmarket win which leaves her dangerously well handicapped.
