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Another baking day and another nice run. Nothing to shout about unfortunately. Dianthus found the ground too quick, in that company. It’s fast ground and hopefully the 3 boys tomorrow should be ok on it.   Beach Bar goes first in the 7f handicap. He has been dropped 4lbs since his last run and scrapes in at the top of this race. He ran 15 days ago and ended up needing it. He has had plenty of graft since and appears on good terms with himself. He’s difficult to assess as he’s a total lunatic and a hair raising ride every morning. He’s a lunatic in his races when he’s on his game and we’ll know our fate after 50 yards. If he’s skipping along in the red zone early doors he could run well.     Captain Cat next and he’s a total lunatic.  Very different mind you and I’m starting to get fond of the oddball. He’s started (out of nowhere) to exert himself at home and the power that had him highly rated is occasionally in evidence. If that translates to the track he could prove well handicapped. My reservation would be that this turnaround is very recent and we may not have had enough time for him to come forward sufficiently. We’ll see. We’ve started riding him in blinkers and he seems to like them. They appear to act like a comfort blanket for him and we’re going to try them tomorrow.   Maths Prize is last and he bumps into one very easy to fancy favourite. He’s in terrific form and he’s running in this rather than the mile due to the fast ground. I didn’t think he did too much wrong the last day. Halfords’  controlled the race that day bringing the field up the middle of the track. He got trapped in amongst them and would have needed to be a fast horse (he’s not) to get involved even if he didn’t get knocked over.   Good runs are fine but, Christ, a winner would be welcome!