7:58 Epsom Downs Tips

Four career runs for the 3-year-old and three solid runs in defeat. He was a good 4th of 12 on his handicap debut three weeks ago, but he met an endless amount of traffic problems from 3 furlongs out. Same mark for this contest and worth another chance.

Made a winning debut for new yard over this trip at Goodwood last month and with further improvement expected to come from that run following a 212 day break, she should go well again here being a former course winner over a mile and a quarter.

Best effort by a long way over a mile 2 at Chester, Pappa Louis is chanced against elders now in receipt of an age allowance along with a few of these. That run at Chester has been franked by the winner too, to think this horse has got something in hand off the same mark. A half-brother to a mile 4 winner, he could well take to this step up in trip, and at the very least finds himself towards the bottom of the weights. He didn’t follow up that effort when way off the pace at Musselburgh and racing very keenly down in trip. Hanging left up the straight, he looks like he’ll be more at home going this way. It’s a relatively rare foray to Epsom for Dascombe, who is 7/15 a place in the last 5 years here, winning with 3.

Graham has spent most of this year hurdling. When last on the flat last year, he returned from a break and was pants but was placed when second up off a 78. With a return from a short break last month at the back of the pack, I would expect more improvement today and worth an EW while on a 75 today.