BOBBY DASSLER is fancied to make it third time lucky in the care of Alison Thorpe with a victory in the dragonbet.co.uk Born From The Betting Ring Classified Stakes (2.55) at Ffos Las on Friday.
The bad news for backers of the six-year-old son of Awtaad is that it’s over two years since he last saw the inside of a winner’s enclosure – his last, and so far sole, success came in a handicap at Nottingham in May 2023.
That win came for Tom Ward and Bobby Dassler has since been trained by Laura Mongan and Michael Wigham before joining Carmarthenshire-based Thorpe in mid-summer.
But my selection ran with credit on his stable debut with a course-and-distance fourth in handicap company 16 days ago.
And he took a step forward with a neck second to The Pug in a classified stakes over 10 furlongs here last Friday.
Coming back a mile shouldn’t be an issue for Bobby Dassler and, with Elizabeth Gale claiming a useful 5lb he’s taken to double his career tally.
At Newcastle, NATURAL FORCE ran well at Ripon at the beginning of the month on the back of a mammoth 814-day lay-off and should justify odds in the High Gosforth Park Golf Club EBF Novice Stakes (8.30).
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FRIDAY'S SELECTIONS
THIRSK
2.05 SANDRET
2.35 NADA TWO
3.05 SAXOPHONIST
3.38 IT JUST TAKES TIME
4.08 NORTHERN EXPRESS
4.38 SCARLET MOON
5.08 SANBONA
SANDOWN PARK
2.15 NOVELETTE
2.45 SAVANNAH SMILE
3.15 DARK SOVEREIGN
3.50 WORTHINGTON LAKE
4.25 CUBAN GIRL
4.58 CARNIVAL DAY
FFOS LAS
1.25 CALL TIME
1.55 CYPRIOT DIASPORA
2.25 PARTICIPLE
2.55 BOBBY DASSLER (NAP)
3.27 PENN AVENUE
4.03 CLOUDSIDE ROCK
SALISBURY
5.13 AJRAD
5.43 PILU
6.13 GUNALT WAVELENGTH
6.43 TIME AFTER TIME
7.13 EXPLODE
7.43 TARITINO
FONTWELL PARK
4.13 PARTY BUSINESS
4.45 VAN AERT
5.18 MASTERDREAM
5.48 CARLTON
6.18 PESCATORIUS
7.48 CAWTHORNE BANKER
7.18 HOLD ONTO THE LINE
NEWCASTLE
6.00 CROWNTHORPE
6.30 RAVENSWELL
7.00 BRIMFULOFATTITUDE
7.30 DOROTHY MAY
8.00 KING’S SCHOOL
8.30 NATURAL FORCE (NB)
9.00 DESERT RAIDER
DOUBLE: BOBBY DASSLER and NATURAL FORCE
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