Long awaited winner for Michael Jarvis at Yarmouth
Yarmouth is often used by Newmarket trainers as a testing ground for their young horses and Michael Jarvis can often be a trainer to follow with his two-year-olds on the track.
The Jarvis juveniles have a 36% strike-rate at the course while the trainer’s two-year-olds have a 28% strike-rate in maiden for this year.
Long Awaited lived up to his name by not making his racecourse debut until Leicester a fortnight ago. He could only finish third but was beaten just a length from what looked a couple of useful types from the yards of Luca Cumani and Sir Michael Stoute. He took a little time to get going and actually led inside the final furlong before finding it all just a bit too much first time out.
That experience should stand him in good stead and he should also be able to handle the heavy going, Pivotal’s stock tend to prefer cut in the ground, in the European Breeders' Fund bet365.com Maiden Stakes.
Captain Becket would hardly rate as a model of consistency but his good form should be good enough for the Best of Taunton Handicap Hurdle.
The seven-year-old runs off a mark of 95, from which he ran a good race to be beaten just a head by Lemon Silk in a handicap at Exeter last week. Stamina should not be an issue because in June he won a selling hurdle Newton Abbot, over a distance longer than this, beating horses into second and third with whom he was 10 and 16lbs wrong at the weights based on official handicap figures.
Colin Tizzard looks like he could have a few likely contenders for the bigger prizes this season led by novice hurdler Cue Card, who got his season off to a promising start with an emphatic win at Aintree on Sunday. Mocambo is unlikely to be making that much of an impression but, having cost just £2,000, he will not need to be that good to get the money back starting with the Total Star Radio Somerset 102.4 Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race.
In a race that most of the trainers who farm bumpers are absent, Mocambo looks the one based on his staying-on fifth at Chepstow two weeks ago against what appeared to be stronger opposition.
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