Newsboy fancies his nap, Bobby Dassler, to win at Ffos Las and also hopes Natural Force can score at Newcastle and complete his Daily Double
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).
FRIDAY’S SELECTIONS
THIRSK2.05 SANDRET2.35 NADA TWO3.05 SAXOPHONIST3.38 IT JUST TAKES TIME4.08 NORTHERN EXPRESS4.38 SCARLET MOON5.08 SANBONASANDOWN PARK2.15 NOVELETTE2.45 SAVANNAH SMILE3.15 DARK SOVEREIGN3.50 WORTHINGTON LAKE4.25 CUBAN GIRL4.58 CARNIVAL DAYFFOS LAS1.25 CALL TIME1.55 CYPRIOT DIASPORA2.25 PARTICIPLE2.55 BOBBY DASSLER (NAP)3.27 PENN AVENUE4.03 CLOUDSIDE ROCKSALISBURY5.13 AJRAD5.43 PILU6.13 GUNALT WAVELENGTH6.43 TIME AFTER TIME7.13 EXPLODE7.43 TARITINOFONTWELL PARK4.13 PARTY BUSINESS4.45 VAN AERT5.18 MASTERDREAM5.48 CARLTON6.18 PESCATORIUS7.48 CAWTHORNE BANKER7.18 HOLD ONTO THE LINENEWCASTLE6.00 CROWNTHORPE6.30 RAVENSWELL7.00 BRIMFULOFATTITUDE7.30 DOROTHY MAY8.00 KING’S SCHOOL8.30 NATURAL FORCE (NB)9.00 DESERT RAIDERDOUBLE: BOBBY DASSLER and NATURAL FORCE