In the Time For Tea Cup Handicap (1.55) at Bath on Monday, Emily Davison is clearly no world beater, but was only just touched off, after trying to make all, in a 0-70 contest at Brighton last week and can make amends off the same handicap mark. Indeed, the Moss Vale filly is just 1lb higher in the weights than when winning, in the grade, on the Polytrack at Chelmsford City three starts ago, so could prove difficult to peg back.
Her Chelmsford win was her first for twelve starts, but she ran creditably in defeat on more than occasion last season off handicap marks in the sixties, so it’d difficult to argue that she’s not, at least, reasonably handicapped. She’s yet to win on firm going, but won a couple of times on good going last summer, when in the care of Karen Tutty, and ran well on good to firm going last week, so she should be effective on it. She’s also won over 5 furlongs at Hamilton, so the stiff, uphill finish at Bath should play to her strengths.
The presence of rising star Oisin Murphy in the saddle can only be a positive and she seems sure to be popular at the 7/2 available in the very early price lists.
Selection: Bath 1.55 Emily Davison to win Tipster: David