ALICE’S IMPACT (4.00, NAP) can build on a career best effort last week and make a splash at Brighton today. Dave Evans’s four-year-old filly has been a model of consistency this year and has not finished out of the first four in seven appearances, winning one of those at Wolverhampton in March.
Last time out she took on an in-form rival at Chepstow but pushed the odds-on favourite hard to finish just a half a length down with the front two pulling eight lengths clear of the rest.
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She faces another opponent enjoying a rich vein of form, likely favourite Banksman, but Alice’s Impact can get the job done.
Apprentice Alfie Gee came close to riding his first winner on MY BOY JACK in a hands and heels race at Yarmouth 12 days ago.
Given a patient ride on his first turf appearance since August last year, he got to the lead over 1f out only to succumb late to a challenge from a horse ridden by a much more experienced claimer.
Trainer Kevin Frost has given the 18-year-old another chance on the gelding in the first at Brighton. It will only be Gee’s seventh ride in public but his 7lb allowance could prove decisive in securing a first success on the turf for the three-time all-weather victor.