Timeform highlight two horses of interest at Taunton and Lingfield this evening.
TARITINO - 19:00 Taunton
TARITINO ran up a hat-trick on the Flat for Joe Tickle last summer, and while it took him a while to break his duck over hurdles, he finally did so at Taunton last time in a style that suggests he’s well able to follow up over the same course and distance this evening.
Taritino has done most of his racing over hurdles at the Somerset track and shaped well when reverting to front-running tactics before finishing third there on his penultimate start. Ridden from the front again, he confirmed that promise with a ready success last time and remains on a good mark judged on the level of ability he showed on the Flat.
NEWFANGLED - 19:20 Lingfield
NEWFANGLED has been a model of consistency for Jonathan Portman over the last twelve months, making the frame in each of his last 11 starts. His record in cheekpieces on the all-weather in that time reads particularly well and includes two wins at Wolverhampton and one at Lingfield in the second half of last year.
While all those wins came over a bit further that this evening’s trip of a mile, Newfangled ran as well as ever dropped back in distance at Kempton last week with the headgear back on. Always prominent, he was produced to lead over a furlong out but caught late on to be beaten a head by Port Erin. He seems sure to go very close again off the same mark.
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