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"Coconut Ice made a most encouraging start to her career when third at Thirsk last Friday and hopes are high that she can get the Club’s 2010 Flat string on the board in Ripon’s fillies’ maiden (4.35pm) on Saturday"

Kieran Packman looks ahead to a trio of Club runners this weekend...

Coconut Ice made a most encouraging start to her career when third at Thirsk last Friday and hopes are high that she can get the Club's 2010 Flat string on the board in Ripon's fillies' maiden (4.35pm) on Saturday. Trained by Tom Dascombe, that debut effort came in a Novice event in which two previous winners came clear, certainly on paper a stronger event than looks the case at Ripon.

To our eyes, Coconut Ice showed plenty to work with, looking sharp to a point in laying up from her outside draw but paying for it late on and rather lacking know-how when the crunch came. She is rated 72p after that initial effort which sees her narrowly ahead of Molly Mylenis and Meandmyshadow in tomorrow's field.

Tom's apprentice Ross Atkinson takes the ride, as he did at Thirsk, and, as the cliché goes, we'll be disappointed if she doesn't go close.

Earlier in the afternoon, we have a pair of runners at Leicester. First up is Club monkey Sunrise Safari, who makes his seasonal reappearance in the 1.55pm. A winner at Pontefract last year from fourteen attempts, Sunrise Safari is lumbered with a Timeform squiggle as he's long promised more than he's delivered. He took us to Derby day, Northumberland Plate day and the Leger meeting last year and ran on all too late on every occasion! His trainer Richard Fahey has started the season well and Sunrise Safari should be fairly straight after leading the two-year-olds in his recent work. That said, he's a confirmed 'thinker', so it rarely pays to be bullish either way about his prospects. He also has Beat The Bell to worry about, who looks very well treated based on his Windsor romp earlier this week.

Half an hour later, in the juvenile maiden (2.25pm), Press Release makes his racecourse debut. Also trained by Tom, he has shown enough at home to win a maiden, but has also been slow to get to grips with the start, so unless he can overcome that trait, a promising mid-field finish is all we're realistically anticipating.

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Tags: Coconut Ice, Leicester, Press Release, Richard Fahey, Ripon, Sunrise Safari, Tom Dascombe