Racing League Tips: Equality finally gets a fair crack

Tregony scored for us last week to get us out of a bit of trouble and end the night at Newcastle in profit, but I was underwhelmed with my performance after having a couple of confident selections.

I want to tread lightly this week because my initial thoughts on the racing were not extremely positive, and I had no strong opinion outside of the opening contest.

Equality is finally drawn right

In the opening 16:30 R22, Equality 5.59/2 makes plenty of appeal now favourably drawn and returned to the scene of his excellent success on seasonal return. Charles Hills' runner has been better than the bare result on multiple occasions this term when annoyingly unfavoured by the draw on his last three outings.

After scoring back in April, he was undone by the slow start - that has become a habit - when he went to Doncaster but stayed on strongly at the death and closed right to the line behind a rival now 13 pounds higher in the handicap.

His third at Epsom in the Dash was excellent from a low draw in stall four - only subsequent winner Mountain Peak did better - and the winner is now rated 21 pounds higher in the handicap.

Connections must have been pulling their hair out when they were drawn in stall three next time at Ascot in the Heritage Handicap in July. He did the best of those (along with Zarzyni) on the far side of the track, and plenty of low-drawn runners have come out of that race to score since.

He was firmly on the radar for Goodwood, but his draw in stall one put me off. He ran a blinder, however, having to circle the field from the rear of the pack and widest of all, only to fade inside the half furlong pole.

There are plenty of excuses for him this season, but there won't be any today as he drops in grade and returns to the scene of his April success.

Today he is drawn well in stall two (action usually develops down the rail here) while his main market rivals are drawn 11 and 12, which means they will have a job on around this dog leg turn. If Marco Ghiani is wise to his habitual slow starts and gets after him early, he should be able to score.