Horse Racing Tips: Count on Cowboy to ride into town at Ayr

• Whillans winners may continue to flow at Ayr

• Race could set up nicely for wily Wyvern

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Ayr, 16:05 - Back Cowboy Cooper @ 9/43.25

Trainer Donald Whillans has enjoyed an excellent start to the new year and Cowboy Cooper looks a fair bet to gun down his rivals in this handicap.

The Hawick handler has only sent out 11 runners to date this year, but four have won, including the evergreen 10-year-old who captured his second course victory in style early last month when scoring by six lengths in the hands of Craig Nichol.

Nichol has partnered three of those four Whillans winners (from seven rides) and is the only rider to have won on Cowboy Cooper so it is a positive that combination is maintained this afternoon.

The selection had hinted his time was around the corner with a creditable effort at Musselburgh before Christmas and that seemingly modest 0-100 handicap has worked out wonderfully well with the runner-up, Uptown Harry, obliging since along with fourth-home Marty McFly who has won twice.

Even Reflection Of You (7th) got in on the act to boost the form and with Cowboy Cooper's effectiveness at Ayr assured and his form figures at three miles now reading 763211031, he ought to make his presence felt once more.

Newcastle, 18:15 - Back Wyvern @ 9/110.00

All five of Wyvern's career victories have been recorded when he has returned to the track within 18 days, so a ten-day gap from his last run looks just about ideal.

The seven-year-old clearly takes his racing pretty well and appears to have an each-way shout in this wide-open handicap, especially as the winning machine Aisling Oscar is no longer in his way.

The son of Bated Breath has bumped in to Adrian Keatley's seven-time course winner on three occasions at Gosforth Park and, although he has performed well in the face of a clearly very well handicapped rival, he has found the task beyond him.

Hopefully, this event offers more of a winning opportunity for Pat Morris' gelding and the presence of Tasever, Powerful Response, Triggerman and Electric Avenue could all combine to produce a pace for him to charge at late under young Cian Horgan who ended a barren spell in the saddle with a tidy success at Lingfield on Saturday.

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