North Yorkshire trainer Roger Fell is
in decent form at present, with a 6-19 (32%) strike rate in the last
14 days, and may be able to improve that record with Zylan in
the Polyflor Handicap (3.35) at Ayr on Monday. The son of top-class
sprinter Kyllachy had no answer to Exprompt in the closing stages at
Hamilton last time, but only succumbed in the last hundred yards, on
the severe hill to the finish, at the South Lanarkshire course and
may be better suited by this less rigorous test of stamina. The third
horse home that day, Red Force One, was only beaten two necks in a
0-80 lady amateur riders’ handicap at Chester on Friday, which
augurs well for Zylan as he steps back up into 0-85 company.
In fact, the six-year-old won in this
grade, over 6 furlongs at Southwell, off a handicap mark of 83 in
April, so he should be competitive off a mark of 80, especially with
Conor Murtagh taking off a useful 5lb. Zylan has been campaigned, at
least until recently, over sprint distances this season, but showed
when winning over 7½ furlongs at Beverley on his penultimate start
that this sort of distance, especially on a flat track, is well
within his compass. He’s drawn in the outside stall but one, which
should, theoretically, put him at a disadvantage running around a
tight left hand bend but, paradoxically, this doesn’t appear to be
the case at Ayr.
Selection: Ayr 3.35 Zylan
to win 10/3
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