Racing with Tom O'Ryan

Les Eyre, who sent out Bawsian to win on Knavesmire on Tuesday, can keep up his winning run at Thirsk tomorrow.

The Hambleton trainer saddles Onefourseven in the Helmsley Handicap and this smart stayer is expected to take the spoils for the second successive year.

Onefourseven has finished runner-up in both his races this season, chasing home Katheryn's Pet at Catterick before taking the runner-up honours behind Noufari on the sand at Wolverhampton.

Onefourseven is napped to reverse those placings with Noufari on turf tomorrow - and continue Eyre's fine winning run.

Dean McKeown can ift the featured £10,000 49's Dick Peacock Sprint Handicap aboard Brecongill Lad, trained at Middleham by Micky Hammond.

Previously trained by Sally Hall, Brecongill Lad made his debut for Hammond at Doncaster recently and finished a half length second to Gay Breeze, a previous winner at Nottingham.

Brecongill Lad would not need to improve much on that performance to go one better here.

Course and distance winner Desert Fighter (3.25) and Storyteller (5.30), who was narrowly beaten at Beverley last Saturday, are two others worth noting at Thirsk.

The feature race at Newbury's televised fixture is the Newbury Fillies' Trial in which Jibe can gain her first win of the campaign.

A high-class juvenile last season, Henry Cecil's charge finished third to Cloud Castle on her reappearance in the Nell Gwynn Stakes, but could finish only eighth of the 16 runners behind Cape Verdi in the 1,000 Guineas.

Now set to tackle a mile and a quarter she is worth another chance over this longer distance.

Gorse can prove a thorn in the side of his rivals in the Furlong Club Conditions Stakes.

Henry Candy's sprinter landed quite a gamble on his racecourse bow at Salisbury last week, winning by an impressive nine lengths after being backed down from 10-1 to 11-2.

Gorse faces a much stiffer task tomorrow, but is not one to underestimate.

Kastaway, who is unbeaten in three races this season, can extend her sequence by lifting the Highclere Stud Fillies' Stakes. Carl Lowther again takes the mount on Jack Berry's speedy two-year-old.

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