Jim Crowley Saturday rides blog: 'She could well be involved in the business end'

The Jim Crowley Saturday rides blog is back for another week, with the Coral ambassador previewing his four bits of action at York's meet yesterday.

• Calling A Star - York - 13:25 race odds

• Elmonjed - York - 14:00 race odds

• Master Of Combat - York - 16:25 race odds

• Pearly Squirrel - York - 17:00 race odds

My first ride of the day is on Calling For A Star, trained by my old weighing-room mate Richard Hughes, and she’s a 2-y-o filly I think Richard thinks plenty of.  She improved from her debut run to finish fourth here at York last time, not beaten far, and if she can take another step forward here, she could well be involved in the business end for a yard in good form.

This fellow is the main reason I’m at York.  He’s a course and distance winner, and he’s run consistently well in his three starts this season, finishing second at Windsor on the most recent of them last month, with a career best effort.  He’ll have the tongue-tie on him here, which hopefully will help him find a little improvement, and a good run here could well set him up for a crack at the Coral Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood in seven days.

A couple of spare rides to finish the day with.  Master Of Combat has done most of his winning on the all-weather and will need to improve for his run at Haydock last time to feature here.  Pearly Squirrel couldn’t quite cope with a three pound rise for her previous win at Doncaster last time out, but she’s making a quick return so connections must be happy with her.

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