Windsor preview: Eastern Impact can sprint to success

Windsor stages a cracking seven-race card this evening, and northern raider Eastern Impact looks decent value to land the Listed 6f feature contest (19.25).

The Richard Fahey trained gelding won a couple of competitive handicaps at Newmarket last year, and produced a career-best effort when scoring at the same venue on his seasonal reappearance.

Eastern Impact raced out wide in touch before taking up the running entering the final furlong and showing a tremendous attitude to dig deep an beat Huntsmans Close by a short-head in a valuable 22-runner affair.

It was a most likeable effort which suggested the four-year-old could have even more to offer, and the son of Bahamian Bounty looks well worth a crack at this level.

Eastern Impact also has a good strike rate at the trip having won three wins from seven starts over it, and his Yorkshire-based handler does well with the few runners he sends to the track.

Fahey has an overall strike rate of just under 20 per cent at the venue, and with the ground fine and Tony Hamilton in the saddle everything looks in place for a big run.

Besharah looked a smart prospect when winning on her debut and can book her ticket to Royal Asco by landing the 5f contest that opens proceedings (17.55).

The filly is trained by the in-form William Haggas and showed a smart turn of foot to beat Kassia by 1 1/4 lengths at Ascot last month in a competitive 13-runner contest.

Besharah was well on top at the finish and scored with far more in hand than the winning margin suggests, and the runner-up and fourth home Dream Dreamer have both come out and won since to give the form a solid look.