York tips for Friday: La Rioja ready to roll

Now in the care of Paul Midgley, Gamesome is able to race in this lower grade affair off a reduced rating of 93.

That gives the five-year-old major claims from a handicapping perspective, and Gamesome comes into the race on the back of an improved effort when fading late on to finish fourth in a 6f contest at Ayr.

If building on that, Gamesome looks weighted to run a huge race now dropped back to the minimum trip.

De Veer Cliffs weighted to deliver

In the 1m 2f handicap (15.30), De Veer Cliffs can take advantage of what looks a lenient mark to land the spoils.

The Martyn Meade trained filly shaped really well on her sole start as a juvenile when chasing home subsequent Oaks runner-up Architecture.

De Veer Cliffs threw down a persistent challenge to go down by 1 1/2 lengths, and duly built on that promise to make a winning return to action at Nottingham when scoring eased down by 1 1/4 lengths.

The three-year-old has been allotted an opening handicap mark of 82 on the back of those efforts, and given that Architecture is now rated 114 it makes the unexposed De Veer Cliffs looks potentially thrown-in at the weights.

York tips

13.50: Naafer
14.20: Rosebride
14.55: Gamesome (E/W)
15.30: De Veer Cliffs (NB)
16.00: La Rioja (NAP)
16.30: Pinzolo
17.05: London Protocol

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