There is just a single handicap on the Newmarket card on Friday afternoon and it is shoved at the end of the seven-race card, but it will be worth the wait if Archie (5.20) can get a bit more luck in running than he has enjoyed in his recent starts.
Tom Clover’s six-year-old is a hold-up horse and that comes with its risks, and he has yet to add a handicap success to his single career victory in a maiden at Haydock in June 2014, on the first of his 16 starts. He started out on a mark of 93, however, and has now dropped down the weights to 79 while showing clear signs on his two latest outings that he has win in him off this kind of mark.
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