Ellison Could Enhance Excellent Record At Catterick

Brian Ellison is a trainer that usually does well with his team at Catterick, and he has a 20% strike rate with 16 winners from 80 runners there in the last 5 seasons. Silvestre De Sousa, the man going all out for the jockey's championship, is on board today's fancy, and he has a similarly impressive strike rate when riding for Ellison, 22% with 30 wins from 134 rides. They team up with Rock On Bollinski on Wednesday afternoon, and he could be set to run a big race.

He was beaten just a nose on heavy ground in a 14.5f bumper at Newcastle on debut, and again ran well in another bumper on his second run, on heavy ground. His flat career to date hasn't exactly been impressive, but he has been racing mainly on quick ground and today's surface should show him in a much better light. 

He shaped encouragingly at Thirsk on his third maiden run, keeping on well over 12f (good)and looking as if a step up in trip would suit. His seasonal reappearance was very disappointing, on soft at the same venue, but on his penultimate run at Beverley, when De Sousa rode and he was just 4/1, he wasn't beaten that far at all, and again shaped as though a step up in trip was required. 

He gets that today, and combined with the soft ground and his rapidly declining mark it could well result in a bold show. He is now 12lb lower than his opening mark of 72, and dropped back into class 5 company he looks well worth an interest at 12/1. 

STEVOS' SELECTION: 3.10 CATTERICK- ROCK ON BOLLINSKI (12/1).