Hello, pilgrims. Really decent card in the county tomorrow and I’ll nominate one in the Group contest for 2YO fillies. I’ve put her up on both her previous racecourse appearances and really think she can take the next step forward of the morrow.
LA RIOJA (3.45 Salisbury) – created a very good impression on her debut with a close 2nd behind a more experienced Richard Hannon hotpot. La Rioja learned a lot from this outing and built on that to run out a devastatingly impressive scorer at Newbury next time. Easily brushing aside her opponents by 5 lengths and more. That form looks very solid as well as the 3rd and 4th home, across the county line in Royal Berkshire, have both won since. La Rioja will need to improve to figure at this elevated level but I would imagine that she would be more than capable of achieving this. Also looks more than competent on breeding as her half sisters include Lilbourne Lass (Listed placed and finished 2nd in Newbury’s ‘Super Sprint’) and Pastoral Girl (Listed and Group placed). Both these fillies also won with the word ‘soft’ in the going descriptor so conditions should not faze La Rioja at all. A very exciting filly who could be on the brink of being classed very good indeed.
Good luck all.