Gordon Brown – Race Reporter
Gordon has a wealth of experience of racing through his background in the written and broadcast media. His current principle role is reporting and supporting the scene in Scotland on Racing TV and relaying the latest news with Scottish angles.
Paul Mulrennan bids for a fifth victory in the last decade in the Unite The Union Winning For Members EBF Land O’Burns Fillies Stakes at Ayr.
He partners top-rated Electric Storm for Newmarket trainer James Tate in the £50,000 Listed event, which is staged over five-furlongs.
Mulrennan, who forced Azure Blue up on the line to dead-heat with Beautiful Diamond twelve months ago, has also landed the contest outright in the past on Marsha (2016), Que Amoro (2020) and Makarova (2023).
Electric Storm, who holds a Group 2 entry in Ireland next month, finished in fourth place – a neck in front of Mulrennan’s recent Royal Ascot Group 1 hero American Affair – at Haydock four weeks ago.
A pound below Electric Storm on 104, is First Instinct, another trained in Newmarket by William Haggas. On the same Haydock card, she was a close third 30 minutes earlier in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes.
Irish handler Fozzy Stack, whose Son Of Rest dead-heated with Baron Bolt in the 2018 Ayr Gold Cup, is represented by first-time blinkered Grande Marques.
Stack’s only other previous winner at Ayr came in the shape of Piece Of Paradise in the 2019 Listed Harry Rosebery Stakes.
The remaining runner with a three-figure mark is 100-rated Enchanting. Ridden by Hollie Doyle and trained by Andrew Balding, she steps up in class after an impressive display in handicap company at Goodwood in May.