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.
Course record-holder Glasses Up is out to continue his remarkable love affair with Ayr for in-form Galston trainer Mike Smith.
The Jason Hart-ridden ten-year-old, who posted track wins nine and ten within a four-day spree earlier this spring, bids to hoist his tally even higher in the Follow @RacingTV On X Handicap over 1m 2f.
“Although he has won over shorter and further, and at other tracks, this is favoured course and distance,” Smith said. “I’d like to think there are more wins to come and it would be nice to get the record so high that nobody will ever beat it!”
His recent wins have moved Glasses Up two clear of Redarna, Tommy G and Goninodaethat with only the former, an eleven-year-old trained by Dianne Sayer, still racing.
Rivals to Glasses Up includes previous course and distance winners Pol Roger, trained by Michael Dods, and Jim Goldie-trained Sophiesticate, who carrries the colours of the Ayr Racecourse Club.
James Doyle, who broke his collarbone in a fall at Chelmsford on April 18, returns to action on Underwriter in the Racing TV Profits Returned To Racing Maiden Stakes.
The colt, trained in Lambourn by Archie Watson, was a £200,000 purchase last month for Wathnan Racing, for whom Doyle is number one retained jockey.