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.
Asteverdi bids to make a winning debut for Hugo Palmer in the Summer Mile Handicap at Ayr on Sunday.
The filly has left Alice Haynes since her comfortable victory on soft ground at Nottingham in late October last season.
The Cheshire raider is the first of four booked rides for Billy Loughnane, whose 18 previous mounts have yielded four winners at the west of Scotland venue.
In a fiercely competitive £16,000 contest, top-weight Theoryofeverything and Eve’s Boy may give Asteverdi most to do.
The opening Hadley’s Nursery Run Amateur Jockeys’ Handicap sees Woohoo attempt to land her fifth win from her last six starts.
Jim Goldie’s filly has already struck this term at Ayr twice and once at both Hamilton Park and Musselburgh.