Spencer is Chief pointer (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Spencer is Chief pointer

11:26am Saturday 12th April 2008 in

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<p>A CLUTCH of horses that were trained specifically for the Lincoln meeting at Doncaster last month are out again and the most of the talking is about DON'T PANIC, who sensationally hacked up on the Town Moor mile.</p>
<p>That run was a second faster and with a stone heavier than the Lincoln winner Smokey Oakey - and a repetition of that effort probably would be good enough here - surely at least to beat Lincoln second Blythe Knight.</p>
<p>Nothing is ever that simple though.</p>
<p>Trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam sets punters a poser by also running Medicine Path, who has top jockey Jeremy Spencer on board.</p>
<p>Medicine Path is entered for the top mile contest, the Lockinge, and his career is very much back in the ascendancy - back to something like when he ran Derby victor Authorized to three lengths.</p>
<p>He also has a blistering turn of foot as shown when he destroyed his rivals at Kempton on his reutnr last month.</p>
<p>Throw into the mix that fact that Arundel handler John Dunlop has won this race four times in six years and saddles a Group 3 horses in Tell.</p>
<p>But the speed that DON'T PANIC showed suggests he's going to be a coming force in mile events at any level and he gets the vote to follow-up.</p>
<p>Spencer can oblige with Mark Wallace's sprint handicapper CHIEF EDITOR (3.30). The Tomba gelding won an £8,000 race at Wolverhampton last November is the style of a very useful type.
He had a bit more to spare than the neck verdict suggests, but the margin means the handicapper has not been too harsh.</p>
<p>He can go on to better things and must go close with the top jockey on board.</p>
<p>Kempton's Easter Stakes is the destination for IL WARRD to give Marcus Tregoning's stable a bit of a boost.
After Sir Percy's Derby win things have been very quiet for the stable, but this Pivotal colt is bred to go places. He was not seen at his best behind hotpot Rio De La Plata (pulled too hard after being bumped), but had skated up at Ascot and looked the sort to improve with a winter under his belt.</p>
<p>I'm baffled why PELICAN WATERS goes for a Listed race at Newbury (2.10) with the likes of Michael Stoute's Heaven Sent in the field.</p>
<p> Any sort of prominent run will ruin her favourable handicap mark, but ignoring the formbook I trust that Ed Vaughan knows what he is doing (well small each-way trust that might be).</p>
<p>VITZNAU (3.55) looked a picture before running unplaced in the Lincoln and can defy top weight at the same meeting.</p>
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