← card15:54 Ripon
Wilmot-Smith Memorial Handicap · 6f · Good (Good to Firm in places)
£9,277 to winner · 3yo+ · 0-95 · rated 77-94
🎯 Draw: no strong draw bias (low 27% v high 37% of wins · 172 races)
🏁 Result won by 1 ¾ · time 1m 9.68sMade all, pressed throughout, pushed along 2f out, ridden approaching final furlong, stayed on well and asserted 110yds out
📍 Course guide
Sharp, undulating; favours front-runners attacking from the ridge late.
Flat · top trainers
T D Easterby 10% (364) · R A Fahey 14% (119) · D O'Meara 13% (119) · K R Burke 20% (60)
Flat · top jockeys
D Allan 12% (191) · D Tudhope 32% (56) · D Nolan 15% (99) · Jason Hart 14% (93)
3-year course record · attheraces guides

3 Lord Roxby (2)
9st-5lb · OR 85 · 4yo
Alex Jary · N Tinkler
✓5Dtrkdstgngcls

1 Dark Cloud Rising (6)
10st-0lb · OR 94 · 4yo
D Tudhope · D O'Meara · v
✓5CDtrkdstgngclsTRB
2nd/7 ran +1 ¾ 11/10
form 090U13

2 Commanche Falls (1)
9st-11lb · OR 91 · 9yo
Connor Beasley · M Dods · p
✓5CDtrkdstgngcls
3rd/7 ran +nse 20/1
form 9-22070

7 Grant Wood (5)
8st-11lb · OR 77 · 7yo
Jason Hart · P T Midgley
✓4CDtrkdstgng
4th/7 ran +hd 50/1
form 483000

5 Rousing Encore (3)
9st-3lb · OR 83 · 6yo
J P Sullivan · Mrs R Carr
✓4Ddstgngcls
5th/7 ran 14/1
form 504030

4 Saint Lawrence (4)
9st-3lb · OR 83 · 8yo
Shane Gray · K A Ryan · b
✓5Dtrkdstgngcls
6th/7 ran 6/1
form 709-205

6 Boston Dan (7)
9st-0lb · OR 84 · 3yo
Sean Kirrane · T D Easterby
✓4trkdstgngcls
7th/7 ran 14/1
form 7-90004
Race note