BACK Kings Harmony to make a winning return to Brighton today. The three year old took to this tricky, switchback track like a natural on his last visit in April. He handled the tight turn and pronounced gradients with aplomb, making all to land a conditions race with plenty to spare.
So it is surprising Peter Makin has not brought him back to the seaside track since, preferring to campaign the gelding on more conventional courses.
Not that Kings Harmony is without hope elsewhere. He has run a number of good races since notably when a close second in a big field at Windsor.
But both times he found his stamina giving way in the closing stages and left the impression coming back to a course which puts the emphasis on speed would suit him.
Returned to East Sussex on a reasonable mark for the Hanningtons of Brighton Handicap, Kings Harmony looks to have been found a good opportunity to resume winning ways.
. Tony McCoy begins a six day whip ban tomorrow and vowed "to give up getting suspensions - it's a bad habit," at Newton Abbot yesterday.
The champion jockey, stood down by the Galway stewards last week, signed off from action with an 88 to 1 hat trick aboard Springfield Dancer, Wakt, and Verde Luna around the Devon circuit.
When asked how he would spend his enforced holiday McCoy replied: "I'm going home to my parents for a break in Co Antrim and I'll be sitting on a few horses for Jim Bolger while I'm over there.
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