Market Rasen Preview

Tim Vaughan is enjoying a rich vein of form at the moment and has his eyes on the totesport.com Summer Plate at Market Rasen.

The Vale of Glamorgan trainer has saddled six winners in the last two weeks and is triple-handed with Picaroon, War Of The World and Irish import Ballyagran in the valuable handicap chase.

"Picaroon is quite high in the handicap for the form he has actually shown, but he has done everything very well and is a progressive type of horse. Hopefully he can run really well," said Vaughan.

"War Of The World fell at Cheltenham last year and has had a few niggly problems. He's had ulcers this summer as well, but he seems to be coming back to his best now. I would have liked another month with him, but he is going the right way and he has a heck of an engine.

"Ballyagran has shown some great form in the past (when trained by Noel Meade). He was second in a Galway Plate after a long lay-off. It wouldn't surprise me if he ran well too. He's as fit as I can get him having had two years off and I'm hoping he will run well."

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The trainer said: "He's a shadow of his former self, but there were grounds to suggest everything was coming right. He's run some very good races in defeat, but he had a bad fall at Ludlow which didn't help. Then he had a confidence-boosting run over the brush-style hurdles last time.

"At times you do get glimpses of a good piece of work which suggests he is stones in on his handicap mark, but what we see on the track is different to what we see at home. I've had my eye on this race and we've got a great racing weight, but I go there more in hope than expectation."

Williams has more obvious claims in the totescoop6 Summer Hurdle with Tiger O'Toole, who is on a hat-trick after wins at Southwell and Stratford.

He went on: "He's in serious form, but it's a very good race. He's a nice horse and I feel there's a big race in him. I also run Nordwind, who ran well last week. He's not as classy as Tiger O'Toole, but he has a feather weight and that could be worth a lot."