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Iris Dancer bid to grab the course record haul all to herself at Hamilton Park. The Cumbria raider currently shares a modern-day best nine wins at the South Lanarkshire venue with Jim Goldie’s speedster Jordan Electrics. All her track wins have come over today’s trip of six-furlongs as she returns from an all-weather debut flop at Newcastle last time. So she should be more at home in this fillies’ handicap in which there is plenty of course and distance form on offer. “She’s a completely different horse on courses with a hill such as Hamilton and Carlisle where she has also won a race,” the seven-year-old’s trainer Tristan Davidson said. “At home she doesn’t take a lot of work so she keeps herself fit. “As she’s not the biggest, we try and organise her programme around slightly better races so that she doesn’t have big weights to carry. “She’s already won three times this Hamilton this season and it will probably take a career-best to win again. But the syndicate involved have had plenty of fun with her already and some of them are local to the track.” There is even more course and distance form on parade in the five-furlong dash with seven of the line-up previously successful at this minimum trip. Iain Jardine saddles two of them in the shape of Zaphea and recent scorer Giselles Izzy while Rebecca Menzies-trained mare Kyber Crystal bids to follow up last year’s cosy success in the same race. The longest race on the card is the 1m 4f handicap and it features Jaminoz try for a hat-trick following his strikes over shorter here and at Carlisle.


























































