BOBBY JOE LEG is ripe for a fourth course-and-distance victory in the Bombardier British Hopped Amber Beer Apprentice Handicap (7.30) over Newcastle Tapeta clearly suits Ruth Carr’s son of Pastoral Pursuits - in addition to three scores over Gosforth Park’s seven furlongs, he has a six-furlong win here and two successes at Wolverhampton on his CV.
After a near miss, again over a course and distance, on January 21, Bobby Joe Leg went one better with a length-and-a-half margin over With Promise a week later.
The handicapper has reacted with a 4lb rise in the weights, but Harry Russell’s mount has won from higher marks in the past.
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