VELOCISTAR is fancied to make full use of the return to Fibresand to win Southwell’s Get Your Ladbrokes Daily Odds Boost Nursery Handicap (3.25) today.
The Fibresand surface’s days may be numbered - Southwell’s owners, Arena Racing Company, have announced plans to replace it with Tapeta - but there's no doubt some horses love it.
Velocistar certainly took to it like a duck to water when landing a course-and-distance nursery in the middle of last month, beating Upside Down by a couple of lengths.
Steph Hollinshead’s daughter of daughter of Starspangledbanner didn’t repeat that form on Tapeta at Wolverhampton a week later - but she’s worth another chance now she goes back to Rolleston.
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