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Top trainer Richard Fahey is aiming to turn on the style on Ladies Day at Thirsk on Saturday when he saddles Third Time Lucky in the featured Personal Touches Handicap.
While racegoers will be dressed to impress in hopes of winning some of the top prizes on offer for the Best Dressed Lady and Gentleman, which is always a popular centrepiece to the final day of the season at the North Yorkshire track, Fahey hopes his grey charmer will be strutting its stuff.
The Malton handler looks sure to finish as leading trainer for the season at Thirsk with 11 winners to his name at the track this year and a win for Third Time Lucky would certainly put the gloss on it.
“He could be my only runner of the day at Thirsk this weekend” said Fahey, “although I do have a couple in the two-year-old race who might go, but one of them is sweating on the ballot.
“Third Time Lucky definitely runs, though. He has come out of his race at Goodwood well and is in really good order so we have to be very hopeful of a big run from him”.
The three-year-old showed a liking for Thirsk on his only previous visit to the track when finishing second to Caius College Girl as a two-year-old, while he has been in really good form this season.
He reeled off a hat-trick of wins from his first three starts at Musselburgh and Leicester and though he will be running off a career-high mark of 90 on Saturday, that is only 1lb more than on his previous start when he was an eye-catching fourth in the Turf Club Handicap at Glorious Goodwood.
He looked like he might be the winner that day as he led the big field into the final furlong, but in a desperate finish of three heads, was relegated to fourth place in the dying strides. A repeat of that run will make him hard to beat on Saturday.
Ladies Day is always a showy occasion at Thirsk and as well as carrying off a top prize on the day, the winner will go forward to represent the course in the Go Racing In Yorkshire Best Dressed Lady final at Doncaster on October 24.
Racing at Thirsk gets underway at 1.55 on Saturday, with the last race at 5.25.