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York supporting races: Almosh’her sets up Ebor bid
By Racing TV
Last Updated: Wed 14 May 2025
Karl Burke made a winning start to the new season at York as his fresh recruit Almosh’her got the better of a ding-dong battle with Stressfree in the Sky Bet Race To The Ebor Jorvik Handicap.
A dual winner from three all-weather starts for Charlie Fellowes, the four-year-old was a 15-2 shot for his first start since moving from Newmarket to North Yorkshire and displayed a willing attitude once challenged to make a successful stable debut by a head in the hands of Clifford Lee.
Burke said: “That’s a good start to the season here, hopefully it continues!
“He got sent to us from Charlie’s, who had done very well with him so it’s unfortunate for him, but we can only deal with what is put in front of us."
Burke continued: “He’s a lovely horse but he’s still a big baby and came with a reputation of being a live-wire. He has settled into our routine and is better than when he first came, but we didn’t know what he’d be like at the races. He’s done things OK but hopefully he’ll get better.
“That was a win-and-you’re-in for the Ebor, so we’ll be working back from that if he stays that sort of trip, but he needs to learn to race properly.”
Rousing Encore has last word
Plenty of very well-known sprinters lined up in the Churchill Tyres Handicap but it was Ruth Carr’s Rousing Encore (22-1) who came out on top.
Having been with Richard Fahey as a youngster, for whom he finished sixth in the 2022 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, he finished strongly to beat Dark Thirty by a length and a quarter.
On having a winner at York, Carr said: “When you’re a Yorkshire lass, it’s proper! I’ve only had a handful of winners here – if you don’t have a runner at York, you don’t have a winner at York, but you tend to think you can find an easier race somewhere else as we have plenty of tracks in Yorkshire.
“I thought we were probably drawn on the wrong side today and he likes some cover, but we didn’t want to be too far back as it’s hard to make up ground on a fast track and fast ground.
“But Jimmy (Sullivan) gave him a lovely ride and edged over onto the rail. I thought ‘this is looking good’ as he was travelling and the horse put his head down and battled well.
“We can look at races like the Great St Wilfrid (at Ripon) and there are plenty of other good six-furlong races for us to go at.”
Ballistic Missile hits target
Ballistic Missile (11-2) may have earned himself a place on Richard Hannon’s Royal Ascot squad after coming from last to first to make a winning debut in the British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes.
Hannon said: “He’s a nice colt, he’s my first horse for the owners (Zhang Yuesheng) and hopefully he’s a very nice horse. If mine win first time, they are generally quite useful and he is one that will particularly improve for the run.
“I thought he was going to run horribly for a minute. He actually wasn’t that slow away leaving the gate, but the next 200 yards is when you win or lose a race and he was clueless. He was off the bridle the whole way, but going by the line I was impressed.”
On a potential appearance at Royal Ascot, he added: “He’s got to be one of those as he’ll improve a lot and he looks like he’ll improve for a step up to six (furlongs), although a stiff five would suit him.”
Richard Hughes had earlier denied his old boss Hannon by a nose in the Conundrum HR Consulting Handicap, with the Hughes-trained 10-1 shot Rare Change supplementing a recent Windsor success at the chief expense of Hannon’s Best Rate.
However, Hannon claimed a second winner on the card with Great Bedwyn, who scored at 9-2 under Sean Levey as the Stuey Weston & Friends Getting Out Handicap brought day one of the Dante Festival to a close.
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