Dave Nevison tips: get ready for Rousing Encore

Tele Red won this apprentices’ race last season off a 1lb higher mark and has every chance of staging a repeat with his yard flush from winning two of biggest handicaps of the season in the past couple of weeks. 

Karl Burke has only managed to get four runs into Tele Red this term, the best of which came under Sam Feilden, who resumes the partnership, on his reappearance in July. 

Feilden has won on him in the past and the combination have lucked out with a good draw in stall 3. The combination may well get an uncontested lead, too. 

The last time Paul Mulrennan teamed up with Soowaih over this course and distance, the combination missed the break. As a consequence, the pair were always on the back foot until staying on late, but too late to make a challenge. 

Since then, Jim Goldie has upped him in trip but he clearly has not stayed 2m on a couple of occasions. Soowaih will be well suited by dropping in trip. 

If Mulrennan keeps him closer to the pace this time, his mount is well enough handicapped to be able to end a long losing run. 

He is 3lb lower than he was in the summer and ran a good enough race over two furlongs further last time to suggest he is holding his form into the autumn. 

Rousing Encore seems unlikely to hit the heights of his second spot in the Group Two Mill Reef Stakes he achieved as a juvenile, but his recent move to the Ruth Carr yard might have been just what he needed to boost his confidence to judge by a good effort last time at Redcar. 

That recent run was just the second for his new yard and he was beaten less than two lengths into fifth position behind a very well backed Ed Bethell-trained favourite. 

He is 2lb better off with Act Of Violence for less than a length but if he is on the way back to recovering some of his form he may improve past that rival here. He should be a decent price into the bargain.