EQUITRACK freak Love Match, with champion jockey Basil Marcus astride, looks a safe banker bet in the second leg of the Double Trio at Happy Valley tomorrow night.
With racing swinging back into action after an unusual blank weekend, there will be plenty of attention focused on this seven-event card and the popular DT should benefit accordingly.
Love Match is a Class Three galloper allowed to compete in a lower grade because of his present rating and it does put the rising eight-year-old in with a solid chance.
The David Hill-trained gelding has had the benefit of one outing at the city track already this season, finishing just over four lengths from the winner at huge odds in a 1,235-metre event.
That was not the trip or the surface for Love Match but he will have benefited considerably from the outing.
Topweight Royal Pride has been backed and beaten on too many occasions now to suggest he is anything other than a real risk. Claimer W.L. Ho, seen to advantage on Profit Taker last week, takes over but it must be arguable about the 10lb making much difference.