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BetMGM 80s Day Saturday 29 August Handicap · 7f · Good to Firm
£6,019 to winner · 3yo+ · 0-85 · rated 73-85
🎯 Draw: no strong draw bias (low 32% v high 38% of wins · 117 races)
🏁 Result won by 3 ¼ · time 1m 29.27sHeld up in touch, ridden over 1f out, headway 1f out, led final furlong, soon went clear
📍 Course guide
Favours front-runners on flat and jumps, especially the sprint course where draw helps.
Flat · top trainers
J & T Gosden 20% (81) · A M Balding 13% (116) · W J Haggas 20% (66) · R M Beckett 18% (67)
Flat · top jockeys
Oisin Murphy 16% (139) · W Buick 18% (115) · Rossa Ryan 15% (103) · R L Moore 22% (60)
3-year course record · attheraces guides

1 Desert Shadow (4)
10st-2lb · OR 85 · 4yo
Oisin Murphy · S bin Suroor · v
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1st/6 ran 5/2
form 22-0521

6 Thursday Girl (3)
9st-1lb · OR 76 · 3yo
K Shoemark · E Walker
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2nd/6 ran +3 ¼ 3/1
form 5-2221

4 Ascending Star (6)
9st-5lb · OR 80 · 3yo
Callum Rodriguez · Owen Burrows
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3rd/6 ran +nk 4/1
form 33-13

2 Tavana (2)
9st-9lb · OR 84 · 3yo
S M Levey · E Smyth-Osbourne
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4th/6 ran +4 ¼ 7/1
form 74-9082

3 Sunny Smile (1)
9st-5lb · OR 80 · 3yo
David Probert · H Palmer · p,t
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5th/6 ran 7/1
form 142-022

5 Lunario (5)
9st-4lb · OR 73 · 6yo
Marco Ghiani · L A Dace · t,v
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6th/6 ran 6/1
form 8-97001
Race note