Louis out to defy rise in handicap

HENRY Candy is hoping L’Ami Louis can overcome an increase in his rating when he tackles handicap company for the first time at Newmarket today.

The three-year-old gelding was originally given a mark of 80 but that was amended to 83 after Foxtrot Hotel, who he beat by a neck at Salisbury, won at Newbury last Saturday.

“I’m pleased with him and he appears to have come on well,” said the Wantage trainer.