Handicap snip Spartacus books Irish trip

Im Spartacus looked to be a handicap snip before the betfair.com Stakes at York today and so it proved as the Chester runner-up battled to a convincing victory.

As from tomorrow Im Spartacus will race off a rating of 105 as a result of his short-head second to leading Vodafone Derby fancy Gypsy King in last week’s Dee Stakes, and therefore on figures he was 21lb well-in here.