Hamilton grabs winning chance at Beverley

Tony Hamilton came in for a winning spare ride aboard Granny Peel in the Racing UK On Channel 432 Claiming Stakes at Beverley.

With Neil Callan held up on the way to East Yorkshire from London, where he was acting as a witness at an appeal hearing for Jamie Spencer, Hamilton was seen to good effect aboard Kevin Ryan’s filly, who stayed on well to land the spoils as an 11-4 favourite.

Despite looking ill at ease going down to the stalls, Granny Peel showed good speed throughout the five-furlong dash before stretching clear to win with three lengths in hand of runner-up Bowl Em Over.

“Tony must have been thinking ‘why on earth is he running this?’ before the start, but it was a different proposition at the end,” smiled Ryan.

“She’s moved like that since day one but she’s very tough.”

It was the two-year-old’s third consecutive success following victories at Leicester and Wolverhampton in May.