Lightfoot Elle carries the highest composite score on today's card at 76, and the case for her is written plainly in the form book. Trained by I Zivkovic and racing out of trap 6 at Kinsley in the 19:33 Handicap over 462m, she has been in the frame in all six of her last starts at this exact track and trip: two wins, three seconds and a third, with winning times as fast as 27.95. That's not a dog finding form, it's a dog holding it.
What stands out is how tight her figures are race to race - no bad runs, no outliers, just a consistent pattern of racing prominently and seeing it through. Handicap company can be unpredictable because of the staggered starts, but a dog who keeps turning up in the shake-up regardless of her actual box draw is usually doing something right independent of the trap.
Her main danger on paper is Betweenthe Lines from trap 5, rated 59 on composite, some way back on the numbers but not a runner to dismiss in a race where the model's edge over the second-best score (17 points) is unusually wide. The rest of the field - Crystal Henry, Da Maureens Star, Shady Della and Shrewd Amiee - all sit below 45 on composite, which makes this on paper one of the clearer form pictures on the card.