Joey Ramsden will be two-handed in his bid to win the Somerset 1200 for the fifth successive year at Kenilworth on Saturday.

Greg Cheyne (Nkosi Hlophe)

Ramsden, who has won the two-year-old Listed race with horses of the calibre of Red Ray in the past, runs both last month’s first time out maiden winner Morning Catch (Donovan Dillon) and Speedpoint (Grant van Niekerk) who followed up his win in March by running Dutch Philip to half a length in a winners’ race in the middle of last month and will now be 2kg better.

Dutch Philip (Aldo Domeyer) has to give weight all round and as much as 4kg to the three maidens in the race. These include Greg Cheyne’s mount Kasimir who represents Snaith Racing whose most recent Somerset success came with the subsequent L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Gimmethegreenlight in 2011.

Jonathan Snaith said: “Kasimir has been second twice and we are looking for a good run. He has a good chance at the weights.”

The Philippi stable’s Angel’s Trumpet is the only non-winner among the eight declared for the fillies equivalent, the Perfect Promise Sprint, and Bernard Fayd’Herbe rides. He won last year’s race on The Merry Widow for the Snaiths as well as the 2012 running on Hammie’s Hooker.

By Michael Clower