A review of the racing from Ayr where First Sitting won for David O'Meara

News from Tuesday's meeting at Ayr where First Sitting looked a horse ready to make his mark at a higher level.

First Sitting looks a horse ready to make his mark at a higher level after running away with the Racing UK Handicap at Ayr.

Formerly trained by Dermot Weld for Khalid Abdullah, the four-year-old changed hands for 15,000 guineas last October and looks a shrewd purchase by owners Hambleton Racing.

A winner at Hamilton earlier in the year, David O'Meara's charge was the 9-2 favourite to put a couple of below-par efforts behind him and did so with a six-length romp under Danny Tudhope.

Hambleton Racing's Cosmo Charlton said: "He's a very nice horse and I know Danny really rates him. He got off him and said he could develop into a 100-plus (rated) horse, which would be great.

"He hasn't had many runs for us and has been unlucky once or twice. He's a really good, galloping horse - more of a stayer than a horse with a real turn of foot.

"He's going to go up a fair bit (in the weights), I'd have thought, so we'll see where we go from here, but hopefully there's plenty to look forward to with him."

O'Meara and Tudhope doubled up with top-weight Ustinov (100-30 favourite) in the Racing UK Android App racinguk.com Handicap.

Iain Jardine's stable stalwart La Bacouetteuse came from last to first for an unlikely success in the Weddings At Western House Hotel Handicap.

Joint-favourite Braes Of Lochalsh looked the likely victor after committing before the home turn, with 18-1 shot La Bacouetteuse scrubbed along at the rear.

But the picture changed dramatically in the straight and while Braes Of Lochalsh faltered, La Bacouetteuse responded and was eventually well on top as he passed the post two and a quarter lengths clear of Stanarley Pic.

Jardine told Racing UK: "He gave me my first winner in 2011. He was my second ever runner and he won and I think that's 10 races he's won for the yard now.

"He's a lazy horse, but he's a great old boy. He's a dour stayer, but he's showing a lot of enthusiasm."

Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott continued his fantastic run of form as Dove Mountain (2-1 favourite) overcame a tardy start to land division one of the Racing UK Anywhere Available Now Handicap in the hands of Tom Queally.

Elliott said: "He was sluggish out of the stalls and I thought we were going to struggle, but Tom didn't panic and he said when he got him out and got him going he was always going to win."

Compatriot Six Silver Lane (5-1) later held off Let Right Be Done by a neck to take the Watch On 3 Devices racinguk.com Anywhere Apprentice Training Series Handicap for Curragh handler John James Feane and jockey Rowan Scott.

Trainer Wilf Storey and jockey Ian Brennan combined to land the second division with Mr Sundowner.

The 5-1 chance was not winning out of turn following four consecutive placed efforts.

Storey said: "Distance makes no difference to him. I think he'll come back here next week."

The Kevin Ryan-trained Weld Al Khawaneej (7-2) was a decisive winner of the Racing UK Nursery, while the ultra-consistent Edgar Balthazar obliged as the 3-1 favourite in the Western House Hotel Handicap for Keith Dalgleish.