PERTEMPS Networks can set alight a rather humdrum beginning to the new Flat season at Catterick.
Whatever the baffling motives behind kicking off in North Yorkshire rather than at Doncaster on Saturday, at least Mick Easterby can be relied upon to add a dash of colour to proceedings.
Easterby’s horses are usually as hard to assess as the man himself, but Pertemps Networks could this season emerge an utterly likeable sort for the ruler of Sheriff Hutton.
Although he must overcome a 151-day hiatus, the sevenyear- old is arguably one of the most progressive contenders in the line-up for the William Hill Handicap.
That may seem a rather silly claim given Pertemps Networks’ advancing years, but the versatile gelding has only been seen nine times on the grass.
On two of those occasions he has found the winner’s enclosure, while his narrow defeat in a really good race at York last October won him many new admirers – especially given the testing conditions on the Knavesmire that day.
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