TEAM'S A PLAYER

Balding's improver has a Top chance at Thirsk

- JASON HEAVEY

BE on the side of TOPTEAM (4.38, nb) as he bids to complete his hat-trick in the Power Plastics Ltd Handicap at Thirsk this afternoon.

The three-year-old trained by Andrew Balding (below) looked fairly ordinary in three novice starts, but that did allow him to enter the handicap sphere off a mark of 72 and he has taken full advantage with back-to-back wins at Chester.