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The bet365 Cambridgeshire is a difficult puzzle to solve with 35 runners lining-up. There aren’t a huge amount of significant trends in this race, but it’s generally advantageous to have a horse that stays a 1m 2f and with no obvious draw bias on the straight track, it seems wise…

This is the time of year the Aidan O’Brien yard’s juveniles hit top gear, as his progeny of champion sire Galileo begin to boss the staying two-year-olds divisions. There’s top-class racing at Newmarket tomorrow and plenty of sons and grandsons of the late Scatt Daddy are amongst the favourites, including…

The Ayr Gold Cup has only seen two favourites win since the 80’s and you have to think Fozzy Stack’s raider Son Of Rest can go close because he is now officially 10lbs well-in for his second place finish in a Group 1 at the Curragh last weekend. He has…

Newbury’s 2.20 can go to EXTRA ELUSIVE at a very backable price of 8/1. He beat some good horses on soft ground as a juvenile, so shouldn’t fear any rain, and looked dynamite last time out on the all-weather when quickening eye-catchingly well off a slow pace. This looks winnable as the…

NATURALLY HIGH can land the Group Two Prix Neil and put a disappointing run in the French Derby behind him. Returned home very sick from that encounter, I am drawing a line through that run and instead focusing on the promise he showed when coming from last to first in…

The precursor to the Irish Champion Stakes is the Group 2 Clipper Logistics Boomerang Stakes and it looks pretty competitive with Dermot Weld’s Making Light the current 3/1 favourite. She put in a career best performance to take a Listed race on her previous outing at Cork and has scope for improvement.…

Karl Burke’s UNFORTUNATELY hasn’t had a great season, after promising so much as a juvenile when winning the Prix Morny. He missed the break in the Commonwealth Cup and couldn’t get competitive, while his Group One assignment at Deauville was more than underwhelming – he came home 10th in both…

Eclipse and Juddmonte International winner Roaring Lion heads over to Ireland to take on Coolmore’s best in the Group One Irish Champion Stakes. Qatar Racing’s colt has proven himself to be very good at this 10-furlong trip, and it would take a leap of faith and a fair few excuses…

PEACH TREE looks a peachy bet at 5/1 for the Group Two May Hill Stakes at Doncaster on Thursday. She’s trained by the back-in-form Aidan O’Brien, whose yard has been plagued by illness through this flat season, and I’ve no doubt that fact will ensure there are plenty of overpriced runners…

There’s a feast of top-class flat racing action coming up this weekend with Doncaster hosting the British season’s final Classic, the St Leger, Irish Champions weekend across Leopardstown and the Curragh, as well as Arc Trials day at Longchamp. The unfortunate timing of the Irish and British St Legers often…