Whilst So Mi Dar was visually impressive in her Musidora victory and certainly deserves her place at Epsom, the race was not truly run and she did well after being too keen early on. Whether the opposition were any good remains to be seen although Fireglow might be a reliable marker.
Magical Memory continued on his upward curve in the Duke Of York but Timeless Son was very disappointing, never really placed to make any sort of a challenge at the business end of the race. Hopefully he will come on for his first start of the season.
Thursday presents the possibility of actually finding something to bet on!
Naturally I hope that Midterm wins the Dante as convincingly as So Mi Dar won the Musidora to cement his position at the top of the Derby market. After a couple of reverses, Foundation is in last chance saloon: if he does not feature this time it will be back to the drawing board. I cannot say that I have any idea why Deauville is representing Ballydoyle as he has been put in his place on a couple of occasions and I see no reason why he should win here – his odds would be treble what they are if he was trained by anyone else. Whilst the field is numerically large there are at least half a dozen also-rans on form.
The Middleton features another strong line up of older fillies and mares. After her poor showing at the Guineas meeting, I cannot see grounds for supporting Crystal Zvedza. George Strawbridge’s filly Journey is closely matched with Beautiful Romance on Champions’ Day form but I feel that both of them probably would prefer more juice in the ground and further. The Gosden filly may try to make all and set the race up for last year’s Oaks third LADY OF DUBAI, now trained by in-form Roger Varian having been removed from improving Koora’s trainer Luca Cumani by the owner.
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