Some very small fields across the meetings today with Royal Ascot two days away; but why can these trainers with lesser lights in their yards not find something to run when they have been complaining about lack of opportunity in the rescheduled fixture list?
Mark Johnston does not normally mess around when it comes to sending runners to Goodwood and MRS BOUQUET, the only three year old in the race, looks a worthy favourite for the Cathedral Stakes at 2:20. Winner of four of her six starts as a juvenile, Joe Fanning will probably be out the gate and gone with the elders getting a rear-end view as none of them appears to have consistent form at this level so the three year old should improve past them.
That old saying about topweights in three year old handicaps points to Johnston’s Tulip Fields in the 12:35. It has never been out of the first three in five starts but never been in the first one and makes its handicap debut. Is it thrown in?