Ladies’ Day at the Ebor meeting so the Yorkshire burds will be in their finest £20 Primark haute couture; and they will probably get rained on as well as soaked.
In the opening Lowther Stakes, the Prosecco fund should be boosted by Queen Mary winner
Dramatised, stepping up to six furlongs but burdened with a penalty for her win at the Royal meeting. Last year’s favourite had a similar profile and failed to give away the penalty so she is no banker.
After yesterday’s disaster with the smallest handicap field (Soapy Stevens travelling like the winner three out, finished stone last as 4/1 favourite), I think I will bypass the Clipper Logistics (watch
Orbaan defy his double penalty).
Ordinarily one would expect the Oaks winner to be favourite for the Yorkshire Oaks but
Tuesday did not take the conventional route, raced against the boys in the Irish Derby and ran no sort of race at all. The Oaks form does not look great with third home Nashwa having done her subsequent winning over two furlongs shorter. Of the three year olds, Irish Oaks winner
Magical Lagoon capitalised on the absence of the Epsom runner-up in a messy race and is no forlorn hope here with some expected progression. Obviously, Andre Fabre’s raider
Raclette has to be considered a danger as the daughter of Frankel is not here just for the Yorkshire air but her Prix de Malleret victory in a three-way photo just does not look good enough and she might pick up some place black type.
Lilac Road won the Middleton and the step up in trip should not be a problem but she appears to be running the same race all the time as her close form ties with Aristia and Dreamloper would suggest. Pretty Polly winner
La Petite Coco is on a four race winning streak, however, all those races have been on easy ground (including beating Love at the end of 2021); and a line through The Curragh third Thunder Kiss gives her something to find with
Lilac Road over the extra quarter mile. It is hard to find fault with Sir Mark Prescott’s
ALPINISTA. Kirsten Rausing’s Frankel mare has run up a sequence across Europe, last time winning the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud against the boys, including disappointing Hurricane Lane. She chased home Love in this two years ago but will face nothing of that calibre today and looks a worthy favourite.
The Sir Henry Cecil Galtres Stakes looks like a fascinating race but it looks almost impossible from a betting angle. The front four in the betting are all lightly raced, well bred individuals from leading yards. It looks like
Golden Lyra will start favourite on the back of an easy win on the Kempton kitty litter last time in only her third race. Golden Horn filly
Haskoy comes here on the back of winning a similar race at Wolverhampton in similar fashion on her only start.
Mimikyu won a four runner handicap at HQ as she pleased and now steps into Listed company but her shrewd trainer would not be tilting at windmills; and in her previous race at Haydock on soft ground she beat Frankel filly
Time Lock, who re-opposes on 6lb better terms, having previously won easily on quick ground at HQ. So what I really need is a four-sided coin to toss...
