CHEPSTOW: 1.35 Beau Quali, 2.10 Kap Boy, 2.45 Regatta De Blanc, 3.15 Ryan’s Rocket, 3.50 Good Boy Bobby, 4.25 Destroytheevidence, 5.00 Onemorefortheroad, 5.30 Belgarum.
DOWNPATRICK: 2.15 Whispering Hopes, 2.50 Hey Sunshine, 3.20 Three Platoon, 3.55 Prends Garde A Toi, 4.30 Fassbender, 5.05 Boomslang, 5.35 Greenway Machine.
DUNDALK: 5.25 Made U Blush, 6.00 I Am Me, 6.30 Punk Poet, 7.00 Shigar, 7.30 Church Mountain, 8.00 Polemon, 8.30 Natural Ruler.
KEMPTON: 4.03 Pickled Pepper, 4.38 Gentle Touch, 5.15 Jettie’s Run, 5.45 Blacklion, 6.15 Suhub, 6.45 French Master, 7.15 Throubi, 7.45 Midnight’s Dream, 8.15 Open Secret.
NEWMARKET: 1.07 Luna Girl, 1.47 Kullazain, 2.25 Cathedral, 3.00 Royal Scotsman, 3.35 DREAMY (NAP), 4.10 Mount Atlas, 4.45 Higher Leaves.
YORK: 1.30 Padishakh, 2.05 Stratusnine, 2.40 The Reverend, 3.10 Managing Director, 3.45 Enchanting, 4.20 Belgrave, 4.55 Danzan.
DOUBLE: Dreamy and Kullazain
Dreamy is taken to maintain her unbeaten record and in the process end Desert Flower’s perfect run in the bet365 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket.
Trained by Aidan O’Brien, Dreamy made her debut at the Glorious Goodwood meeting and despite looking like it was very much her first day at school, she managed to get up late and win.
That form has not worked out, but the experience was clearly not lost on Dreamy as she looked a totally different proposition when winning a Group Three at the Curragh 30 days later.
Never far from the pace, when she engaged top gear a furlong out the race was over and she coasted to victory by a length and a half.
Again, it is hard to go overboard about the form of that win, but it was the manner of the success that struck.
Given she is by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and out of a Yorkshire Oaks winner in Tapestry, stamina is likely to be her forte next season but she can head into the winter as a Group One winner.
Kullazain created quite an impression when stepping up markedly on his Ripon debut to win at Sandown.
He now takes a leap in class for the Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes but he may be up to it.
He handled give in the ground at Sandown, so he certainly will not be inconvenienced by the rain earlier in the week and rates an interesting proposition.
Some of the rivals he faces here were precocious, early types such as The Striking Viking and Treasure Isle, but the hope is Kullazain is still improving.
When a filly costs €800,000, the hope is that she will win on her debut and that is just what Cathedral did at Lingfield.
Her trainer Ralph Beckett has carried all before him with his juveniles this season and fresh from Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe glory, confidence in the yard could not be higher.
He will have had a whole host of youngsters to run in the Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes, but the fact he has pinned his colours to Cathedral’s mast is noteworthy.
She learned on the job on debut but when the penny finally dropped, she ran out an impressive winner.
Royal Scotsman had an injury which ruled him out of the summer, but it also means he arrives for the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards Challenge Stakes a fresh horse.
Third in the Guineas last year, he continued to be asked big questions before another injury kept him off the track after Royal Ascot.
Well beaten in the Lockinge on his return, he looked a class above his rivals when winning the Diomed Stakes at the Derby meeting and we still do not know quite how good he is.
Mount Atlas is just the type of horse with which Andrew Balding excels and he looks the best option in a wide open bet365 Old Rowley Cup.
The British EBF £100,000 Final at York can go the way of Hugo Palmer’s Stratusnine.
He beat a horse now rated 97 when last seen in July and has been kept back for this big pot.
There is also £100,000 up for grabs in the William Hill Finale Handicap where William Haggas’ The Reverend is a confident selection, despite a 9lb rise for his Ascot win.
Jump racing kicks up a gear with Chepstow’s two-day meeting traditionally being seen as the start of the new season.
At this early stage it is more about sticking with horses from yards already among the winners, and Fergal O’Brien is one of those.
His Ryan’s Rocket looked promising last season and the Unibet Persian War Novices’ Hurdle will have been his aim for some time.
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