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Oaks Betting: Timeform rate Lush Lashes 6lb clear of rivals

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[210.0] Chinese White main rival on the book

The Betfair punters with big ante-post prices about Lush Lashes and Chinese White for the Oaks will be further heartened by the news that Timeform have the pair at the top of their Epsom ratings.

Lush Lashes has been backed as high as [100.0] on Betfair to win at Epsom and, now the [4.4] favourite on the exchange, Timeform have her a healthy 6llb clear of her Friday rivals.

The next best in their ratings is Chinese White. Her ante-post betting profile on Betfair is remarkably similar to that of New Approach in the Derby, as she also drifted to [210.0] after connections declared her an unlikely Epsom contender, following her impressive Gowran Park success last month.

Betfair spokesman Tony Calvin commented: "The ante-post betting patterns and running plans of Chinese White are eerily similar to New Approach but, unlike the Derby colt, she probably has improvement to find if she is to win the Oaks."

And Kieran Packman, Timeform's Communications Manager, explained: "Lush Lashes is top-rated having put up as good a performance as has been seen in the Musidora since Reams of Verse in 1997.

"Given she had also shaped with distinct promise when a running-on sixth in the 1,000 Guineas, she has all the hallmarks of an Oaks winner, particularly as, on pedigree, she should be at least as effective at a mile-and-a-half.

"Getaway heads our Coronation Cup pecking order, not surprisingly as we said after his Newmarket win that he looked potentially dominant in the middle-distance scene this season. He announced his coming of age in breathtaking style on that occasion and he should prove hard to beat on Friday."

Timeform Oaks Ratings

Adored 122p
Cape Amber 119p
Chinese White 123p
Clowance 119p
Ice Queen 103
Katiyra 122p
Look Here 111p
Lush Lashes 129p
Michita 121p
Miracle Seeker 112
Moonstone 115p
Sail 120p
Saphira's Fire 114p
Savethisdanceforme 122
Sugar Mint 114
Tiffany Diamond 118

Timeform Coronation Cup Ratings

Big Robert 119
Getaway 145p
Macarthur 132p
Mulitdimensional 129
Papal Bull 135§
Red Rocks 138
Soldier of Fortune 144
Song of Hiawatha 123
Youmzain 141
Anna Pavlova 131
Turbo Linn 134