Timeform Daily: Friday April 17, Newbury, 3.15

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Timeform run the rule over the field for the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup Conditions Stakes (3).

Father Time and Your Old Pal went into many notebooks following their eye-catching debut victories, and the former seeks to give Henry Cecil his third win on the bounce in this race. However, the pair face an equally promising rival in Four Winds, who acquitted himself well in Group company when last seen. The others have to improve, but that is not entirely out of the question.

Akhenaten ran well twice in pattern company last year and showed he had trained on when winning at Wolverhampton last month. He had excuses last time but is up against some potentially smart rivals here.

Aurorian acquitted himself well in better company after getting off the mark in maiden company at Lingfield in September but a lot more is required to get competitive here.

Father Time has a top-class pedigree. He stamped himself as a horse with a bright future when emphatically putting away two subsequent winners at Great Leighs on his debut and he should relish this step up to a mile-and-a-quarter.

Four Winds ran out a comfortable winner of a Sandown maiden prior to finishing a good third in a Group 3 contest at Ascot (held in at a vital stage). He is the type to make a better three-year-old and this longer trip expected to suit.

Palavicini built on earlier promise when landing a competitive one-mile soft-ground maiden over this course in October. He is a promising type who can be expected to show further improvement over this longer trip.

Your Old Pal was a highly impressive winner of a one-mile heavy-ground maiden here in October, striding clear unextended. He is potentially smart and looks sure to be involved if coping with the likely firmer surface.

High Heeled got off the mark in a one-mile AW fillies maiden at Kempton and far from disgraced in a valuable sales race when last seen in September. Likely to stay this far, but others hold far stronger claims.