Timeform UK SmartPlays: Saturday September 27

We're saving our first bet for the day's big race, the Cambridgeshire (15:50). There's little conjecture over where the pace will be: it's almost all high and that's why Cornrow and Velox, the last ones standing from a culled ante-post market, stand firm near the top of the betting. We wouldn't contest the assertion that Cornrow is the likeliest winner, but with a significant difference between their prices combined with a pace scenario that will suit Velox best, an each-way bet on that one looks the more logical option. He's been improving all year while suggesting that a top-level, big-field handicap will allow him to do a little more. It's projected that just about everything will be in Velox's favour here, including the intermediate trip, so he really should be thereabouts.

As a winner of his first three starts who hasn't gone in again since, Secretinthepark (17:35) could be deemed a disappointment on the face of it. That would be slightly unfair. He's improved a little since his early three-year-old days and has run well on most starts this year. Last time at Leicester on his first combination with Richard Hughes (this will be his second), his head second to Take A Note represented a career-best effort. That third-placed Verse of Love has won since only lends further weight to that view. With conditions so similar here and a big field scenario likely to suit, Secretinthepark is bound to go well again.

The final race (18:05) contains a number of unexposed three-year-olds. Chief among them is Nabatean, who is improving more quickly than you'd think and is the type to keep on those lines for a while, too. He was second to Melrose Abbey on reappearance, won at Lingfield and caught the eye when last seen at Ascot in August. He shaped as well as any in that race with the exception of winner Battersea, who has since achieved smart form. His scope is expected to keep Nabatean improving over and above what he's evidently open to. The only slight chime of doubt is a break since. If Nabatean is fit, he'll take all the beating.

Timeform UK SmartPlays
All at Newmarket

Back Velox win and place in the 15:50
Back Secretinthepark in the 17:35
Back Nabatean in the 18:05