Ryan Moore has a good book of six rides on Saturday afternoon and has a big chance of winning the Group 3 Solario Stakes aboard debut winner Starlore...
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Potapova has leading chance at her best
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Starlore has good chance of building on debut win
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Swift Asset has every chance in Sandown finale
Obviously, she had her issues first time up at Goodwood but she has run well in defeat on her last two starts, latterly in Group 2 company at Royal Ascot. Those performances wouldn't be on the same level as her excellent defeat of Grande Dame in this race last season, but they weren't that far off, and she has a leading chance in this at her best, especially if we get decent ground, which she enjoys.
He doesn't look to have run badly off a break in first-time blinkers at York last week and he ran well after an even shorter turnaround than this at Kempton earlier in the season. He certainly has his chance off 91, though this looks a pretty deep handicap.
I think he probably shaped a lot better than a nose win would suggest here on his debut, but the fact he was able to win at all was hugely promising. And the form has largely worked out very well. A couple have come out and been beaten but the third, Arabian Crown, has won twice since and the fifth, Devil's Point, has also scored subsequently and he actually takes his chance here, too.
You'd hope and expect that our colt has improved for the experience too, and we are looking forward to seeing how he matches up in this higher grade. I don't think he will be disgraced, let's put it like that, especially with the race cutting up a fair bit from the five-day stage.
I rode her on her debut at Goodwood and this well-related Lope De Vega filly obviously shaped very well there, warming to her task well in the closing stages to finish second to the experienced form horse Ornellaia, who has since gone on to be second in a Group 2 at Deauville.
If she can build on that debut run, then she has a clear winning chance here, though Beautiful Love also shaped nicely on her debut at Newmarket and we have some very well-bred newcomers in here as well, not least Inherit, who goes well.
He obviously ran poorly last time, but you can probably forgive him for underperforming in the heavy ground at Haydock, and a mark of 78 looks fair enough on his previous win on soft at that track. His pedigree suggests he should be going well off this mark, but he has a question to answer after that run last time and the expected quicker ground is largely an unknown, for all he ran on it on his debut.
All his best form has come on good or quicker ground, so the less rain the better for him from now onwards and he obviously comes here in fair nick. He has also been rated a fair bit higher in the past despite edging up the handicap for his good recent form, so he has every chance in this sprint handicap.
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