The Citizen (KZN)

Advertise ready to showcase his talents in the July Stakes at Newmarket

- London

– Advertise can promote the form of the recent Royal Ascot meeting by winning the July Stakes at Newmarket today.

Martyn Meade’s exciting youngster found only Calyx a length too good in the Coventry Stakes and that horse is bound for the Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville next time out.

While a crack at the top level surely awaits Advertise, Meade wants to give the son of Showcasing more experience first.

Advertise had gone to the Royal meeting on the back of a debut victory at Newbury. He showed great promise that day, but he was still a touch green at Ascot, where he was on the opposite side of the course to the winner.

He still had 21 horses behind him and will have learnt a lot from that. A Group 2 success beckons before he possibly goes on to better things.

The other Group 2 on the card, the Princess of Wales’s Arqana Stakes, can fall to Best Solution.

The Saeed bin Suroor-trained four-year-old is a dual Group 3 winner and was fifth to Godolphin counterpar­t Hawkbill in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic on his latest start.

He has not raced since then, but he has been successful following a break in the past and can collect what does not look a particular­ly high-quality renewal.

The step up to 2600m for the Bahrain Trophy should bring out improvemen­t in Wells Farhh Go.

Connection­s of the Tim Easterby-trained colt still nurture hopes of going for the St Leger and victory will keep the dream alive for a horse who ran better than his placing suggests at Royal Ascot.

Encrypted can follow up his York victory of last month in the bet365 Handicap.

Hugo Palmer’s charge was a 25-1 shot on that occasion, but it looked no fluke in what was a hot contest.

Supernova looked a promising type when getting off the mark in a Goodwood maiden after 211 days off the track.

David Simcock’s three-year-old can keep up the good work in the Birthday Handicap at Doncaster.

War Whisper produced a good performanc­e to register a long-overdue success at Pontefract last time out and the five-year-old can double up in a handicap at Carlisle for sprint specialist Paul Midgley.– Press Associatio­n

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