LET’S GO STEADY! Bin Suroor ace Pace looks up for a Bun fight at Newmarket

STEADY PACE gets the vote to gain compensation for a Royal Ascot nearmiss in today’s bet365 Bunbury Cup (3.25) at Newmarket.

The Saeed bin Suroortrained four-year-old was having his first outing since Meydan in February when lining up for the Wokingham Handicap on the final day of the royal meeting.

And Josephine Gordon’s mount went agonisingly close to picking up the big betting handicap, crossing the line a diminishing halflength second to Out Do.

Steady Pace competes from the same rating here and, having scored over seven furlongs in the past, can take advantage of the extra yardage to go one better.

Elsewhere on the July Cup undercard, stands out in the bet365 Superlative Stakes (4.00).

The way Aidan O’brien’s colt brushed aside his rivals in a Curragh maiden second time out suggests he is well up to this rise in grade.

Champion jockey Jim Crowley and are the combination to look out for in the bet365 Mile Handicap (2.50) after not getting the rub of the green in the Britannia at Royal Ascot.

At York, looks sure to give a good account in the John Smith’s Cup Handicap (3.05).

After a course-and-distance score two starts ago, Mick Appleby’s improver was done no favours by the draw when out of the money at Haydock a week ago and shouldn’t be written off.

The John Smith’s Silver Cup (2.30) looks at the mercy of

while a beaten favourite in the Hunt Cup, gets another chance in the John Smith’s Racing Handicap (1.55).

At Ascot, it will be a shock if can’t repeat his 2016 triumph in the Group 2 Summer Mile (3.50).

The totescoop6 Heritage Handicap (2.10) is nothing like so cut and dried, but a high draw should favour

GOOD GORD Steady Pace and Josephine Gordon can go one better after finishing second at Royal Ascot last time