MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

PUNTERS could be watching poetry in motion if

continues his improvement at Sandown this afternoon.

Trainer Tony Carroll is a dab hand at finding the key to his handicappers and this fella has been a case in point all season.

He’s still on a lower mark than his winter all-weather rating yet has been upwardly mobile with a series of fine efforts.

Poetic Force become one of our horses to follow when unlucky in running over nine furlongs at Goodwood last month.

The four-year-old was backed that day and Carroll isn’t the sort to do more than loan his cash to the bookies, so today’s return to Poetic Force’s optimum trip of a mile speaks volumes.

Sir Michael Stoute (above) is represented by both our other qualifiers

and