IS

THE Ayr Cup one of the toughest races of all to pick a winner?

That’s a rhetorical question by the way, I don’t think I need to tell you the first rule of the rhetorical Question Club, do I?

Forgetting last year’s renewal, when the race was run at Haydock due to a waterlogged Ayr, it’s not a race where short-priced favourites prosper.

Don’t Touch bagged the honours as 6-1 jolly in 2015, but that was the only time in the last 20 runnings when the winner didn’t have a favourites tag attached to its name/mane.

On that basis I really can’t bring myself to put my hard-earned money on the red hot 5-1 jolly, Son Of Rest. The Irish raider will doubtless appreciate the heavy ground but it’s a tough ask to follow a career-best performance with another, just one week later.

Son Of Rest was just touched off in the Group One Flying Five at The