GET SET FOR A MASTERCLASS
ONE of the best 5lb claimers in the game, Jason Watson, has been booked for Gifted Master in the Stewards’ Cup.
So it seems elementary that we should back him with a benevolent bookie paying each-way on the first five home in the big sprint at Goodwood.
GIFTED MASTER (3.40) made all to rout 14 rivals in a similar contest at Newmarket in May, when racing off a rating of 109, and is just two pounds higher.
Don’t miss SOLDIER IN ACTION (2.25) when he tries to repeat last year’s victory in the Qatar Summer Handicap.
Mark Johnston’s beast was rated 106 when he obliged last season, so ‘Braveheart’ has done a wonderful job in getting the horse down to a lowly perch of 97.
Silvestre de Sousa was in the plate in
2017, but in his subsequent 13 runs the horse has been ridden by a different jockey.
The champ is back in the irons today, so this looks the biggest plot since Guy Fawkes arrived at Parliament with a few bangers and some firelighters.
Frankie Dettori skips Goodwood for Newmarket, where
HIGHGARDEN
(2.05) can snare the Chalice Stakes.
Below par in a r a c e run at a crawl last time, the daughter of Nathaniel was sixth in the Group Two Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot and she has the scope to get better.
Her trainer John Gosden has won this contest twice in the last three years.
PASS THE GIN (2.40) gave favourite backers a tonic when bolting up by three-and-a-half lengths in a novice event at Chester last month.
The assessor may have made a mistake by allotting the two-year-old a mark of just 79 when she lines up for the EBF Fillies’
Nursery.