ENDLESS TIME UP FOR CUP

Endless Time can enrich Charlie Appleby’s profitable run of form by winning the Betway Yorkshire Cup tomorrow.

The Godolphin trainer has had a whale of a time of late, with the Group One victory of Sobetsu in France on Sunday the highlight of a successful spring.

Appleby now has a good chance of claiming the feature race on the final day of the Dante fixture at York.

Endless Time was marked down as an aboveaverage animal as a threeyear-old when she won four races from five starts.

She continued the good work last season with success in the Lancashire Oaks upon her return to the fray in July.

And though she then disappointed in the Yorkshire Oaks, secondplaced finishes in the Prix Vermeille and the Prix Royal-Oak were really sound efforts.

That last run at Saint Cloud in October was especially noteworthy as the five-year-old daughter of Sea The Stars revelled on her first start over a staying distance.

She was only beaten a length and three-quarters by the classy Vazirabad, who has since won the Dubai Gold Cup at Meydan.

With stamina seemingly assured and possible fears of a long layoff allayed by the fact she won the Lancashire Oaks on her comeback, Endless Time looks set fair for a big run.

But perhaps the crucial point to her chances on the Knavesmire is a fondness for soft ground, which seems a likely scenario if the forecast is anything like on the money.

It could be a slog, and if that is the case Endless Time can prosper.

On Her Toes ought to have a smashing chance in the one-mile Longines Irish Champions Weekend Fillies’ Stakes.

A similar argument can be made for Roger Varian’s four-year-old grey Gibbs Hill in the Betway Jorvik Handicap.

He was a pleasing scorer in a Sandown quagmire last July and could not arrive at York in better form, having glided to victory on his first start over a mile and a half at Wolverhampton in April.

Declan Carroll thinks quite a bit of Saigon City, who has the tools to win the staying handicap at Newmarket.