TASLEET COULD BE TEMPTING

Tasleet could be the value call in the 32Red Sprint Cup at Haydock tomorrow.

The Clive Cox-trained Harry Angel was a dominant winner of the six-furlong Group One last season and if he can bounce back to his brilliant best on his return to Merseyside, the rest are likely playing for places.

However, he has not been seen in competitive action since suffering injury in the stalls at Royal Ascot and taking such short odds on his comeback does not make much appeal.

Tasleet was a fourlength second 12 months ago and also filled the runner-up spot in the Diamond Jubilee and the Qipco British Champions Sprint at Ascot last season to prove himself a top-level sprinter.

He, too, has an absence to overcome, having been off the track since finishing third behind subsequent Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy at the Curragh in May.

But trainer William Haggas sounds positive about his condition and while some of his rivals have been in action regularly this summer, he at least arrives fresh.

Tasleet must have every chance of at least hitting the frame and odds of around 8-1 look more than fair.

Regal Reality gets the nod in the Group Three Unibet Mile.

A son of Intello out of the high-class racemare Regal Realm, Sir Michael Stoute’s charge won his only juvenile start at Yarmouth before finishing down the field behind Without Parole on his Sandown comeback in May.

In classic Stoute style, the master of Freemason Lodge gave his colt all the time he needed and it proved the right call as he returned with a most impressive victory in the Thoroughbred Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

His entry in the QEII at Ascot is perhaps indicative of the regard in which he is held and if he is to run on Champions Day with a realistic chance next month, he really needs to be winning a race of this nature.

The long awaited return of Enable should see plenty of extra race goers flocking to Kempton.