Follow Paris to Nottingham

Trip to Paris should be fit enough after Gold Cup outing in Dubai

TRIP TO PARIS can finally regain the winning thread as he drops to Listed company at Nottingham.

Ed Dunlop’s likeable stayer is an Ascot Gold Cup winner, but he has not found the scoresheet since that afternoon in June 2015.

It barely goes without saying that Trip To Paris is the highest-rated horse in this field, with Ryan Moore’s appointment hardly off-putting.

He should also be fit enough, too, after having finished well down the field in the Dubai Gold Cup three weeks ago when the rain in Dubai did him no favours whatsoever.

KYLLANG ROCK has been off the track for more than 200 days, but he might still be good enough to win the five-furlong conditions stakes.

The three-year-old colt probably falls short of Pattern class but he still had quite a profitable juvenile campaign, with a good victory at Catterick backed up by another good show at Haydock.

That last run on Merseyside was especially pleasing as he did really well to get to within a neck of Merry Banter, to whom he was giving 10lb.

Catterick’s meeting looks hard, yet BOLD SPIRIT might give us a good run for our money in division one of the six-furlong handicap.

The six-year-old showed a nice level of consistency towards the end of last season and was also a two-time courseand-distance winner last summer. SELECTIONS: CATTERICK: 2.00 Wishing Time, 2.30 Jan Smuts, 3.00 Tadaawol, 3.30 Victoire De Lyphar, 4.00 Busy Street, 4.30 Bold Spirit, 5.00 Windforpower, 5.30 See Vermont.

NOTTINGHAM: 1.50 Al Galayel, 2.20 Blitz, 2.50 Kyllang Rock, 3.20 TRIP TO PARIS (NAP), 3.50 Ice Slice, 4.20 Transmitting, 4.50 Hertford Dancer, 5.20 Bedouin.

DOUBLE: Trip To Paris and Bold Spirit.