Global Excel can make it up to punters

● Walker settles on sprints for his gelding ● Without Parole can hint at Guineas form

Global Excel can atone for an odds-on reverse at Wolverhampton last month when he runs on a good card at Yarmouth.

Ed Walker’s inmate flickered promisingly in three starts last year and was heavily backed into 5-4 favouritism in a sixfurlong handicap at Dunstall Park. Global Excel could not deliver the goods – he finished third behind Wazin – but that performance was certainly not without merits.

The gelded son of Exceed And Excel was a little hamstrung by having to travel wide for much of the journey and galloped strongly towards the line once his chance had gone.

Walker seemingly now believes Global Excel is a sprinter – he was campaigned over a mile as a juvenile – and gets to prove the point in this six-furlong handicap.

He can do some damage off a mark of 69, while the first-time appointment of Gerald Mosse is hardly off-putting.

But most chatter at Yarmouth will revolve around Without Parole, who runs in division two of the one-mile novice stakes.

John Gosden’s colt made an explosive debut at Newcastle in December when he trounced a fair field by upwards of six lengths.

The son of Frankel was a little green, as one might have expected, but he looks a really lovely horse.

Without Parole is quoted around the 25-1 mark about winning the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket next month. Expect those odds to be significantly shorter if he does what is expected of him by the seaside.

Stormingin looks worth a play in a mile-and-a-quarter handicap at Brighton.

The Gary Moore-trained grey has hitherto had a rather nomadic career, but his new connections now have something to work with on the evidence of his last start for Don Cantillon.

Stormingin was only just denied by Golconda Prince in a mile-and-a-quarter apprentices’ handicap, in which he was well supported into 9-4 favouritism, at Doncaster.

It will be interesting to see how he gets on under the wise tutelage of Moore, who loves a winner at Brighton.

All eyes at Punchestown will be on Douvan as the eightyear-old attempts to show he retains plenty of spark in the Boylesports Champion Chase.

Willie Mullins’ star looked

0 Sir Michael Stoute. like running a big race when he came down at Cheltenham in his first race for a year.

As long as that has not left its mark, Douvan has to be the one to beat.

Mullins’ Getabird is hard to oppose in the Herald Champion Novice Hurdle after he put a disappointing display at Cheltenham behind him when getting back to winning ways at Fairyhouse.

Monalee only found the superb Presenting Percy too good in the RSA Chase at Cheltenham and can go one better in the Growise Champion Novice Chase.

Henry de Bromhead’s progressive seven-year-old should have no stamina worries as he looked like he stayed the extended three-mile trip that day.

Meanwhile, Veracious, who was due to be the 1,000 Guineas mount of Frankie Dettori, has been ruled out due to a “training setback”.

The Sir Michael Stoutetrained daughter of Frankel, who had been 6-1 for the Newmarket Classic on 6 May, was an impressive winner of a Newmarket maiden last October and impressed Dettori in a gallop before racing at last week’s Craven meeting.

In a statement, Stoute said: “Veracious will not be running in the 1000 Guineas because she has had a training setback.”

Chris Richardson, managing director of owners Cheveley Park Stud, confirmed Veracious is lame and expects her to undergo further tests in the coming days

He said: “I spoke to Sir Michael Stoute and I don’t know exactly what it is, but she is not 100 per cent right.

“She is lame in behind and I think they are going to do some more tests and examinations to try to establish what it is. Frankie Dettori was very happy with her gallop on Wednesday and it looked good. We are all very disappointed.”