Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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Ed can prove master with his electric Car
CARADOC can give Ed Walker a Derby day victory — whatever English King’s fate in the big one — by landing the Investec Handicap (3.00) at Epsom.
The five-year-old has been limited to 10 career starts but seven of those came in 2019 – a campaign that yielded three of Caradoc’s four lifetime wins.
Successful in a handicap at Newmarket in June, the son of Camelot was back in the winner’s enclosure after similar events at Windsor in August and Newbury in September.
Oisin Murphy’s (above) mount, below par in Listed company on Lingfield’s Polytrack in November, is 5lb higher than for his latest triumph.
But there should be further progress to come back on turf and
Caradoc rates the value against favourite Desert Icon as he seeks another big prize.
The Group 3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes (4.15) looks a suitable target for the exciting and unbeaten
Having made the perfect start to her career with a neck margin at Newcastle in October, the Roger Varian-trained daughter of Dubawi returned for a sevenlength victory at Chelmsford a week after racing’s coronavirus restart. Fooraat is bred to be useful, as she is a sister to Saeed bin Suroor’s redoubtable Benbatl, and her two performances so far have hardly scratched beneath the surface.
A drop in class is taken to do the trick for in the Listed Investec Surrey Stakes (2.25).
Andrew Balding gave the grey his return to action in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal
Ascot, and Shine So Bright came home last of the 10 runners behind Hello Youmzain.
But Silvestre de Sousa’s mount is a Group 2 winner, having beaten Laurens for the
City Of York Stakes on the Knavesmire last August, and gets the vote to bounce back.
Charlie
Appleby saw
Pinatubo lift the Investec
Woodcote EBF
Stakes (1.50) 12 months ago, and has another viable candidate in