Global can Excel by sea

Time for flicker of promise to set Yarmouth sprint alight

Global Excel can atone for an oddson 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 six-furlong handicap at Dunstall Park.

Global Excel could not deliver the goods – he finished third – but that performance was not without merits.

The gelded son of Exceed And Excel was 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.

Most chatter at Yarmouth will revolve around Without Parole, who runs in division two of the onemile 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.

Without Parole is quoted around the 25-1 mark for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket next month.

Expect those odds to be significantly shorter if he does what is expected of him by the seaside. l James Cook can stake his Investec Derby claim with victory in the Investec Blue Riband Trial at Epsom tomorrow. Aidan O’Brien has his usual embarrassment of riches in the Classic division and while this Galileo colt is not yet considered part of the A-team judged on the ante-post markets, a win at the Surrey track would certainly see his price shorten.