Earl Of Tyrone ready to strike it rich in Sky Bet Ebor at York

Earl Of Tyrone has the right profile to land Europe's richest handicap, the Sky Bet Ebor at York. mile-and-three-quarter event is always an ultradifficult race for punters, yet Paddy Twomey's Irish raider ticks plenty of boxes and looks thrown in at the weights on recent form.

The son of Australia has rattled up three successive victories on good ground, including a big-field handicap at the Curragh over a similar trip.

The form of his most recent run, when scoring over an extended mile and a half with some ease in a Listed race at Limerick, has been subsequently franked by runner-up Raise You, who won a Group Three prize next time. Three of the last four winners have carried 9st 5lb or more to victory - the same weight Billy Lee's mount shoulders - and is technically 2lb well in from that perch given his revised rating of 105.

Sacred can earn compensation for a lacklustre effort at Goodwood and keep the ball rolling for the William Haggas yard in the Group Two Sky Bet City Of York Stakes.

Though she takes on the Lennox one-two in Sandrine and Kinross again in the seventhe furlong contest, she suffered from racing wide on the Sussex Downs and was only beaten a length and three-quarters.

She made a belated return to action at Royal Ascot, having signed off last term with victory in the Hungerford at Newbury, and the Cheveley Parkowned daughter of Exceed And Excel looks the one to be on now she is fighting fit.

Mighty Ulysses gets the nod in the opening Sky Bet And Symphony Group Strensall Stakes. The Gosdens' runner followed up a smashing effort in defeat in the St James's Palace with an easy success in the Listed Sir Henry Cecil at Newmarket.

Savvy Knight looks a big price in an ultra-competitive Sky Bet Melrose Handicap, if reproducing the form of his closeup fourth in the King George V Stakes at the Royal meeting. He was last of three when beaten at odds-on at Sandown subsequently and while he has a few questions to answer, his trainer Sean woods has always thought a lot of him.