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Sunday can make it a great Saturday Tim Easterby looks to have got Sunday Sovereign back to his best. IT WILL be a case of blink and you’ll miss it when it comes to the World Pool Dash (3.45pm) on Saturday. The 20-strong field will take less than a minute to surge down the five-furlong straight at Epsom and as usual, this year’s renewal is a fiercely competitive affair. Stone Of Destiny should go well, but it’s often hard for hold-up horses in this race and I prefer the chances of another King Power Racing-owned contender in 

THE week before the Epsom Derby and Oaks, the racing is far from out of this world. Several of the fields in the big handicaps are smaller than expected, bar the one I am really interested in: a cracking six-furlong handicap at Haydock Park (1.45) with 16 set to go to post. The soft ground, although drying, makes this even more interesting with the likes of Bielsa (warm-up for the Wokingham), Golden Apollo, Cold Stare and TRUE MASON (nap) all particularly effective on this testing surface. But it is the latter who is the most appealing, having plummeted in the weights in the past few months.�...

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Duke Of York preview: Art Power faces strong opposition on return Tue 11 May 2021 Art Power ready to return to the fray in the Duke of York Clipper Logistics Stakes on the Knavesmire on Wednesday. The son of Dark Angel, owned by King Power Racing, enjoyed a successful three-year-old campaign that saw him develop into a serious contender for sprinting honours. After completing a hat-trick in convincing fashion in the Group Three Lacken Stakes at Naas in July, Art Power contested Group One company for his last three races. He had his baptism at the top level in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York, whe...

The Leader Newspaper By Andrew Atkinson Tim Easterby trained Showalong – tipped by fromthehorsesmouth.info – landed the Class 2 tote+At Tote.co.uk Handicap over 5 furlongs under jockey D. Allan at Chester on Wednesday. Three-year-old Showalong (2-1) gained a 3/4 length victory at the Roodee ahead of First Company, with Cuban Breeze 4 lengths behind, third. Youth Spirit trained by Andrew Balding won the Group Three Chester Vase Stakes under Tom Marquand and was slashed to 25-1, from 100-1, for the Cazoo Derby after a 1 3/4 victory ahead of Sandhurst. Favourite Wirko tra...