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13:50 Newmarket (July)

Good To Firm

Oddschecker Handicap (Heritage Handicap) (GBBPlus Race)

First Prize: £51540
1m 2f 0y
Class 2
6 runners

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Runners: 6 runners

Type: Flat Turf

Surface: Turf

Weather: Partly cloudy

1 (3)

Evanesco 20 days

J: David Egan

T: Charlie Johnston

Form: 17-417 D

OR: 100

W: 9st 9lb

Age: 3 yo Colt

Form

Improved form in 1m2f handicaps at the other Newmarket course on his first two starts this term, bossing a five-runner race (good to firm) impressively on second occasion; doing the same off this 8lb higher mark in 16-runner race at Royal Ascot (1m2f, good to firm; 12-1) wasn't possible but he led entering straight until over 1f out and wasn't at all discredited in seventh (Princling fifth); could get run of the race this time and is one to consider.

2 (2)

1 tip

Laureate Crown 22 days

J: Oisin Murphy

T: Hugo Palmer

Form: 56-110

OR: 98

W: 9st 7lb

Age: 3 yo Colt

Form

This step up in trip is not sure to suit but he arrived late on the scene to win handicaps at Wolverhampton (8.6f, AW) and Sandown (1m, good) on his first two outings this year and came from last in the Britannia at Royal Ascot (1m, good to firm) three weeks ago, finishing 12th of 30 overall but second of those who had raced far side; probably remains in form.

3 (1)

1 tip

Archers Bay 38 days

J: Marco Ghiani

T: Marco Botti

Form: 31-139 D

OR: 93

W: 9st 2lb

Age: 3 yo Colt

Form

Improved form over 1m2f at the other Newmarket track on his first two starts this season, winning a handicap (on good) and third of five in a Listed race (good to firm); the Derby Italiano on heavy ground last time did not work out but he returns to a handicap on what looks a pretty good mark.

4 (5)

Decade Of Time 29 days

J: George Bass

T: Jack Channon

Form: 311

OR: 92

W: 9st 1lb

Age: 3 yo Colt

Form

Shaped well at Newbury on debut before winning an 11-runner novice at Windsor (1m, good to firm; cosily) in May and a three-runner novice at Nottingham (1m, soft) in June; Windsor runner-up Heraldry now has a big pull in the weights but this one is lightly raced and promising, and he shapes as if 1m2f can help on this handicap debut.

5 (4)

Princling 20 days

J: Tom Marquand

T: William Haggas

Form: 22-145

OR: 91

W: 9st 0lb

Age: 3 yo Colt

Form

Sole win was at 1-4 in a novice race but competitive every time, in valuable handicaps over 1m and 1m2f on last two outings (good to firm); latest was at Royal Ascot (10-1) where he had the widest draw and mostly raced widest but kept on in fifth of 16 (Evanesco nearly 2l behind in seventh); that did not look the ideal run of the race and he's probably set for better still.

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6 (6)

1 tip

Heraldry 67 days

J: William Buick

T: John & Thady Gosden

Form: 5-12

OR: 89

W: 8st 12lb

Age: 3 yo Colt

Form

Got up close home in a maiden at Kempton (1m, AW) in April on reappearance; a gap opened at the right time that day but it didn't in a novice at Windsor (1m, good to firm) in May and Decade Of Time got first run before this one found room from just inside the final 1f; left the impression of unfinished business that day and now has a 10lb pull with his admittedly promising rival; failed to get into 1m2f Royal Ascot handicap as a reserve; dam was 11.6f Lingfield Oaks Trial winner; major interest.

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Betting Forecast

13/2 Evanesco, 11/2 Laureate Crown, 8/1 Archers Bay, 11/2 Decade Of Time, 2/1 Princling, 3/1 Heraldry

Verdict

It’s a fascinating field. The small number of runners may well give Evanesco (second choice) the chance to have it all his own way in front, as he did on his penultimate start but certainly didn’t at Royal Ascot. In fact it can be argued strongly for all three of those who appeared at the Royal meeting that the run of the race there failed to see them to best effect, and Princling finished two places ahead of Evanesco. Upped in trip, there are also eye-catching handicap newcomers in Decade Of Time, who is clearly a rising force, and HERALDRY, who finished snapping at his heels when the two of them clashed in a Windsor novice in early May. Heraldry is unraced since, whereas Decade Of Time has won again, and one upshot is a big swing in the weights which may well hand the Gosden-trained colt the initiative.[Richard Austen]

Selections

SPOTLIGHT:

Heraldry

POSTDATA:

Laureate Crown

TOPSPEED:

Archers Bay