Mikel Arteta sees full backs in a different way to most managers. While most players in this position are charged with getting up and down the wing, possibly putting in a cross and making a tackle ...

TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG is a course winner and shaped well on his only previous start on soft ground, so he is likely to be in the firing line, as should TURN AND BURN, who is only 2lb higher than when ...

An interesting opener with a couple of newcomers to note. EL MATADOR is related to several winners, and his trainer often does very well with two-year-olds, so he’s appealing on paper. OPPORTUNITY was ...

Only Erling Haaland, Bryan Mbeumo, Chris Wood and Cole Palmer have scored more goals in the Premier League this season than Danny Welbeck. The 33-year-old has found the back of the net six times in ...

Manchester United simply couldn’t take any more. Sunday’s defeat to West Ham dropped Erik ten Hag’s team down to 14th place in the Premier League table and proved to be the final straw for the ...

Three-time C&D winner ACES WILD has been competing in stronger races at this course this year and should go well. Meanwhile, fellow C&D winner LET’S GO HUGO has been performing very well of late and ...

PROSPERITAS has shaped promisingly in all four starts to date and should go well having finished fifth in a hotter race at York last time out. Of the other runners, I’ll cover with EMPORESS, who is ...

FELIX SUMMUS shaped well when runner-up on debut before returning from over a two-year absence to finish midfield at Downpatrick. He is interesting on hurdle debut, while fellow debutant in this ...

The last time HERITIER ran over hurdles, he finished a close-up third off a 5lb higher mark and has undergone wind surgery since making the frame in four of his last five starts. If ready to go after ...

WESTERNINTHEPARK has won four of his seven starts to date and was last seen exceeding market expectations when fifth of 17 in a Grade 3 Sandown handicap in March. He appears to have been let in here ...

BEAU QUALI shaped promisingly when second on his sole start for David Cottin and must be of interest on stable debut for the Skelton’s. Paul Nicholls’ Farland is the one to beat, but I feel as though ...