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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kylian Mbappe had a long time to imagine himself as a Real Madrid player. Indeed, the French forward was linked with a move to the Santiago Bernabeu for a number of years before the transfer finally ...

The week before El Clásico is so often overflowing with narrative. So often over recent years, Barcelona and Real Madrid, while previously seen as equals split by different values, have been getting ...

HIERARCHY has made the frame on his last four starts off reduced marks and must have excellent claims despite the quick two-day turnaround from his third at Bath. His main danger could turn out to be ...

If Arsenal miss out on the Premier League title once more this season, they might look back at Sunday’s defeat to Bournemouth as a moment that ultimately cost them. There’s still a long way to go in ...

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 ...

Hugo Viana is known to fans of English football and in particular, Newcastle United, as little more than a distant memory of a career never quite fulfilled in England. But he will return to the ...