DONCASTER trainer Vicky Haigh is fast making a name for herself and her Rosabee should be among the leading fancies for tomorrow's Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket (3.15pm).
However, in Rainbow View she might just meet a future superstar and John Gosden’s filly rates the nap to follow up her facile success on debut.
Over course and distance, Rainbow View burst clear to win by six lengths first time out and she is 14-1
third favourite for next year’s 1,000 Guineas.
Beat Seven rates a big danger but Gosden admits Rainbow View looks “high class” and the trainer is a master with two-year-old fillies.
His Sense Of Joy had a similar profile when a winning nap of Goodwood’s Prestige Stakes last August and Rainbow View can follow suit. Hopefully we’ll get around the 2-1 mark.
With Kevin Manning’s horror ride on Lush Lashes still in the memory and plummeting my bank balance, the lottery of tomorrow’s Shergar Cup with unknown jockeys should be avoided like the plague.
Instead as the next best we’ll go with Ezdiyaad at Haydock who will run in either the Rose of Lancaster Stakes (2.35pm) or, more likely, the totescoop6 Heritage Handicap (3.10pm).
Improving Ezdiyaad was backed off the boards in the John Smith’s Cup and though he was third he looked the likely winner three out and it was still a cracking effort.
They also go at Redcar this weekend and with Tuesday my new ‘day off’, my Monday night is a toss up between Wetherspoons Monday Club or Thirsk races.
There’ll be no £1.70 a pint at Thirsk but Count Almaviva (8pm) and Mark Johnston’s number one, probably Annapolis (8pm), can make up the difference.
Have a great weekend.
SELECTION: Rainbow View, 3.15pm Newmarket, tomorrow.
Yorkshire Racing this week - tomorrow, Redcar, 1.50pm start; Sunday, Redcar, 2.10pm; Monday, Thirsk, 6pm; Wednesday, Beverley, 2.10pm (Ladies Day); Thursday, Beverley, 2.10pm.
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