Life at Pontefract should be sweet for Caster Sugar as she is the pick in the Best Horse Racing Sky Channel 432 Fillies' Nursery. Luca Cumani's youngster bumped into a potentially smart one of Sir Michael Stoute's last time out at Folkestone but this looks an easier task.
Caster Sugar had no answer to Group One-entered My Superstar, who ran out a four-and-a-half-length winner, but stayed on takingly having not had the clearest of runs in coming from the back Bred to stay, this stiff mile should suit and it will be disappointing if she is beaten with Cumani's horses going well.
Stoute himself can strike with Ascot Lime in the Dalby Screw-Driver Handicap. The three-year-old has improved with racing and lost nothing in defeat when a beaten favourite at Kempton last time out.
He looked like winning at one stage but was caught in the closing stages by a useful sort of Marcus Tregoning's in Ajhar, who actually broke the track record in beating him. The drop back a furlong trip at a course like this looks in his favour.
On The Feather should give a good account in the Nayland Nursery at Great Leighs. Peter Winkworth's filly went down by just a neck in a similar event at Lingfield, suggesting she is capable of picking up a small race somewhere along the line.
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