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It’s surely only a matter of time before Alfraamsey, placed in all four starts to date, gets off the mark, but he may have to settle for another minor role here, as FORMOSINA looks sure to build on his promising debut effort at Newbury last month. The Footstepsinthesand colt, who holds an entry in the Group 3 Railway Stakes in Ireland later this month, was beaten 7¼l into third behind Strong Suit and Neebras at that Berkshire venue, but shaped very well indeed,…

NINTH HOUSE, representing the bang in-form Ruth Carr stable (25 per cent strike-rate during the past two weeks), came right back to form when a neck second of 13 to Shadowtime at Beverley recently, in turn finishing nicely clear of the rest, and looks poised to go one better off the same mark here. Arizona John and Stanley Goodspeed both arrive here on the back of creditable efforts and enter calculations, but Ninth House could have most to fear from Film Festival, who looks a …

A pretty tight affair this fillies’ handicap, but my two against the field are Anice Stellato and LADY ARTEMISIA, with the latter marginally preferred. The Montjeu filly was unraced as a two-year-old, but quickly made up into a decent middle-distance performer for Michael Bell in 2009, and was only beaten five lengths when fifth in a Group 3 race at Goodwood last summer. Her reappearance effort over C&D when beaten less than a length by Aphrodisia was highly promising, …

EXCELEBRATION was well backed ahead of his debut at Nottingham last month and, although beaten almost eight lengths into fourth behind the winner Planet Waves, it was a highly promising effort from Marco Botti’s charge, while the form has already been franked with the fifth home that day, Roayh, scoring at Leicester subsequently. The other duo with experience look pretty limited on the evidence available, while none of the newcomers jump out on paper, so it will be…