Dave Ord's Nap went in at Cheltenham and now Ian Ogg has the Sunday best bets.
He arrives here at the top of his game and ZU RUN is fancied to make a bold bid despite an ordinary draw.
He’s struck up a good partnership with Millie Wonnacott at this track the last twice, winning over seven furlongs and then touched off by Evocative over this trip last time. Willlolarupi will be popular after his Southwell success earlier this month but was helped by a very strong gallop that day and the selection might just be more tactically versatile.
MANOTHEPOPLE provided Paddy Brennan with a winning send-off at Cheltenham in April and shaped well enough on his return at Chepstow (Ballygriffincottage behind, Nassalam pulled up) to believe he can still be competitive from his career high mark. The form of the spring success on the new course looks solid enough and proved he can act at this track while the prevailing good ground is essential to him. He's relatively lightly raced for his age with 10 chase starts to his name and fewer still under suitable conditions beyond three miles which can see help him post a career best.
Some useful horses have won the Salmon Spray with Baron Alco, Lisp and Song For Someone all obliging as four-year-olds but the race has been downgraded by 15lbs to a 0-120 and there doesn't appear to be anything of their calibre in the line-up, several of whom come into the race off the back of heavy defeats. Goodwin's came over fences and he may fare better returned to hurdling but KADO DE JOIE took the eye with the way he travelled on several occasions last season. The end results were not all that but he does shape as though capable of better and it would be no surprise to see him progress through the season for his powerful stable.
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