HENRY CECIL has prospects of a treble at Yarmouth today as he bids to claw back some of Saeed bin Suroor's lead in the trainers' championship.
Florid looks the best bet on the card in the Corton Conditions. Stakes following a good third, beaten two and a half lengths behind stable companion Bright Water, in a conditions event at Newmarket.
The five-year-old entire was always in touch and kept on well in the closing stages. This was the horse's first outing since running well to finish under a length behind Midnight Legend in a listed race at Leicester in June.
Bound to have come on for his latest start, Florid looks the one to be on this £7,650-added contest.
Two well bred two-year-olds can complete the treble in the shape of Darnaway, in the EBF Herringfleet Maiden and Seattle Art in the Ranworth Maiden.
Darnaway, by Green Desert, is a full-brother to the smart Ardkinglass, successful in the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot, and is taken to start a promising career here.
By the brilliant Seattle Slew Seattle Art can also make a winning debut 35 minutes later and round off a good day for the Warren Place yard.
Blaze Away, a useful stayer on the Flat, will have ground conditions to his liking at Cheltenham. Well suited by fast going, Ian Balding's charge, fit from a recent outing on the level, can start his winter campaign off in style with victory in the Tim Emanuel Handicap Hurdle, over two miles and five furlongs.
The son of Polish Navy showed useful form over hurdles last season, never more so than at Ascot in April, when he quickened well to win impressively by seven lengths from Miroswaki, over two and a half miles.
A repeat of this effort would be good enough for Blaze Away to lift this prize.
Fontwell stages the Strebel Boilers and Radiators Handicap Hurdle Series Final, the day's richest race with £10,000-added. Nick Gaselee's Victor Bravo looks ready made for this extended two mile six furlong event.
When successful by six lengths from Sophie May, over this course and distance earlier this month, the nine-year-old was giving his trainer his first winner for nearly five months.
Victor Bravo, in good form, can follow up and provide Gaselee with another boost.
The York Race Committee announced that Juddmonte Farms has a greed to extend its sponsorship of the Group One International Stakes at York until the end of the century.