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Yahoo Sport UK horse racing Lucky 15 – Saturday’s top selections
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After a FIFTH consecutive winning NAP on Friday, take a look at our Lucky 15 selections (four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a four-fold) for the British meetings on Saturday, October 22, 2016.
YUKATAN (Doncaster 3.50) can land a less-than-vintage renewal of the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy for Aidan O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore. This mile juvenile contest is often a pointer to the following season’s Classics and favourites have a good record, with seven of the last nine ‘jollies’ obliging. O’Brien has plundered this race three times in the last seven years and seven times in the last 17 years. Five winners of the last British Group 1 of the Flat season have gone on to win the Derby, the first was Reference Point in 1986-87 and the most recent being the O’Brien-trained Camelot 2011-12. Yucatan, who faces nine rivals, has won one of his three starts over a mile, beating stablemate Taj Mahal at the Curragh in August. This son of Derby winner Galileo, and the top-class Six Perfections, he was subsequently beaten by another stablemate Capri in a Group 2 contest in heavy ground at the Curragh which three of the first four home were trained at Ballydoyle. Yucatan is bred to get 1m2f at least, but should have enough class to account for his rivals on this occasion, providing he is not ridden too far off the pace, a worrying theme in big races where Moore is concerned.
DURETTO (Newbury 2.20) has not won for over a year, but has run consistently well in some big middle-distance handicaps this season. Since scoring off a mark of 85 in good to soft ground at Ascot in September 2015, he has been runner-up in three valuable events, including on his penultimate start when short-headed by the progressive Muntahaa at Chester. As a result of is consistency, the Andrew Balding-trained four-year-old has been hiked 15lb in the weights but he still ran with credit when fifth in the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot three weeks ago. Although he has plenty still to find with Kings Fete (third) and Western Hymn (fourth) on that run, he has been knocking on the door and the trainer remains in fair form.
ADRIEN DU PONT (Cheltenham 3.00) does not face an easy task in attempting to give 8lb to Gibralfaro in the fascinating 2m hurdle where six runners are scheduled to line up. Only beaten once in four starts since joining Paul Nicholls (last December by Sceau Royal, who re-opposes), he subsequently landed the Grade 1 Future Champions Finale Juvenile Hurdle at Chepstow and signed off last term with success in a handicap hurdle for juveniles, taking apart a decent field at Ascot in April. With the likes of Wolf Of Windlesham and Leoncavallo opposing, it is a cracking little contest, but one that can see the selection winning on his seasonal debut.
GLITTER GIRL (Newbury 3.50) had the misfortune to bump into a high-class filly in Poet’s Vanity in the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket earlier this month. The winner is likely to head straight to the 1,000 Guineas next May, but the William Haggas-trained runner-up is no slouch herself, having progressed from her fair fourth to Spain Burg in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes previously. If repeating that level of form, she should be capable of landing the Listed 7f Radley Stakes, which the stable won last year with Light Music.
OTHER SELECTIONS:
DONCASTER: 1.35 Sennockian Star, 2.05 Timeless Flight, 2.40 Bogart, 3.15 Huge Future, 3.50 YUCATAN (NAP), 4.25 He’s My Cracker, 5.00 Andok, 5.35 Castle Harbour
CHELTENHAM: 1.50 Bucking The Trend, 2.25 Young Dillon, 3.00 Adrien Du Pont, 3.30 Always On The Run, 4.05 Eshtiaal, 4.40 Shantou Village, 5.15 River Wylde
NEWBURY: 1.15 Serenada, 1.45 Eaton Square, 2.20 Duretto (nb), 2.50 What About Carlo, 3.20 Glitter Girl, 3.55 Dynamic, 4.30 Admiralty Arch, 5.05 Clear Water
KELSO: 2.00 Brio Conti, 2.35 Ballyboker Breeze, 3.10 One For Arthur, 3.40 Another Bill, 4.15 Big River, 4.50 Brother Scott, 5.25 Louloumills
CHELMSFORD CITY: 5.30 Liberatum, 6.05 Sweet Sienna, 6.40 Not Touch, 7.10 Valley Of Fire, 7.40 Transmitting, 8.10 Work, 8.40 Lady Joanna Vassa, 9.10 Swanton Blue
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