Racing Lee has selected his top pick for Saturday's highly anticipated Sprint Cup at Haydock, along with an exciting long-shot that could offer value.
15:35 Haydock
A great race for the sprint series, with plenty of this season’s main protagonists lining up to create a strong field in this Group One.
Leading the way the year has been INISHERIN.
A three-time winner from his six career starts, he began on debut back in September last year with a strong runner-up performance to Bellum Justum, a recent Group Three winner.
He bolted up at Newcastle next-time out to earn himself a trip to the 2000 Guineas.
Sticking to the mile in those first three runs, he ran a huge race to be sixth, in a race littered with Grade One winners.
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Notable Speech won that English Guineas (since won G1 Sussex), Rossalion was second (since won G1 Irish Guineas and G1 St James’s Palace), Hattem was third (since won G3 Jersey and runner-up in G1 Irish Guineas), Ghostwriter was fourth (third in two G1s since), and also back to the ninth was no less than the Derby, Eclipse and Juddmonte winner - City Of Troy.
INISHERIN showed his class that day to feature prominently over the mile, but a drop back to sprinting looked on the cards.
This came in the Group Two Sandy Lane over course-and-distance next time out, which seen him blow his rivals away by over three widening lengths.
He was then sent off favourite for the Group One Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot on that back of that, and showed that great turn of foot to burst away and power to the line, beating some of Saturday’s rivals in the process.
He rallied when outpaced in the July Cup at Newmarket, but that July track at HQ may not have been his bag.
All said and done he hasn’t put much of a foot wrong in his short career, so he’s hard to desert in this race.
With some of the others having to step up to the Grade One table, he’s been there and done that on a course that suits, and he can hopefully add another Grade One to his tally.
Another that has taken my eye, and one I can’t let slip away at the prices is KIND OF BLUE (Tipped at 16/1).
Another lightly-raced Colt, who was a winner on debut in April, and bolted up at Doncaster on his second start.
He was behind INISHERIN in the Commonwealth Cup, but stayed on well after being upset pre-race.
He followed up by being beat a length by Elite Status in the Hackwood, and went to Ireland to run a head second to a GiveMeTheBeatBoys last time out.
James Fanshawe is having a great spell at present, and does so well with his sprinters, so KIND OF BLUE could surprise at an each-way price.
