Horse power: big mojo can win the sandy lane stakes at haydock park

Horse power: big mojo can win the sandy lane stakes at haydock park

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BIG MOJO can secure victory in the Betfred Sandy Lane Stakes (3pm) at Haydock Park on Saturday afternoon. While RUMSTAR can land the Group Two feature, the Betfred Temple Stakes (3.30pm).


Mick Appleby’s Big Mojo can seal another win and book his ticket to Royal Ascot and a crack at the Group One Commonwealth Cup. The three-year-old son of Mohaather showed some smart form


during his juvenile campaign last year, winning the Group Three Molecomb Stakes over five furlongs at the Glorious Goodwood Festival last July. Big Mojo was also fourth in the Gimcrack


Stakes over six furlongs at York; second in the Group Two Flyting Childers at Doncaster and a fine fourth in the Group One Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Del Mar on his final start in


November. Following wind surgery in February, Big Mojo returned to action with victory in the Group Three Commonwealth Cup Trial Stakes at Ascot and he looks a progressive young sprinter


who can score again. And he will be a big player back in Berkshire at the Royal meeting next month. Jonathan Portman’s RUMSTAR can win the Temple Stakes, the five-furlong feature of the


seven-race card at Haydock. The five-year-old had run well in some top sprint handicaps last year without winning. But he finally put it all together when scoring on his final start of the


campaign, beating Beautiful Diamond by two lengths in the Listed BetMGM Rous Stakes at Ascot in October. Despite being in rear early on he came through to score well having led in the final


furlong. He built on that success with an even better effort on his seasonal return in the Group Three Palace House Stakes at Newmarket at the start of the month. He had a couple of his


rivals at Haydock behind and he can confirm the form and add another victory at Haydock before potentially moving into Group One company for a crack at the King Charles III Stakes on the


opening day of the Royal meeting next month. Jim Goldie’s in-form, hat-trick-seeking AMERICAN AFFAIR and the Ed Walker-trained French import MGHEERA can also go well. But Rumstar should be


able to come out on top. Liverpool FC fan Burke’s OUR MIGHTY MO can win the Betfred Silver Bowl Handicap (Heritage Handicap) (1.50pm). The three-year-old, who won a Nursery Handicap over


seven furlongs at Haydock last October, has run reasonably well in two starts so far this season, finishing fourth at both Musselburgh and at the recent Boodles Chester May Festival. He


wasn’t beaten far on the Roodee and should still be improving. With those two runs to get him going again, Our Mighty Mo can book his ticket to Royal Ascot with victory in the prestigious


mile handicap back at Haydock. Charlie Appleby’s DIAMOND RAIN, to be ridden by Liverpool FC fan William Buick, can make a winning return to action in the Listed Betfred ‘Nifty 50’ British


EBF Hedge Of Oak Stakes (2.25pm). The four-year-old daughter of Shamardal won twice in four starts last season and although she disappointed when last of 12 in the Group Two Ribblesdale


Stakes at Royal Ascot, she ran well enough to be fourth on her final start of the season in a similar Listed contest at Doncaster. She still remains open to improvement, particularly at this


1m2f trip. Many of Appleby’s starters this season have hit the ground running and this looks an ideal place for Diamond Rain to get back on track. Tim Easterby’s CANDONOMORE can bring up a


hat-trick of wins this season with victory in the opener, the Betfred Supports Jack Berry House Hell Nook Handicap (1.15pm). The four-year-old gelded son of Almanzor has already won twice


over a mile at Wetherby and Leicester in the past month and he can score again. Willie Haggas’ MAELSTROM is another who has won both starts this season – at Yarmouth and over course and


distance last month – and the three-year-old can also bring up a treble in the Betfred ‘The Classic Bookmaker’ Edge Green Handicap (4.10pm). George Scott’s CABALLO DE MAR saw his run of five


victories come to an end in the Ladbrokes Chester Cup at the start of the month but he can return to winning ways in the CarFinance247 New Boston Handicap (GBBPlus Race) (4.45pm). The


four-year-old ran a fine race to be second to East India Dock in the Roodee feature, but dropped back slightly in trip to two miles and in a less competitive contest, he can get back on the


winning trail. At Beverley the unbeaten ALI SHUFFLE can make it four in a row in the Hilary Needler Trophy EBF Fillies’ Conditions Stakes (GBB Race) (2.10pm). Karl Burke’s two-year-old filly


scored over course and distance in April and followed up with a fine victory in the Lily Agnes EBF Conditions Stakes at Chester’s May Festival. She can go in again to book a trip to Royal


Ascot in the Group Two Queen Mary Stakes which Burke has won twice in the past three seasons with Dramatised (2022) and Leovanni last year. Burke stable-mate and debutant NAVAL LIGHT can


give him a juvenile double at Beverley in the bet365 Two Year Old Trophy EBF Conditions Stakes (2.45pm). Others who can score at the Yorkshire track are the Richard Fahey-trained duo MY


HARRISON GEORGE and LIFE ON THE ROCKS in the Never Ordinary At bet365 Handicap (3.20pm) and the Best Odds Guaranteed At bet365 Handicap (4.25pm) respectively; and David Loughnane’s course


and distance winner BILLYB in the bet365 Handicap (3.55pm). At Goodwood Ralph Beckett’s unbeaten AMILOC can land a fourth career win stepped up to an extended 1m3f for the first time in the


Listed British Stallion Studs EBF Cocked Hat Stakes (2.05pm). The once-raced Beckett stable-mate PERFECT YOUR CRAFT – who won at Salisbury over a mile last October – can also improve for the


step up in trip to take the Listed BetGoodwin Height Of Fashion Stakes (Fillies’) (3.15pm). Charlie Hills’ BOB MALI can take the opener, the BetGoodwin Harroways Handicap (1.30pm). While


others who can score at Goodwood are Archie Watson’s debutant BLUE NGURU in the James Reid 60th Birthday EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (GBB Race) (2.35pm); stable-mate CARADOS in the finale,


the Goodwood Horseracing Club Membership Handicap (4.55pm); and the John and Thady Gosden-trained recent Newmarket runner-up FRENCH MASTER in the BetGoodwin Download The App Handicap


(GBBPlus Race) (3.45pm). In Ireland at the Curragh Aidan O’Brien’s OFFICER can win the Group One Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas (No Geldings) (3.40pm), while stable-mate – Australian import


STORM BOY – can also score in the Group Two Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes (3.05pm). WRIGHT ONES HAYDOCK PARK 1.15pm Candonomore 1.50pm Our Mighty Mo 2.25pm Diamond Rain 3pm Big Mojo


(NAP) 3.30pm Rumstar 4.10pm Maelstrom 4.40pm Caballo De Mar GOODWOOD 1.30pm Bob Mali 2.05pm Amiloc 2.35pm Blue Nguru 3.15pm Perfect Your Craft 3.45pm French Master 4.20pm Mythical Bird


4.55pm Carados BEVERLEY 1.35pm Tarriance 2.10pm Ali Shuffle 2.45pm Naval Light 3.20pm My Harrison George 3.55pm Billyb 4.25pm Life On The Rocks 5pm Triple Force CATTERICK 1.40pm Champion


Again Ole 2.15pm Hype Merchant 2.50pm Red Force One 3.35pm Reservardo 4.05pm Irish Dancer 4.35pm Synergism 5.13pm Danzan WINDSOR 5.30pm Al Waseela 6pm Angel Of Anfield 6.30pm Maraaheb 7pm


Fleetwater 7.35pm Strike 8.05pm Phaedra 8.35pm Newfangled SALISBURY 4.45pm Sands Of Spain 5.20pm Billy Mill 5.50pm Stanhope Gardens 6.20pm Realign 6.50pm Jarraaf 7.20pm Key Witness 7.50pm


Babylon 8.20pm Robusto CURRAGH 3.05pm Storm Boy 3.40pm Officer 4.15pm Orandi SUNDAY'S NAP: Lake Victoria (Curragh 3.40pm)